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Today is Aligned's official TGE!

At 11:00 PM Beijing time tonight, Aligned's $ALIGN will officially begin trading, and the community will also be able to start claiming allocations. The total supply is 10 billion tokens, with the initial circulating amount at approximately 16% at TGE.

What Aligned has been doing all along is to turn Ethereum into the underlying settlement network for global finance.

They provide an all-in-one tool stack, including Proof Aggregation, Rollup-as-a-Service, and Wallet-as-a-Service, enabling fintech companies, institutions, and developers to build services on Ethereum more easily—such as remittances, new banks, stablecoin payments, and digital identity—while avoiding pitfalls and reducing the need to integrate a bunch of fragmented services.

From the original EigenLayer AVS proof verification layer to today’s complete full-stack product, the team has taken it step by step, milestone by milestone. $ALIGN will be used in the future to pay for these services, truly getting the ecosystem running.

For the community airdrop: the Genesis Drop accounts for 8.74% of the total allocation, with approximately 44.36% unlocked at TGE. Small allocations (≤10,000 tokens) are fully unlocked, while larger ones receive the first 10,000 tokens up front, with the remainder released linearly. Remember to verify eligibility on the official community page, beware of scams, and only trust official channels.

The contract has been deployed on the Ethereum mainnet and Base. This moment is a day of fulfilling promises for all early supporters, ZK contributors, and those who’ve contributed to Ethereum.

For Ethereum to become the world’s finance back end, $ALIGN is a key piece of the puzzle.

Today, the story truly begins.

Niulaisi’s market cap has already reached 40 million.
For friends who haven’t bought yet, I don’t recommend chasing it anymore.
The value-for-money is too low.

Let me give you a few examples:
Mubarak, Broccoli714, and TST that bought into the spot
their market cap is only around 15 million.
Freedom of Money and me, “ta ma lai le,” that bought into Alpha
their market caps are 4 million and 9 million respectively.

All of them are waiting for cz’s reply or for Alpha to distribute/sell.

I don’t believe he’ll be the next Binance life story.

How does everyone have an invitation to the Hong Kong Carnival?

Is there any project party or exchange that can also send me one?
I promise not to go to the scene
And I will tweet for free

I successfully pretended
You gain exposure
A win-win situation

EOS three waves finished
The price reached 0.5 yuan

Why build two roads, yet only allow half the cars to run?

Today during the morning rush hour, while hailing a taxi and observing the immovable deep red on the map, I suddenly realized why in the architecture design of @MidnightNetwork k, it is necessary to separate privacy and public transactions so distinctly.

Many people look at the white paper of $NIGHT , and their first reaction is: why complicate data processing so much? Isn't it better to run everything in one pool?

In fact, this is akin to urban planning rationale. If a road has both reckless dump trucks (high-frequency arbitrage robots) and slow-moving water trucks (basic transfers), as well as discreet private cars (private transactions), the result is that no one can drive fast, and everything that happens is clearly visible to onlookers.

1. Physical "separation of residence and work"

The core design of Midnight is to avoid a "one-size-fits-all" approach. It uses Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs to perform complex calculations off-chain, recording only the results on-chain.

- Off-chain computation: akin to loading goods in your own garage.
- On-chain verification: like a traffic officer giving a quick glance at your pass when you hit the road, confirming you’re not overloaded before letting you through.

This "asymmetrical" design essentially shifts the system's pressure off that narrow "consensus highway".

2. 50% utilization rate "tidal lanes"

The 50% target utilization rate you mentioned is actually called "service level" in traffic studies. When a road reaches 100% capacity, even if someone in front brakes, it can trigger ghost traffic jams lasting several kilometers.

- The half space reserved by $NIGHT is its tidal lane.
- When market hotspots arise and trading volume doubles instantly, these "reserves" will quickly engage, ensuring that the network doesn’t freeze normal users' transfers just because of a few trending projects.

3. Dynamic pricing: no flagging, watch the traffic lights

The accompanying dynamic pricing mechanism is essentially an electronic fence pricing strategy.

- When the road is empty, tolls drop to very low levels, encouraging everyone to run.
- When the road starts to get crowded, the price signal automatically rises. This is not just for profit; it’s to allow those "not in a hurry" water trucks (low-value arbitrage) to choose to run late at night, leaving the daytime golden lanes for truly urgent private transactions.
#night $NIGHT

Received Musk's salary
77 USD
About 500 RMB

There haven't been many posts in the past half month
I also know that posting more is necessary
But where do so many ideas and thoughts come from in a day?

A couple is sitting in a café, quietly discussing post-marriage financial planning, health data sharing, or shared investment dreams. They yearn for intimacy but worry that any information will be permanently exposed on the blockchain—this is a real concern for countless modern couples. Midnight Network brings professional and pragmatic solutions from this unprecedented perspective of intimacy.

As a fourth-generation blockchain, @MidnightNetwork focuses on "rational privacy," utilizing recursive zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) and a TypeScript-style Compact smart contract language that allows developers to quickly build decentralized applications that protect sensitive business and personal data. Users can precisely control disclosures: proving sufficient funds without revealing specific amounts, or verifying credibility without exposing complete records, thus achieving selective transparency.

It safeguards threefold freedoms—association, commerce, and expression, making privacy the default setting rather than an additional cost. The testnet is live, governed long-term by the Midnight Foundation, and the mainnet is about to launch, with the NIGHT token driving ecosystem growth. This is not abstract technology but a reliable foundation that allows couples to confidently build their future in the Web3 era.

Rational privacy is quietly reshaping trust in the digital age.
#night $NIGHT

Have you ever had this feeling? In the morning, transferring money on your phone, buying a cup of coffee in the afternoon, playing a DeFi game in the evening—each click feels like writing your life trajectory in a public diary. Others can easily check and see your spending habits, cash flow, and even potential business secrets.

The digital age should be free, yet it often makes people feel 'watched.' This is the awkwardness of most blockchains: transparent like a glass house, yet forgetting that we need a bit of private space. @MidnightNetwork does not bring the sci-fi dream of 'complete invisibility,' but a truly relatable 'rational privacy.' It uses zero-knowledge proof technology to allow developers to easily write smart contracts that protect data—you can prove 'I paid' or 'I meet the conditions' without laying all the details bare in the sunlight.

Imagine this: companies use it to build supply chain systems, sensitive contracts remain undisclosed; ordinary people engage in DeFi financial management, and transaction records are visible only to themselves and regulators; developers use familiar TypeScript language, implementing selective disclosure with just a few lines of code. It's not about sacrificing performance for privacy, but achieving both while complying with regulatory requirements. Testnet has already launched, the mainnet is approaching, and the NIGHT token has just received support from Binance, with airdrop and listing news allowing more people to participate directly.

Midnight is not a high-tech showcase, but a means to help us take back control of our daily digital lives. Data is no longer someone else's bargaining chip, but your personal belongings. Want to give it a try? Visit the official website midnight.network, perhaps the next app that protects your privacy starts here.
#night $NIGHT

I just realized that A-Feng has been increasing his position in Clutch.

Another privacy project has been discovered.

Unlike traditional privacy coins that simply 'hide everything', Midnight offers 'rational privacy': not completely opaque nor fully transparent, but allowing you to precisely control 'how much to reveal and to whom'. It implements programmable privacy using zero-knowledge proofs (ZK), enabling developers to write smart contracts that selectively disclose information only when necessary. For example, proving 'I have sufficient funds' without showing the balance, or proving 'compliance' without exposing the entire transaction history. This kind of 'just enough' privacy is particularly suitable for real-world business scenarios: financial DeFi needs to prevent prying yet pass regulatory audits, medical data sharing needs to be confidential yet verifiable, and identity systems need to prevent leaks while avoiding fraud.

Interestingly, it is not an isolated project, but the first official partner chain of Cardano, heavily endorsed by IOG (the team behind Cardano) and Charles Hoskinson. The mainnet has not fully launched yet, but the Testnet is already live, and the concept demo of Midnight City runs a 'living city' directly on the chain using AI agents—thousands of autonomous AI characters engaging in real transactions and interactions, used to stress-test the feasibility of large-scale privacy implementation, quite sci-fi yet pragmatic.

The token model is also unique: $NIGHT is a public governance + utility token (fixed at 2.4 billion), used for staking, governance, and paying for gas fees; the truly hidden aspect of privacy is consumed using DUST (privacy resources), automatically generated during transactions, realizing a dual-track system of 'public token + privacy execution'. Recently, Binance directly launched HODLer airdrop + NIGHT spot, with circulating market value at one point surging to over 1 billion, indicating that the market's expectation for 'compliance-friendly privacy' is heating up.

In summary: @MidnightNetwork Midnight is not selling privacy, but rather selling a kind of 'adjustable, auditable, and commercially viable' privacy infrastructure. If Web3 is to enter enterprises, institutions, and high-value scenarios, purely Monero-style full privacy or Ethereum-style full transparency won't go far—Midnight's 'intermediate state' may well be the next generation of killer narrative.
#night $NIGHT