A Dark Pool Nobody Can Front-Run 🛠

On public DeFi markets, visible orders can expose trading activity before settlement, creating opportunities for front-running.

$JUP routes a large share of Solana's order flow, and every trade it fills lands on a public ledger, readable for anyone the moment it settles.

$XMR holders have paid a premium for a decade to avoid that kind of visibility, keeping a committed base through repeated exchange delistings.

But hiding a payment and hiding a position are different problems, and an order book needs the second.

That is what teams are building on Midnight right now, across four categories:

• An institutional dark-pool DEX
• Identity and KYC tooling
• Private voting
• Real-world asset tokenization

Behind them the Night Sky Accelerator gives teams a ten-week of support to bring privacy-enabled applications to market and connect with investors.

A privacy layer earns its position when the order book, the vote and the identity check all run on it without exposing any of them.

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