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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says Midnight is being built by more than a dozen companies

Hoskinson said the privacy-focused project is also working with the Linux Foundation and participates in the Confidential Computing Consortium alongside NVIDIA.

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Summary

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said Midnight, a Cardano-linked privacy-focused blockchain project, is under development by more than a dozen companies. He also said the project is working with the Linux Foundation and is involved in the Confidential Computing Consortium (industry group for secure data processing) as a member alongside NVIDIA. The update points to a broader effort to connect blockchain development with privacy-preserving computing infrastructure and open-source industry collaboration.

Terms & Concepts
  • Confidential computing: A security approach that protects data while it is being processed, often by using hardware-based trusted execution environments.
  • Blockchain: A distributed digital ledger that records transactions across a network of computers without relying on a central authority.
  • Linux Foundation: A nonprofit technology organization that supports open-source software development and industry collaboration.