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Sunsetting the ULTRA ISPO: Refunds, Pool Fees and What Comes Next
The ULTRA ISPO did not raise enough to fund Facility 2, so we are closing it, returning the pool to normal fees and refunding the ADA it earned to the delegators who earned it.
Nightframes: Charles Hoskinson's Pitch for What Comes After the Smart Contract
At TOKEN2049 and Midnight City Tokyo, Charles Hoskinson called today's smart contracts "pretty dumb" and introduced Nightframes: private computation on Midnight, built for a world of AI agents. Here is what we know so far.
Crypto News Roundup: Hoskinson at the UN, Midnight Goes Permissionless, and the SEC and CFTC Step In
Charles Hoskinson makes the case for exponential crypto adoption at the United Nations, Midnight opens mainnet to every developer as NIGHT more than doubles, and US regulators move after the Clarity Act stalls.
Crypto News Roundup: June 27, 2026
Bitcoin broke below $60K and touched its lowest level since September 2024, capping a brutal June. Plus the Ethereum Foundation slashes staff and budget, Binance exits Europe over MiCA, and the first Fannie Mae crypto mortgage goes live.
Crypto News Roundup: June 23, 2026
The US-Iran deal clawed back from the brink with an oil license and frozen-fund talks, yet Bitcoin sold off toward $62K on risk-asset profit-taking. Plus ETF outflows grind on, whales keep buying, and Cardano's Leios testnet went live today.
Cardano Is Shipping at Record Speed While Its Price Sits at a Five-Year Low
ADA sits near a five-year low while Cardano's developers log record activity, the Leios scaling testnet launches June 23, and Midnight runs live on mainnet. Is the widest dev-price gap in Cardano history a setup or a value trap?
Crypto News Roundup: June 15, 2026
Bitcoin pushed past $66K and tagged $67.3K as the US-Iran deal held with a signing set for Friday. Telegram's Gram ticker goes live today, and Kevin Warsh chairs his first Fed meeting tomorrow.
Cardano and Midnight at the Lows: Capitulation or Setup?
ADA just hit a four-year low under 16 cents, the founder logged off mid-crisis, and the governance model is buckling in public. Meanwhile Midnight approaches its final hard fork. An honest look at both.
Crypto News Roundup: June 2, 2026
Bitcoin slides under $68K as Extreme Fear returns, the CLARITY Act races a July 4 deadline, Hyperliquid keeps printing all-time highs, Telegram brings back the Gram name, and Cardano's governance fight boils over.
Crypto News Roundup: May 25, 2026
Bitcoin tests $74K and bounces. Nasdaq gets SEC approval for cash-settled BTC index options. Tether and Georgia launch a sovereign Lari stablecoin. Hyperliquid hits all-time highs. And 75% of Bitcoin hashrate just adopted Stratum V2.
Crypto News Roundup: May 22, 2026
Bitcoin ETFs shed over $1B this week as Treasury yields squeeze sentiment. Telegram commits to becoming TON's largest validator backer. The CLARITY Act clears Senate Banking 15-9. Blockchain.com files its S-1. And inside the Cardano governance debate threatening IOG research funding.
Crypto News Roundup: May 15, 2026
Bitcoin retreats from $82K as CLARITY Act ethics fight shapes floor vote, Moody's awards AAA to BlackRock and Fidelity tokenized funds, and Stratum V2 hits 75% of global hashrate.
Crypto's Quantum Clock Is Ticking: Who's Protected and Who Isn't
Google's March 2026 paper cut the timeline for breaking Bitcoin's cryptography by 20x. Here is what the quantum threat actually means for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, and Midnight, which chains are already protected, and why 2029 is the date everyone should know.
You're Not Too Late for Bitcoin. Here's the Evidence.
Every year since 2011, someone has said they missed Bitcoin. Every year they were wrong. Here's a data-driven look at where we actually are in this cycle, and why the biggest gains may still be ahead.
Cardano's Leios Protocol Explained: How 1,000 TPS Changes Everything
Cardano's current consensus processes roughly 10 transactions per second. Ouroboros Leios is the upgrade designed to change that by an order of magnitude, and the community just backed it with a $46.8M treasury allocation. Here's what it actually does and when it arrives.
Crypto News Roundup: May 3, 2026
Bitcoin holds above $78K as miners pivot to AI infrastructure, Cardano governance hits a critical deadline, Midnight consolidates post-mainnet, and institutional ETF flows stay strong. Here's the week in crypto.
The KYC Problem Midnight Might Actually Solve
Businesses collect your passport, your selfie, your bank statements, and then store them forever in databases that get hacked. Midnight's zero-knowledge architecture suggests a different path: prove you're KYC'd without anyone ever holding your data. Here's how it might work, and what still stands in the way.
Ultra Labs: Minería de Bitcoin, Staking de ADA y el Token $ULTRA: Guía Completa
Ultra Labs es una empresa de minería de Bitcoin e infraestructura cripto con sede en EE.UU. Aquí encontrarás todo lo que necesitas saber sobre nuestros Nexus Miners, el pool de staking ULTRA en Cardano y cómo ganar $ULTRA a través del ISPO en Midnight Network.
Crypto News Roundup: May 2, 2026
Bitcoin difficulty dropped -3.07% today as block times slowed heading into May. IOG seeks $46.8M for Leios. Hoskinson hints at Bitcoin DeFi on Midnight. BTC near $77K, ADA $0.25, NIGHT $0.033. Here is what matters this week.
ADA 101: Delegate and Start Earning Cardano Staking Rewards
Cardano staking is one of the simplest ways to earn passive yield in crypto. You keep control of your ADA, you can unstake at any time, and rewards compound automatically every epoch. Here is exactly how to do it and what to expect.
Crypto News Roundup: April 30, 2026
The Fed held rates in the most divided FOMC vote in three decades. Bitcoin slipped below $76K. ADA failed to reclaim its 50-day EMA. NIGHT softened near $0.032. Here is what mattered this week.
Midnight Network Deep Dive: ZK Proofs and the Privacy Problem Institutions Actually Have
Midnight mainnet is live. Google Cloud, Vodafone, MoneyGram, and eToro are already running nodes. Here is what the privacy layer actually does, why institutions need it, and what comes next.
The Institutional Tokenization Wave Is Here. Here Is Where Cardano Stands.
BlackRock's BUIDL fund has crossed $1.9 billion on Ethereum. Tokenized RWAs just hit $27.6 billion globally. ADA futures are live on CME. A Cardano-settled reinsurance product is listed on the London Stock Exchange. And Midnight's mainnet just launched with Google Cloud and Vodafone as validators. Here is what the data actually says.
Midnight Network Launch Week!
After years of development and anticipation, the Midnight Network is ready for launch.
Announcing Ultra Labs and $ULTRA on Midnight
Cardania is now Ultra Labs, a Web3 studio building Bitcoin mining, AI agents, and gaming powered by renewables and Cardano. We’re launching the $ULTRA ISPO (delegate to the ULTRA stakepool), honoring $RAD holders, opening Nexus Miner mints, and hosting a New Year's Eve livestream.