Charles Hoskinson has argued that Cardano\u2019s Midnight network will eventually eclipse Zcash, citing developments including private agents, selective disclosure, and a DeFi kernel designed to work across major chains.<\/p>\n
His claim comes as Zcash trades far above its level from a year ago, while Midnight\u2019s NIGHT token remains nearly 78% below its all-time high.<\/p>\n
In a September 28 post on X, Hoskinson quoted<\/a> ratings provider Weiss Crypto, which had earlier suggested that NIGHT has a good chance of becoming \u201cone of the best plays of the next 24 months.\u201d\u00a0He contended that Midnight will be \u201cbigger than Zcash,\u201d then laid out what the privacy-focused blockchain developed by Input Output, the same team behind Cardano, has got going for it.<\/p>\n \u201cSelective disclosure, Private Agents, abstraction with a DeFi Kernel for all major chains,\u201d wrote the developer.<\/p>\n He also mentioned three privacy techniques the network was working on, including zero-knowledge proofs, trusted execution environments, and multi-party computations, and linked Midnight\u2019s planned architecture to Cardano\u2019s 24\/7 network uptime and the Leios upgrade.<\/p>\n The market data currently shows a wide gap between the two assets. NIGHT was trading near $0.027 at the time of writing, up over 2% in the last 24 hours and more than 9% in the past week. It also gained close to 30% across a fortnight and well over 36% in 30 days.<\/p>\n Zcash, meanwhile, was trading at around $1,600, an almost 7% dip in 24 hours, although it was up over 2% across seven days and nearly 36% over two weeks. The privacy coin\u2019s one-month run was also better than NIGHT\u2019s, after it gained 93% in that period, while remaining 2,660% higher than where it was a year ago.<\/p>\n Midnight is sitting about 77.5% below its record of close to $0.12 from December 9, 2025, while ZEC is about 51% under its own ATH of $3,191.<\/p>\n Looking at trading volume, it is about $14 million for NIGHT, an increase of 43% from one day ago, against roughly $1 billion for ZEC, which represents a 24% drop from what changed hands yesterday.<\/p>\n NIGHT fell<\/a> more than 43% on July 21 to record a low near $0.016 after 290 million tokens were dumped in the market following a withdrawal from a Wanchain bridge contract, with the Midnight Foundation stating that the network was not hacked.<\/p>\n On its part, Zcash topped<\/a> $1,600 last week for the first time since 2016, then slid as the wider market fell, with analyst Crypto Patel arguing that a cup-and-handle pattern suggests the $1,600 to $2,000 range could be a local top, with a drop<\/a> below $500 possible within one to three years.<\/p>\n The post Cardano\u2019s NIGHT Will Be Bigger Than Zcash: Charles Hoskinson<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Charles Hoskinson has argued that Cardano\u2019s Midnight network will eventually eclipse Zcash, citing developments including private agents, selective disclosure, and a DeFi kernel designed to work across major chains. His claim comes as Zcash trades far above its level from a year ago, while Midnight\u2019s NIGHT token remains nearly 78% below its all-time high. Midnight\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mixed Fortunes for NIGHT and ZEC<\/h2>\n