The Midnight Foundation has signed a definitive agreement with AlphaTON Capital to integrate its zero-knowledge blockchain into the TON ecosystem.
The partnership will enable privacy-preserving AI agents on Telegram through “Cocoon AI,” allowing users to keep financial and personal data confidential.
The native NIGHT token fell 5.7% in the last 24 hours to $0.058, amid a broader cooling period for privacy-centric assets.
Midnight, the privacy-focused blockchain developed by Input Output and Charles Hoskinson, is moving to capture Telegram’s massive user base through a strategic partnership with AlphaTON Capital. The agreement, announced this week, marks the first-to-market integration of a zero-knowledge (ZK) blockchain with the TON ecosystem. The collaboration aims to provide a “privacy layer” for Telegram’s emerging AI infrastructure, specifically the Cocoon AI platform, which facilitates automated tasks like shopping and financial management.
Under the terms of the deal, AlphaTON Capital will operate one of Midnight’s ten federated nodes, providing the computational backbone for decentralized, privacy-first AI. The integration leverages Midnight’s programmable privacy features, ensuring that while AI agents process user requests, the underlying messages, credentials, and financial metadata remain invisible to third parties, including Telegram and the developers themselves. This move comes as Midnight enters its Kūkolu phase, a development milestone signifying a stable network environment for decentralized applications (dApps).
Despite the high-profile partnership, the project’s native token, NIGHT, has faced short-term sell pressure. At the time of writing, NIGHT is trading at approximately $0.058, down nearly 6% over the past 24 hours. This decline follows a volatile week for the privacy sector, where established assets like Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC) have also seen pullbacks. However, the token recently gained significant liquidity through a listing on the social trading platform eToro, which expanded access to over 35 million registered users.
“The next great leap for the internet isn’t more speed or more content, it’s the restoration of personal agency,” said Charles Hoskinson, founder of Midnight. “Utility should not come at the expense of privacy, and this integration demonstrates that ZK-proofs can scale to meet the demands of a billion-user ecosystem.”
Looking ahead, the Midnight roadmap includes the Mōhalu and Hua phases scheduled for the second and third quarters of 2026. these updates are expected to introduce hybrid dApps, which will allow Midnight’s privacy features to be embedded into other chains, including Cardano and Ethereum, further expanding the utility of the NIGHT token beyond the TON integration.
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