Yesterday Charles Hoskinson surprised the community with a rather mysterious tweet: "Who is ready for Midnight?". The founder of Cardano accompanied the message with an audio of "Ground Control to Major Tom" recorded at the International Space Station, which sparked quite a bit of speculation about the imminent launch of the privacy project.

Midnight, developed by Input Output Global, promises to revolutionize programmable privacy through zero-knowledge proofs, maintaining regulatory compliance. The project already has heavyweight partners like Google, Bullish, and Worldpay operating federated nodes. Charles Hoskinson and his team have been working on this for years, and it seems the mainnet is just around the corner, probably before the end of the month.

What’s interesting is how the market is reacting. The NIGHT token trades around $0.04 with a market capitalization of about $616 million. Although it has moved in the last few hours with a +0.21% change in 24 hours, the real test will be when Charles Hoskinson officially announces the launch. Those who have been following this project for some time are watching for any signal. Hoskinson’s crypto movement suggests something big is coming.