2025-12-24 13:23:55

HOSKINSON CLARIFIES: ADA REMAINS CARDANO'S CORE, NIGHT ISN'T A REPLACEMENT

Charles Hoskinson pushes back on a common misconception—ditching ADA for NIGHT completely misses what's actually happening. Let's break it down.

NIGHT powers Midnight, Cardano's privacy-focused sidechain network. It's built to *complement* the ecosystem, not cannibalize it. Think of it as expansion, not succession.

The distinction matters: NIGHT brings privacy capabilities and specialized functions to Cardano's infrastructure. But ADA? That remains the backbone. These aren't competing tokens fighting for dominance—they're designed to work together, each serving different purposes within the broader Cardano architecture.

It's a common trap in crypto: seeing new tokens as zero-sum replacements. The reality is more nuanced. Cardano's strategy is ecosystem expansion through layered functionality, not token succession.

ADA-1.68%

NIGHT-2.8%

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GasFeeNightmare

· 4h ago

Playing the ecological narrative game again... It's nice to call it complementary, but frankly, isn't it just ADA unable to handle the workload and passing it to NIGHT? Anyway, I don't believe it. When I was monitoring late at night, I calculated that NIGHT's gas costs are 20% lower than ADA. No one in the crypto circle would pass up a cheaper option.

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GateUser-00be86fc

· 4h ago

Here comes the fact-checking again, Old Cha was right... NIGHT is just a tool for privacy, not here to disrupt ADA's livelihood.

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OPsychology

· 4h ago

Here we go again? Every time a new coin comes out, retail investors panic, fearing that ADA is going to be finished. NIGHT is just NIGHT, a privacy feature, so why does it have to be a choice between the two...

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SandwichDetector

· 4h ago

Haha, here comes the fact-checking again. NIGHT is not here to compete for ADA's market share, and this needs to be clarified. It's basically just an extension of the ecosystem, with privacy features developed separately, so there's nothing to overthink. Many people just overcomplicate things, insisting on viewing it as a zero-sum game...

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FarmHopper

· 4h ago

ngl, this set of rhetoric sounds pretty familiar... Every time a new coin comes out, they say it's "complementary" not "substituting," but in the end, it's all about who can attract more traffic.

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AirdropHunter

· 4h ago

Here we go again with this set. NIGHT supplementing ADA is not about replacement; many people still don't understand. Cardano is about layering functionality, not a chaotic token battle.

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GamefiHarvester

· 5h ago

Coming to clarify again? It's clear that quite a few people have been led astray... NIGHT is just the quarantine zone, ADA is the main base. Have you understood this point?

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