Cardano Founder Confirms Google Collaboration On Midnight
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has confirmed a brand new collaboration between Midnight—Cardano’s privacy-focused associate chain—and Google Cloud, framing it as a strategic step to harden the community’s infrastructure and speed up developer adoption. “Proud to be working with Google on Midnight. They are a beautiful firm and add a ton of worth to our ecosystem,” the Cardano founder wrote on X, amplifying Midnight’s announcement and a same-day weblog publish from the venture.
Google Is Now Part Of Cardano’s Midnight
In a September 30, 2025 post, Midnight mentioned the Midnight Foundation has launched a “strategic collaboration” with Google Cloud “for enterprise-grade safety and infrastructure and to broaden group instruments and sources,” positioning zero-knowledge expertise as “important infrastructure for next-generation digital techniques.” The announcement situates Midnight’s core thesis—selective disclosure and privacy-preserving computation—inside a compliance-aware structure aimed toward establishments dealing with delicate information.
The scope of labor is unusually concrete for a cloud–blockchain tie-up. According to Midnight, Google Cloud will “function crucial community infrastructure, together with working a validator for Midnight,” and can convey its Mandiant division’s risk monitoring and incident-response capabilities to the community.
Midnight additionally says it would leverage Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing to take away operators from the belief boundary and harden in opposition to provider-level entry, signaling an try and bind zero-knowledge proofs with hardware-enforced isolation. “The way forward for enterprise purposes requires each transparency and privateness,” mentioned Richard Widmann, Head of Web3 Strategy and Operations at Google Cloud. “By offering scalable infrastructure, we’re enabling builders to experiment with progressive zero data frameworks to confirm transactions with out exposing delicate information.”
Midnight framed the collaboration as an accelerant for real-world use instances which have traditionally struggled on clear public chains. Fahmi Syed, President of the Midnight Foundation, argued that “Midnight transforms privateness from a technical barrier right into a aggressive benefit, enabling confidential monetary techniques, verifiable digital id, and safe purposes that may function at scale with regulatory compliance inbuilt.”
The weblog publish factors to selective-disclosure patterns for monetary establishments (non-public buying and selling and compliant cross-border funds), credential issuance for governments, and privacy-preserving data-sharing in healthcare as early targets.
On the developer entrance, Midnight mentioned initiatives constructing on the community can apply to the Google for Startups Web3 Program, with “as much as $200,000 in Google Cloud Platform Credits over two years,” plus coaching and mentorship—an more and more customary incentive package deal in cloud-supported web3 ecosystems however notable for a privacy-centric L1. Midnight’s personal publish and social messages additionally emphasize that the Google Cloud collaboration contains assist for group tooling and expanded sources, indicating a bid to spur third-party app development round Midnight’s zero-knowledge stack.
Hoskinson’s endorsement underscores the partner-chain strategy that Cardano entities have superior this yr, with Midnight often described because the lead privateness chain in that mannequin. While the announcement stops in need of monetary phrases or service-level ensures, it commits Google Cloud to an operational function on the community—validator operations and safety providers—past advertising or co-branding, and gives direct quotes from each organizations that anchor the collaboration in concrete infrastructure and safety deliverables.
At press time, Cardano (ADA) traded at $0.80.
