Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson shares a teaser in a tweet as Midnight approaches its mainnet launch.
In a latest tweet, Hoskinson requested, “Who's prepared for Midnight?” The Cardano founder's X publish was accompanied by a brief video clip of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's iconic 2013 efficiency aboard the Worldwide House Station (ISS), edited/edited for over 5 minutes.
Who's prepared for Midnight? pic.twitter.com/hlMR0lPWbG
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) March 23, 2026
David Bowie's music “House Oddity” was carried out, carried out by Hadfield as a canopy, and is taken into account to be the well-known “first music video recorded in house.”
The video exhibits Hadfield floating in zero gravity, looking on the Earth by way of a cupola window, taking part in an acoustic guitar and singing the music, with the Canadian House Company (CSA/ASC) emblem seen in a number of photographs.
The Cardano founder's tweet sparks anticipation because the launch of the Midnight mainnet is anticipated to be introduced later this month.
Yesterday, Cardano builder Enter Output Group upped the ante with a tweet suggesting the Midnight Mainnet launch might occur as early as this week. “Midnight. This week,” Enter Output Group wrote in a March 22 tweet.
On March seventeenth, Cardano builders raised expectations by tweeting that “Midnight mainnet is coming.”
Midnight's value has elevated by 12% previously 24 hours, according to expectations for the mainnet launch. On the time of writing, the NIGHT token was up 11.26% to $0.047.
The Midnight Community Grows
Midnight's community of federated node operators continues to develop in the direction of mainnet.
Midnight Basis lately introduced that Worldpay and Bullish will function Midnight's federated nodes.
To make sure stability throughout the Kōkolu section of the roadmap, Midnight mainnet might be expanded to incorporate federated node operators, who will collectively function the protocol beneath clear guidelines for participation and coordination.
Constructing on an preliminary listing of companions together with Google Cloud, Blockdaemon, Shielded Applied sciences, and AlphaTON, Midnight Basis introduced the addition of paired factors with Vodafone and etoro in February.
