Rays of Sunshine in 2026

Reframes the toughest year of his life, wanting to talk about the good news instead of the frustration of recent videos.

Cardano and Midnight are leading the market for the first time in a long time, and it feels right.

Contrasts Aleo, well funded with 300 million from Coinbase and A16Z, yet doing only about 5.8 million in trading volume.

Compares the market caps and volumes of Eli Ben-Sasson's StarkNet, zkSync, and Mina against Midnight's billion dollar cap.

Asks why Midnight leads despite rivals backed by Naval Ravikant, A16Z, and Vitalik Buterin: because people know it is genuinely different.

Argues a new generation wants a reset, and Midnight is not a privacy coin but a platform for intents, hybrid applications, and multi resource consensus.

Midnight could run trillions in transactions and was given away to the people across eight ecosystems and seven chains, with no ICO and VCs shut out.

Previews Japan and Hong Kong not even turned on yet, plus tier one stablecoin, bridge, and oracle integrations including the just announced Pyth.

Calls this the fourth and final generation that solves crypto, bringing retail in and collapsing DeFi and TradFi into just Fi.

Rejects that Midnight kills Cardano, arguing it will 10x Cardano DeFi by offering privacy people cannot get on Solana or Ethereum.

Sees the opening in private prediction markets, private dexes, and private stablecoins, and Bitcoin DeFi users wanting a private DEX.

You beat the BlackBerry with multi touch, not a better keyboard: win by doing new things, not better, faster, cheaper.

Claims Coinbase will not list Midnight because it invested in Aleo, even though it loses about 20 million a year in trading fees.

Recalls the January 2014 Ethereum house and sees the same passion in the Midnight community, which makes every other chain better.

Plans to travel Japan from Hokkaido to Okinawa to rally old friends who bought in early and now sit on a large ecosystem.

Lays out the rollout: Cardano Midnight first, then Midnight on Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and Bitcoin, each payable in that chain's token.

The market cap holds despite just launching because people know it is a mission, not just another token, after being rugged by the US president.

Vents fatigue with memecoin and NFT mania and wants people proud to tell their family at Christmas that they work in crypto.

Declares the third generation dead and the fourth here: rational privacy, selective disclosure, and cooperation to bring in the next two billion.

Aims to march the Midnight Discord from 1.5 million Night token holders to 10 then 100 million, wanting hard KPIs that the industry improved.

Rallies the Cardano army, XRP nation, Bitcoiners, and Ethereum people to set aside grievances, noting the pentad now works together.

Promises a world tour, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, Germany, Argentina and more, winning people over by making their own chain better.

Reddit cynics and Coffeezilla followers to build on Midnight instead of complaining, caring only about use, utility, and consumption.

He spent hundreds of millions over six years assembling technology from Zcash, Aptos, Polkadot, and Near like the Borg.

Rails against bankers and 338 trillion in global debt heading toward 500 trillion, and a bifurcated economy facing humanoid robots.

Issues the 2026 rally cry: join the Midnight Discord at midnight.network, build on the testnet, and become an ambassador.

Wants 10 trillion in real world assets by 2035 mostly on Midnight: private dexes, prediction markets, medical records, and an AI control layer, not left to Sam Altman.

Credits zkSync, StarkNet, Aleo, and Mina but says Midnight is the first to pull the whole package together, the chatGPT of privacy.