Privacy on this networkCardano is a public blockchain network. Confidentiality on Cardano: Privacy via the Midnight sidechain.
Cardano's privacy answer is Midnight, a separate partner chain that reached federated mainnet in March 2026 with a dual ledger, ZK proofs and selective disclosure. It is not Cardano mainnet, and it is not yet permissionless: nodes are operated by a named federation while decentralization is phased in. Attention and adoption have been quiet since launch.
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- Privacy via the Midnight sidechain
Private by design.
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