[Cardano Founder: Privacy-Focused Midnight Blockchain to Launch in March] According to CoinDesk, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson announced at the Consensus Hong Kong conference that the long-developed privacy blockchain Midnight will officially launch during the last week of March, operating as a partner chain of Cardano. Midnight is based on zero-knowledge proof technology and adopts a 'selective disclosure' privacy model: user transaction data is kept private by default and only specific information is disclosed to authorized parties when necessary. This design aims to balance blockchain privacy protection with compliance requirements, supporting different levels of data access views for public, audit, and regulatory purposes. Hoskinson revealed that Google and Telegram have already joined the collaboration. The accompanying Midnight City Simulation testing platform will be open to the public on February 26, using AI agents to simulate real transaction environments and verify the network's proof generation and processing capabilities in large-scale scenarios.