On the Cardano neighborhood X account, Cardanians highlight the most recent milestone achieved by Cardano native token Midnight (NIGHT).
NIGHT noticed about $9 billion in buying and selling quantity during the last 24 hours. In accordance with a screenshot posted by Cardanians, NIGHT ranked because the fourth-most-traded cryptocurrency, after Tether, Bitcoin and Ethereum, to surpass different main cryptocurrencies, together with XRP, USDC and Solana.
“NIGHT is now as much as $9B buying and selling quantity previously 24 hours. Cardano Native Asset making numbers, good to see,” Cardanians wrote in its tweet.
At press time, NIGHT’s buying and selling quantity, in accordance with CoinMarketCap, had barely declined to $8.38 billion, with 79.3 billion NIGHT traded within the final 24 hours. This surpasses XRP’s buying and selling quantity of $2.15 billion within the stated interval.
Binance, Bybit and Kraken lately launched buying and selling pairs for Midnight, contributing to a surge in spot buying and selling volumes.
At press time, Midnight was outperforming a number of tokens within the prime 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization in day by day and weekly positive aspects. NIGHT is up 12.38% within the final 24 hours to $0.10 and up 63% weekly.
NIGHT rose for six days at a stretch, seeing a pointy enhance by as a lot as 40% on Sunday, when it reached a excessive of $0.119.
Midnight’s efficiency displays rising curiosity in privateness infrastructure, a story that has seen privateness tokens Zcash and Monero rally this yr.
Cardano advances into 2026
Launched earlier this month, Midnight goals to offer Cardano with a programmable privateness layer utilizing zero-knowledge proofs, separating private and non-private knowledge.
Midnight launched with a cross-chain allocation mannequin that distributes 100% of NIGHT’s 24 billion-token provide throughout eight main ecosystems, together with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, BNB Chain and Cardano.
With latest developments, Cardano now enters 2026 with rising exercise and an even bigger DeFi footprint, making the subsequent few months essential to look at.