Linda Reviews Midnight’s Privacy Expansion and Cardano’s Leios Plans

Linda examined developments across Midnight, Solana, Sui and Cardano in her video, “4 HUGE Crypto News You Need to Know! (ADA, NIGHT, SOL, SUI).” The presentation covers cross-chain privacy, transaction finality and offchain processing before turning to Cardano’s planned capacity increases and Charles Hoskinson’s work on a new programming language.

Midnight Takes Privacy Across Blockchain Networks

Linda begins with Nightmode, describing plans to extend Midnight’s privacy capabilities across Ethereum, Solana and TRON. Her discussion focuses on connecting private financial applications with existing blockchain ecosystems, including their users, wallets and liquidity.

On Ethereum, Sig Network’s integration gives a Midnight smart contract control over an Ethereum account. The application maintains private logic and individual user records on Midnight, while trading and lending operations execute on Ethereum. Assets remain on Ethereum without being bridged or converted into wrapped tokens.

The proposed applications include private trading through Uniswap and pooled lending through Aave. Ethereum continues to display the account’s transaction amounts and timing, while Midnight shields the records connecting individual users with their balances and activity. According to the Midnight Foundation’s October 28 announcement, the integration is running on Stagenet, supporting deposits, swaps, supplying assets to Aave and withdrawals to Ethereum addresses.

Midnight’s October network update also describes expanded functionality for Solana and schedules Nightmode’s TRON deployment for December 2026. Linda places those developments alongside network activity, reporting that Midnight mainnet had passed one million cumulative transactions and that daily transaction counts had increased almost 400-fold over approximately one month.

Her presentation also touches on AI agents and a Hoskinson post about a new concept for Midnight. She treats that post as an announcement of ongoing work, without attaching a release date or identifying a deployed product.

Solana Changes Consensus as Sui Demonstrates Offchain Throughput

For Solana, Linda highlights Alpenglow, the consensus upgrade activated on mainnet on October 21. The change targets transaction finality of approximately 150 milliseconds, compared with roughly 12.8 seconds under the previous system.

Finality describes when a transaction becomes irreversible under the network’s consensus rules. Alpenglow changes how validators reach that agreement: they exchange votes directly and aggregate them into certificates instead of submitting votes as transactions inside blocks. The upgrade leaves transaction execution unchanged.

Linda connects faster settlement with Solana’s focus on blockchain-based capital markets. Her examples include tokenized assets and financial applications where users need confirmation that an operation has completed.

Sui’s demonstration addresses processing capacity through a different architecture. At Sui Basecamp in Singapore on October 7, the project reported more than 40 million transactions per second using Sui tunnels. Linda explicitly explains that the result did not represent the same volume of individual transactions executing directly on the base chain.

Tunnels are programmable offchain state and payment channels. Activity takes place within those channels, with their closing states settled to Sui mainnet and available for cryptographic verification.

Linda links that infrastructure to AI agents, including a clip of Mysten Labs co-founder Adeniyi Abiodun discussing production-scale deployment and coordination. His remarks describe agents transacting with other systems while leaving an audit trail that can be used to check whether their actions followed the rules established by their owners.

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Cardano Targets More Capacity Through Leios

The Cardano segment begins with Hoskinson’s response to a question about whether the network was approaching completion. Linda recounts that he associated Leios with the point at which Cardano would possess the fundamental capabilities he originally wanted it to have.

She outlines an initial capacity target of approximately three to five times Cardano’s current level, followed by later increases targeting ten to fifteen times. Those figures describe planned transaction-data throughput rather than a fixed transaction-per-second rate or performance already available on mainnet.

Leios forms part of the planned Dijkstra upgrade path, with development, testing and governance preceding deployment. Intersect’s October roadmap separates node 11.2’s Dijkstra functionality from the planned integration of Linear Leios in a subsequent hard-fork release candidate. The published node 11.2.0 is a pre-release, with its preparatory Leios support disabled by default.

Linda then turns from protocol capacity to programming tools, playing a clip in which Hoskinson describes personally developing a new language for Cardano. He presents the project as work intended to introduce additional features and functionality to the network.