The Midnight Foundation has added Blockdaemon and Shielded Technologies as federated node operators for the Midnight Network, expanding the named launch operators to four alongside Google Cloud and AlphaTON Capital. Mainnet is scheduled to go live at the end of March 2026, with the network expected to move beyond the

Optimism plunged to a new all-time low after intense selling pressure overwhelmed recent demand, with OP collapsing 23% in 24 hours and extending an already fragile downtrend. Weak liquidity and deteriorating sentiment had weighed on the altcoin for weeks. The decline accelerated after Coinbase’s Layer-2 network Base confirmed it

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly, says crypto’s persistent friction reflects a deeper mismatch: its deterministic architecture seems better matched to artificial intelligence agents than to human users. He notes the early vision—smart contracts replacing legal agreements and courts—has not materialized. Even crypto-native firms still rely on