Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has highlighted the Midnight native token’s overwhelming success in comparison with different CNTs.
NIGHT, the native token of Cardano’s sidechain Midnight, lastly made its debut on December 9. After only a day of buying and selling, NIGHT is already outpacing different Cardano native tokens (CNTs) in a number of metrics.
NIGHT Dwarfs Different CNTs in FDV, Quantity
Notably, Hoskinson highlighted this in his latest broadcast, lauding the success of the Midnight native token. He recognized an “overwhelming degree” of buying and selling quantity for NIGHT, utilizing the Cardano-focused analytical platform TapTools.
On the time of his podcast, the NIGHT token had a quantity of $9.78 million, which he famous was greater than the mixed quantity of all the opposite CNTs. The closest to NIGHT is the SNEK meme coin, which has a buying and selling quantity of $1.41 million.
In the meantime, these numbers have spiked since Hoskinson’s disclosure. At press time, TapTools information reveals a buying and selling quantity of $14.2 million, as extra market customers proceed to indicate curiosity within the token.
This massive disparity between NIGHT and different CNTs additionally extends to the absolutely diluted valuation (FDV). Presently, it has an FDV of $1.16 billion, down from $1.5 billion when Hoskinson recorded the podcast. But, it trounces SNEK’s FDV at $88 million. The Cardano founder acknowledged that it surpasses the mixed complete of each different CNT.
Hoskinson emphasised that NIGHT is already posting these volumes regardless of simply making its market debut. He famous that “the makers are simply beginning to activate” and buying and selling is simply starting. Additionally, he highlighted that the Japanese market has not began buying and selling NIGHT, and the Midnight mainnet has not even gone reside.
This builds on his earlier assertion that Midnight would carry huge traction to Cardano, greater than another ecosystem native token has.
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Hoskinson famous that this stellar efficiency means that Cardano nonetheless has what it takes to create a multi-billion-dollar mission and entice main exchanges. Remarkably, NIGHT reached an over $1 billion valuation yesterday, earlier than latest downsides pushed its market cap to $776 million.
Additional, Hoskinson heaped praises on “dominant” Midnight even because it secured Binance’s itemizing. The main trade by buying and selling quantity launched NIGHT on Binance Alpha on December 9 earlier than itemizing it for perpetual buying and selling.
In the meantime, he additionally predicted that Midnight would attain larger heights within the close to future, together with a 10x valuation increase. The Cardano founder acknowledged that NIGHT would turn into a $10 billion mission and develop past being a Midnight native token into “one thing larger.”


