Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson revealed that LayerZero’s ZRO will be integrated into the Cardano blockchain, with the cross-chain protocol ported to Cardano. The announcement was made during his keynote at Consensus Hong Kong 2026. LayerZero has grown as infrastructure for institutional-grade financial markets and recently gained backing from Citadel Securities. A major part of this development is the planned launch of USDCx on Cardano, with support from major wallets and exchanges already in motion.
Hoskinson confirmed that Cardano’s privacy-focused partner chain Midnight is scheduled to go live on mainnet by the final week of March. Midnight will allow what Hoskinson describes as “rational privacy”—transactions remain private by default, but users can selectively disclose specific information to approved parties when required. To showcase how the system works, Midnight City Simulation was introduced as an interactive demo. Major companies are involved in the broader initiative, with Hoskinson noting that “Google is one of them. Telegram is another. We’re really excited, there’s more that will come.”
Following these announcements, the market moved: ADA climbed roughly 4–5% in the last 24 hours, bouncing from around $0.252 to above $0.265 before calming. Night’s native token NIGHT posted an intraday gain of about 6–7%, rallying from the $0.048 area to above $0.051. Since 2023 Cardano has experienced two growth waves, with TVL rising from about $150M to over $400M in late 2023 and early 2024, aided by DeFi activity, stablecoins, and the Lace wallet launch. The biggest jump came in late 2024 to early 2025, when TVL briefly moved above $700M as on-chain governance and RWAs gained traction.
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