THE NETWORK
Privacy you can build on.
Midnight combines public verification with private data. Applications choose what stays confidential and what needs to be disclosed.
Meet Midnight
BUILT ON MIDNIGHT01 / BELOW THE SURFACE
Your money doesn’t
need an audience.
Open markets. Private lives.
There’s room for both.
Pulse is a decentralized exchange built on Midnight. Trade without publishing your private account balances for the world to inspect.
VISIBILITY STUDY / 001
Your balance stays your business.
- Private account balance
- Shielded
- Private balance details
- Shielded
- Transaction rules
- Verified
Private balances; public commitments enforce the rules. Cardano bridge activity remains public.
THE MARKET CAN BE OPEN.You don’t have to be.
02 / A DIFFERENT FOUNDATION
Prove the trade.
Keep the details.
Powered by Midnight.
Privacy, written into the rules.
PRIVATE DATA → PUBLIC CONFIDENCE02 / MATHEMATICS
Show that the rules were met.
A zero-knowledge proof demonstrates that the contract’s rules were followed, without publishing the private inputs themselves.
A conceptual view of Midnight’s proof model.
THE LANGUAGE
Compact. Built for this.
Midnight’s smart-contract language compiles contract logic into zero-knowledge circuits. A practical way to make privacy part of an application.
Explore CompactTHE PRINCIPLE
Open to inspection.
Public code invites scrutiny. Confidence grows through review, testing and how the system performs over time.
Explore Pulse’s codePRIVACY HAS A HISTORY.
Zcash and Monero helped put private transactions on the map. Midnight brings programmable privacy and selective disclosure to applications.
The next chapter03 / CROSS INTO MIDNIGHT
A familiar asset.
A new horizon.
Meet Moonlight.
Pulse’s bridge connects supported Cardano assets with their wrapped counterparts on Midnight. A way into private finance, and a way back.
Understand the crossingONE BRIDGE. TWO DIRECTIONS.
01 / LOCK
Cardano
Supported original assets
02 / MINT
Midnight
Corresponding wrapped assets
Lock supported assets on Cardano. Mint their wrapped counterparts on Midnight.
Cardano deposits and withdrawals remain public. Check supported routes, fees and limits before moving assets.
Explore MoonlightCOMING FROM ETHEREUM?
New wallet. Familiar steps.
Start your Cardano journey with Lace or Eternl. We’ll walk you through setup.
04 / MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME
All the moves.
A little more quietly.
The essentials of an exchange.
A different relationship with visibility.
THE PULSE APP / SWAP
Make your next move.
Choose your pair, review the details and find your way into private markets.
- 01Choose a pair
- 02Review the quote
- 03Approve in your wallet
APP PREVIEWInteractive example data. No wallet or funds connected.
05 / MAKE SOMETHING YOURS
Small beginnings.
Native possibilities.
Create a fixed-supply token on Midnight.
Give an idea its own asset. Pulse’s minting utility creates tokens native to Midnight, with a home in its shielded asset model.
Explore token creationMinting requires a 1AM wallet and DUST. Eternl is not supported by the minting utility.
COMING SOONFrom first spark
From first spark
to first market.
A market around an idea.
A planned bonding-curve launch experience: a straightforward route for communities finding their first supporters.
A launch shaped around you.
Specialist launch services for projects that need a more considered, tailored route to market.
P—06 / THE HUMAN BEHIND THE PROTOCOL
06 / THE BUILDER
Before the market,
the tools.
Christian Schmitz
Pulse founder. Helios creator.
A builder from the foundations up.
Christian created Helios, a smart-contract language and toolkit for Cardano. His earlier engineering work and experience in language design share a thread: understand the machinery, then make it better.
Pulse brings that approach to private markets on Midnight. An exchange people can understand, inspect and choose to trust.
ENGINEERINGLANGUAGE DESIGNPRIVATE MARKETS
07 / GOING DEEPER
Trust takes time.
We’re building for it.
The ambition is a deep, dependable market for private finance. Growth has to be earned.
Stronger foundations.
More testing, more review and contracts that improve with scrutiny.
CONTINUOUS WORKDeeper markets.
More assets and participants. Liquidity where trades need it.
GROWTH DIRECTIONLess friction.
Clearer decisions and a smoother path from wallet to settlement.
PRODUCT DIRECTIONTrust, earned.
A track record that gives larger pools of capital a reason to choose Pulse.
LONG-TERM AMBITION08 / A SHARED FUTURE
A private market.
A shared ambition.
PULSE is the token at the heart of the community. Our long-term vision is a market owned by its token holders. Follow the work, explore the token and decide how you want to take part.
Explore PULSE on Minswap
YOUR NEXT MOVE.
Yours to make.