Key Takeaways
- Charles Hoskinson plans to airdrop Midnight tokens to 37 million wallets, promoting unity across blockchain ecosystems.
- Venture capital firms are excluded from the token allocation, with the focus solely on retail participants.
- Midnight’s framework will allow developers to pay in native tokens and validators to earn cross-chain rewards.
At Toronto’s Consensus 2025 event, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson and CEO of Input Output Global (IOG) announced major details about the forthcoming airdrop for Midnight, Cardano’s privacy-focused sidechain.
Titled the Glacier Drop, this distribution will target 37 million wallets across eight leading blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. The unprecedented scope of the initiative signals a push to dissolve long-standing rivalries between crypto communities.
Charles Hoskinson’s message revolved around addressing what he believes is…


