LONDON, JUNE 6, 2026 – The Midnight Foundation has announced the launch of the Night Sky Accelerator, a new 10-week programme designed to help early-stage founders build and scale privacy-first businesses Midnight, a privacy-enhancing blockchain that enables developers to build applications using programmable privacy and selective disclosure.
The programme builds on growing activity across the Midnight ecosystem following the network’s launch earlier this year, creating a structured pathway for teams looking to transform privacy-first applications from technical concepts into commercially viable products.
Participants will receive ongoing support across product development, growth strategy, partnerships and fundraising, while working directly with mentors from the Midnight ecosystem and external experts.
Launching this July, the inaugural cohort will consist of four to six selected teams across both Web2 and Web3 backgrounds that view privacy as a strategic advantage for real-world applications.
The programme is open to founders across a wide range of sectors, including decentralised finance, payments, tokenisation, digital identity, governance, compliance, healthcare, gaming and other emerging applications where privacy and selective disclosure can unlock new opportunities. Selective disclosure enables organisations and users to verify specific information on-chain without exposing all underlying data, helping applications benefit from decentralisation, transparency and verifiability while maintaining control over sensitive information.
Priority areas include:
- Decentralized Finance: Tokenization and payment networks.
- Digital identity: Decentralized identification systems.
- Digital product passports (DPP): Asset tracking and verification systems.
- Governance and compliance: Regulatory framework alignment and auditing tools.
- Healthcare: Secure medical data management platforms.
- GameFi: Privacy-preserving decentralized gaming and entertainment applications.
The programme will culminate in October at Token2049 Singapore, one of the largest annual blockchain conferences, where participating teams will present their products to a curated audience of venture capital firms and ecosystem partners.
Graduating teams will be receiving capital allocations from the Midnight Foundation, providing a pathway from early-stage development to long-term growth.
Applications for the first Night Sky Accelerator cohort officially open on Monday June 8th at 12pm UK time.
Learn more: https://midnight.network/blog/night-sky-accelerator
Apply here: https://midnightfoundation.notion.site/fd525bfc17e346ad8f2be0fdbc78c6f0
About Midnight Foundation
The Midnight Foundation is an organisation dedicated to advancing the development, adoption, and real-world impact of the Midnight network, the privacy-enhancing blockchain project developed by Shielded Technologies. Designed for confidential smart contracts, Midnight enables censorship-resistant yet compliant decentralised applications. It leverages zero-knowledge proofs and a cooperative tokenomics architecture – with NIGHT as the utility token and DUST as the shielded capacity resource – to deliver a powerful combination of privacy, security, and decentralization.
Source: Midnight Foundation
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