According to Dave, Cardano aims to lead on protocol-level privacy via integration with Midnight, enabling a native hybrid execution model that combines privacy-preserving computation with verifiable, consent-driven selective disclosure (source: Dave on X, Dec 8, 2025). This setup allows regulatory compliance to be enforced cryptographically rather than operationally while maintaining decentralization and leveraging 8+ years of chain reliability (source: Dave on X, Dec 8, 2025). Dave states users retain sovereign control over identity and data as the system preserves determinism, auditability, and cryptographic data integrity, positioning privacy as an enforcement layer and making compliance programmable without counterparty trust or data exploitation (source: Dave on X, Dec 8, 2025).

According to @ItsDave_ADA, Midnight will allow Cardano dApps to run with privacy by design, enabling interactions to be transparent where required and private where appropriate, creating a hybrid model for on-chain activity (source: @ItsDave_ADA, X, Dec 8, 2025). According to @ItsDave_ADA, compliance remains in place but becomes programmable, aligning on-chain operations with regulatory requirements across finance, healthcare, identity, and business contracts (source: @ItsDave_ADA, X, Dec 8, 2025). According to @ItsDave_ADA, the approach aims to let privacy and regulation coexist on-chain in a decentralized, trustless way, positioning Cardano to compete for the industry’s privacy layer and drive real-world adoption of ADA-based dApps (source: @ItsDave_ADA, X, Dec 8, 2025).