Hey Cardanians! Welcome aboard the Weekly Cardano Digest #140!

We've filtered through all the noise to distill crucial updates into a breezy, 5-minute read. No need for you to sift through endless info ,we've got you covered. Ready to delve into this week's top Cardano news? Let’s dive in.

Here are the topics of the week:

• 🦊 Midnight Is Close to an EVM Emulation Mode, MetaMask Included

• ⚡ SugarRush Announces a High-Throughput Order Book DEX on Cardano

• 🛡️ Midnight Partners With Security Firm CertiK

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• & More!

🦊 Midnight Is Close to an EVM Emulation Mode, MetaMask Included

 Midnight CTO Sébastien Guillemot said the network is "very close" to an EVM emulation mode — one that supports a large share of existing Ethereum tooling and even wallets, with MetaMask among them. A working demo of a MetaMask wallet connecting to Midnight has already been shown publicly.

The strategic value here is distribution, not novelty. Every new chain asks developers to adopt unfamiliar tooling, a new wallet and a new mental model, and most of them never clear that bar. EVM compatibility removes the switching cost: an Ethereum team keeps its libraries, its deployment pipeline and its users' wallets, and gains zero-knowledge privacy underneath without rewriting the stack.

If it ships as described, it changes what Midnight is competing for. A specialized privacy network becomes an addressable destination for the largest developer population in crypto — one that can arrive without abandoning anything it already uses. That is the kind of on-ramp that decides whether a privacy layer stays a research project or becomes infrastructure on #Cardano.

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⚡ SugarRush Announces a High-Throughput Order Book DEX on Cardano

SugarRush announced a high-throughput Central Limit Order Book DEX on Cardano, built by the team behind SundaeSwap and powered by Gummiworm, Sundae Labs' Hydra-based layer 2.

A CLOB matches orders by price-time priority — the model centralized exchanges use — giving traders tighter spreads, real limit orders and finer execution control than an automated market maker can offer. The reason Cardano has not had a competitive one is throughput: an order book needs constant, cheap order placement and cancellation, which is expensive on any layer 1.

Running it on Hydra is what makes the economics work, with settlement still anchored on-chain. It is also one of the first production-grade applications building directly on Cardano's scaling stack rather than waiting for it — the point at which layer 2 stops being a roadmap item and starts being something traders actually use on #Cardano.

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🛡️ Midnight Partners With Security Firm CertiK

Midnight announced a partnership with blockchain security firm CertiK, which will support the security and continued growth of the Midnight ecosystem as third-party applications begin to deploy.

The timing is the relevant part. A privacy network carries a problem transparent chains do not: when transaction data is shielded, users cannot audit what a contract is doing by reading the chain. On a public ledger, anyone can verify behavior after the fact. On a private one, that check disappears — and independent security review stops being a nice-to-have and becomes the layer that trust actually rests on.

CertiK has already worked with Input Output on the Protocol v11 audit, so extending coverage to Cardano's privacy partner chain builds on an existing relationship rather than starting cold. It is also precisely the groundwork institutions look for before committing to a network that handles confidential data — auditing capacity in place before the applications arrive, not after.

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