Weekly Cardano Digest #88

Cardano breaks new ground: Strike Finance captures 70% of volume, Midnight secures Copper partnership, and ADA enters Unreal Engine.

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Lucas Macchiavelli
August 25, 2025

Hey Cardanians! Welcome aboard the Weekly Cardano Digest #87!

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:

  • 📊 Strike Finance Dominates Cardano Trading

  • 🕛 Midnight Partners with Copper for Institutional Custody

  • 🎮 Cardano Goes Live in Unreal Engine 5

  • Weekly Development Report

  • & More!

📊 Strike Finance Dominates Cardano Trading

Strike Finance has surpassed 70% of all Cardano $ADA on-chain trade volume, cementing its role as the “Hyperliquid of Cardano” with perpetuals offering up to 15x leverage.

The protocol’s latest metrics are impressive:
▪️ Over $94.9M in monthly perpetuals volume
▪️ More than $5.4M in annualized fees
▪️ $26.6M in staked $STRIKE
▪️ And 500,000 $ADA generated for stakers

By capturing such a dominant share of Cardano’s DeFi activity, Strike is proving there is strong demand for advanced trading products on-chain. Its rapid growth highlights the long-term potential for Cardano-native protocols to compete directly with leading players in the broader crypto markets.

🕛Midnight Partners with Copper for Institutional Custody

Midnight has struck a major deal with Copper, a leader in institutional custody, to support both the Glacier Drop token distribution and long-term custody of the $NIGHT token.

Through this partnership, Copper will provide:
▪️ Institutional-grade custody via its secure MPC platform
▪️ Integrated token claiming during the Glacier Drop
▪️ Compliance-aligned infrastructure for institutional engagement

With 24B NIGHT tokens allocated across eight major blockchains (including Cardano, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana), this collaboration ensures that institutions can securely claim and hold their allocations.

As Fahmi Syed, President of the Midnight Foundation, put it:

“Institutional adoption of blockchain depends on privacy that doesn’t compromise compliance.”

This partnership could mark a turning point in bringing privacy-enabled Web3 infrastructure to global institutions.

🎮 Cardano Goes Live in Unreal Engine 5

For the first time ever, Cardano $ADA and native assets are live inside Unreal Engine 5, unlocking a new frontier for Web3 gaming, NFTs, and virtual economies.

By bridging Cardano directly into UE5, developers can now experiment with real in-game assets, NFT interoperability, and tokenized virtual worlds powered by Cardano’s blockchain.

This integration signals massive potential: from play-to-earn models to cross-chain metaverses, Unreal Engine’s cutting-edge graphics and Cardano’s robust blockchain can merge into a powerful foundation for next-gen gaming.

Could this be the moment where Cardano makes its mark in the gaming world? The stage is set, and the tools are ready.

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🎊 A Message from Lucas

Hey everyone! Last weekend was amazing. We had the Midnight Hackathon in Buenos Aires. A Bunch of coders, designers, and big thinkers jammed together, chugging coffee and hammering out ideas all night. The stuff people built in a few hours was wild.

The place was buzzing, everyone just feeding off each other’s energy. Big props to the organizers for keeping it smooth, and to all the teams who went hard.

Wish you an amazing new week! 

-Lucas Macchiavelli

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