Cardano Founder Hints at ’Several Dozen’ Major Deals Before 2025 Ends

Charles Hoskinson drops bombshell about Cardano’s upcoming deal pipeline—just as the crypto crowd starts sweating over ’stable’ fiat currencies.

Brace for impact: ADA’s ecosystem gears up for its biggest adoption push yet.

Because nothing says ’bullish’ like a founder teasing partnerships while traditional finance clings to 0.5% yield fantasies.

Wave of Cardano Deals Ahead

Cardano creator and IO chief executive Charles Hoskinson called the collaboration “a natural fit,” arguing that Cardano and Brave “share a vision for a more secure, accessible, and user-respecting Web3” in which on-chain activity is possible “while enabling active, on-chain participation.”

Moreover, Hoskinson hinted via X that the Brave wallet deal is merely the first in a cadence of long-stalled partnerships that IO’s privacy-first sidechain project Midnight has revived. “The Brave announcement is the first in a series that will come out throughout the summer and fall that I term the ‘fixing broken windows’ deals that originated from Midnight negotiations… There are several dozen deals like this for ADA and Cardano native assets. Midnight has picked up the baton and started finishing them. Many, many more to come!”

Midnight, which uses zero-knowledge proofs to enable confidential smart contracts, is central to Hoskinson’s broader pitch. Replying to community enthusiasm, he quipped that “Midnight on Brave is going to give advertising companies heart attacks,” to which another X user cited VPN providers as the next cohort likely to be unsettled. Hoskinson’s laconic answer—“And VPNs :)”—underscored the privacy-preserving ambitions of the sidechain.

For Brave, the integration means adding ADA to a roster that already includes ethereum and Solana inside a wallet used by what the company says are more than 85 million monthly active browser users. IO’s press desk confirmed that Brave Wallet will also support swaps of Cardano native tokens such as NIGHT, and that governance voting for upcoming Voltaire-era improvement proposals will be accessible without leaving the browser.

Beyond technical enablement, the announcement revives a back-story that Hoskinson claims should have played out in 2022. Negotiations were “long overdue,” he wrote, alleging that “a certain entity dropped the ball.”

With those hurdles apparently resolved, IO and Brave both hinted at future “innovation around engagement with Cardano’s governance and Midnight,” suggesting that Brave could become an early venue for Midnight-native assets once the sidechain exits its current developer-preview phase.

Market reaction was muted in the immediate aftermath: ADA traded roughly unchanged on major exchanges, sitting at $0.80.