Market Misjudgment: $NIGHT is not a privacy coin, but a programmable privacy infrastructure
Recently browsing X and Gate Plaza, I found a very common but also fatal way of judgment: many people categorize NIGHT as a privacy coin in one sentence. This kind of statement sounds convenient, but it actually unconsciously compresses NIGHT’s narrative space into an outdated frame.
The term "privacy coin" itself carries the shadow of the previous cycle. Its default use case is only one: anonymous transfers. But the problem is, in today’s Web3, what’s truly lacking is no longer the ability to see who transferred how much to whom, but rather, how to use privacy reasonably in complex real-world scenarios without losing control or violating regulations.
In the past two years, you will notice a clear change: privacy is gradually shifting from an adversarial demand to an infrastructure-level requirement. DeFi, AI Agents, cross-chain communication, RWA, identity systems— in these scenarios, the most sensitive aspect is never just asset amounts, but strategies, identities, behavioral paths, and data structures. Once these are exposed, many applications can’t even go live; they can only stay at the demo stage.
It is in this sense that NIGHT is seriously underestimated. It’s not competing with some anonymous coin for users, but trying to answer a more fundamental question: can privacy, like Gas, Rollups, or Oracles, be called, configured, and combined? It’s not about whether I use privacy or not, but where it’s applied, how much privacy is needed, for how long, and who controls it.
With this perspective, many originally blurry areas suddenly become clear. The true audience NIGHT serves is not just individual users wanting to hide themselves, but developers and protocols building systems, designing mechanisms, and deploying products. It’s not a question of whether it’s worth buying, but more like an essential system component you can’t do without.
Just like many early on didn’t understand Rollups, thinking they were just performance optimizations; or didn’t understand why Oracles would become infrastructure. Until one day, you realize that without them, the entire system can’t operate stably. Privacy may be heading down the same path.
So I increasingly believe that the real question is never whether NIGHT will rise, but: when future Web3 applications need privacy but cannot lose control, who will they choose to connect with? This is a positioning issue, not an emotional one.
If you see this clearly, it’s hard to understand NIGHT simply as a privacy coin anymore.
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Market Misjudgment: $NIGHT is not a privacy coin, but a programmable privacy infrastructure
Recently browsing X and Gate Plaza, I found a very common but also fatal way of judgment: many people categorize NIGHT as a privacy coin in one sentence. This kind of statement sounds convenient, but it actually unconsciously compresses NIGHT’s narrative space into an outdated frame.
The term "privacy coin" itself carries the shadow of the previous cycle. Its default use case is only one: anonymous transfers. But the problem is, in today’s Web3, what’s truly lacking is no longer the ability to see who transferred how much to whom, but rather, how to use privacy reasonably in complex real-world scenarios without losing control or violating regulations.
In the past two years, you will notice a clear change: privacy is gradually shifting from an adversarial demand to an infrastructure-level requirement. DeFi, AI Agents, cross-chain communication, RWA, identity systems— in these scenarios, the most sensitive aspect is never just asset amounts, but strategies, identities, behavioral paths, and data structures. Once these are exposed, many applications can’t even go live; they can only stay at the demo stage.
It is in this sense that NIGHT is seriously underestimated. It’s not competing with some anonymous coin for users, but trying to answer a more fundamental question: can privacy, like Gas, Rollups, or Oracles, be called, configured, and combined? It’s not about whether I use privacy or not, but where it’s applied, how much privacy is needed, for how long, and who controls it.
With this perspective, many originally blurry areas suddenly become clear. The true audience NIGHT serves is not just individual users wanting to hide themselves, but developers and protocols building systems, designing mechanisms, and deploying products. It’s not a question of whether it’s worth buying, but more like an essential system component you can’t do without.
Just like many early on didn’t understand Rollups, thinking they were just performance optimizations; or didn’t understand why Oracles would become infrastructure. Until one day, you realize that without them, the entire system can’t operate stably. Privacy may be heading down the same path.
So I increasingly believe that the real question is never whether NIGHT will rise, but: when future Web3 applications need privacy but cannot lose control, who will they choose to connect with? This is a positioning issue, not an emotional one.
If you see this clearly, it’s hard to understand NIGHT simply as a privacy coin anymore.
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