Midnight Glacier Drop

If you’ve been following developments on Midnight you will know that the Glacier drop has started, with the opportunity to claim an allocation if you held more than $100 in value on eligible chains at the time of the snapshot.

The eligible chains include ADA, BTC, ETH, XRP, AVAX, BAT, BNB, and SOL with varying allocations. The majority allocation is to ADA holders, with BTC and ETH following, and other chains with a smaller percentage.

You have about 60 days to complete a claim from the Midnight site. We’ve tested it and the process is pretty intuitive and simple if you have your funds in a supported Web Wallet like Lace or Eternl. It’s a little more involved if you are claiming from a non-web wallet on another chain as you will need a wallet that supports signing data, and be comfortable to sign the payload generated to prove you control that address.

Daedalus, which is a commonly used Cardano full node wallet does not have a signing option, so we would recommend that you restore your wallet in Lace (for example) and use that to submit your claim. Once you have completed the claim you can safely delete the Lace instance of your wallet and just continue using Daedalus as before.

You will need to provide an unused address on the Cardano network to receive your claim, as the Midnight token is a Cardano Native Asset. This is simple if you use Lace, as it will choose an appropriate address in your wallet for you. If you are manually specifying addresses please ensure you pick an unused address from the correct wallet you wish to get the tokens in. It can be easy to mix up addresses, so double and triple check before you submit.

It’s also wise to get the PDF record of your claim. We noticed this stopped working for a while, however Midnight foundation have stated on X that this will be corrected shortly.

As mentioned before we intend to act as a Midnight validator and have been running Testnet instances for many months now, through the early releases. More news on this in due course.