Midnight and AlphaTON Bring Confidential AI to Telegram’s 1 Billion-User Ecosystem

• Midnight and AlphaTON signed a Federated Node Agreement to integrate Midnight privacy with TON/Telegram.
• AlphaTON will run 1 of 10 founding Midnight nodes and receive monthly payments starting in Q1 2026, plus a 20% revenue share.

Midnight Foundation and AlphaTON Capital have announced an agreement to deploy privacy-preserving AI agents for Telegram users. The announcement describes a plan to combine Midnight’s privacy technology with the TON ecosystem and Telegram’s Cocoon AI, which AlphaTON says it has supported with related infrastructure.

According to the parties, the integration is designed to let the over 1 billion Telegram users access AI agents while keeping personal information private and controlled by the user. The stated approach combines Cocoon AI’s confidential compute with Midnight’s programmable privacy features, aiming to keep messages, credentials, and financial data confidential during AI-assisted tasks. 

The companies said user data would not be available to Telegram, Cocoon AI, AlphaTON, or Midnight as part of the system’s design.

AlphaTON Capital, which trades on Nasdaq under the ticker ATON, described the arrangement as a first-to-market integration of a zero-knowledge blockchain with the TON ecosystem. Midnight is described as a privacy-enhancing blockchain project founded by Charles Hoskinson, who also leads Input Output, the engineering firm behind Cardano. 

The collaboration is intended to support AI agents that can be used for services such as finance, shopping, and customer support within Telegram’s environment.

Midnight-AlphaTON Agreement’s Scope and Revenue Terms

The agreement centers on a Federated Node arrangement under which AlphaTON will operate as a Founding Federated Node Architecture Provider. The company said it has been engaged to provide one of ten founding Midnight nodes and to develop and deploy software that connects Midnight’s privacy layer with Telegram and the TON blockchain.

AlphaTON stated the contract was executed and became effective on December 30, 2025. The described terms are monthly compensation based on the development of a proof-of-concept and continuous node services, to be paid starting the first quarter after the effective date.

The structure also includes a revenue share model described as 20% on a vertically integrated privacy technology stack used for confidential AI on Telegram.

In addition to base compensation, the agreement provides for reimbursement of costs linked to network growth.

Comments from the executives in the announcement emphasized user control and compliance goals. Midnight Foundation President Fahmi Syed said, 

Previously, CNF reported that Midnight recorded a surge in global participation in its 2025 community survey. The report said Africa participation rose 10x, Asia responses quadrupled, and Latin America, the Caribbean, and Oceania nearly tripled. It also noted that 14% of respondents had no prior experience, while 37% identified as very experienced.