Ttosh94instacksignal.hashnode.dev·May 4 · 10 min readToken Gates on Midnight: Verifying Asset Ownership and Membership with ZK ProofsToken gating is one of the oldest tricks in the Web3 playbook — hold a token, get access. Simple in theory, leaky in practice. When you prove NFT ownership on Ethereum to access a Discord server, you're revealing your wallet address, your full token ...00
Ttosh94instacksignal.hashnode.dev·May 4 · 8 min readDecoding Error 1010: What 'Invalid Transaction' Actually MeansError 1010 on Midnight Network is the kind of thing that stops you cold. You've built the circuit, written the TypeScript driver, deployed to testnet — and then: InvalidTransaction. No stack trace. No obvious cause. Just a number. Here's what's actua...00
Ttosh94instacksignal.hashnode.dev·May 4 · 11 min readBuilding Batch Transactions in Midnight: Multi-Recipient Settlements and Complex FlowsThe error hit me at 2am during a hackathon. POOL_INVALID_TX. I'd been building a settlement contract that needed to pay out seven recipients from a single contract call, and the transaction kept getting rejected by the block author. Not a logic error...00
Ttosh94instacksignal.hashnode.dev·May 4 · 8 min readUsing midnight-mcp for Contract Development with AI AssistantsIf you've spent any time writing Compact contracts on Midnight, you've hit the same wall I did: the feedback loop is brutal. You write a contract, run the compiler, wait 10–30 seconds, get an error that points to the wrong line, and then go read docs...00
Ttosh94instacksignal.hashnode.dev·May 4 · 7 min readIntegrating Midnight Proofs into an Existing Node.js BackendThe first time I wired Midnight proofs into an Express API, I designed it the way I'd design any async operation: send request, await response, return result. The endpoint timed out after 30 seconds. The proof server was still running. It finished 12...00
