Midnight: Permissionless smart contract deployment goes live on mainnet - 02 Oct 2026
Permissionless smart contract deployment is live on Midnight mainnet. Builders can now deploy contracts freely, and contracts can programmatically deploy other contracts. The release makes deployment available both to builders publishing contracts directly and to contracts creating further contracts through their own logic.The capability broadens the basis for Midnight's ecosystem growth by opening contract deployment to any builder. Programmatic deployment also allows applications to create additional contracts rather than relying solely on builders to publish each one directly. The concrete change is in what builders and applications can deploy on mainnet, giving ecosystem development a wider set of deployment paths.The Midnight network is moving into its next stage.Today, permissionless smart contract deployment is live on Midnight mainnet, giving builders more freedom to deploy and enabling contracts to programmatically deploy other contracts.And that’s not all in our latest State of…