Ascend

Ascend is a leveraged event-perpetuals exchange and order-book DEX where traders go long or short on the probability of real-world outcomes across politics, crypto, sports, and macro markets. It is built on Midnight, Cardano's privacy-focused partner chain, with user actions finalized on Midnight and trades settled via zero-knowledge proofs across Cardano, EVM, and Solana. As a Midnight-native venue, Ascend sits in the same Cardano ecosystem that USDM is expanding into through its native Cardano-to-Midnight integration.