Cardano has joined the Linux Foundation’s Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC).This move aligns Cardano with major players like Microsoft and Amazon in hardware-based data-protection standards.Cardano's sidechain, Midnight, focuses on privacy-first solutions and benefits from Confidential Computing's enclave-based security standards.The integration of hardware-rooted trust through Confidential Computing enhances data protection and privacy for Cardano's Midnight sidechain.