Surviving Midnight SDK: a 700-line cure for the silent failure problem

Why I built midnight-doctor — a pre-flight check that catches the 16 hours of debugging you don't know you're about to spend "The information you need to align your stack already exists. It's just not executable."* After five months building four applications on Midnight Network , I've concluded the protocol isn't the problem. The protocol is genuinely good — Compact compiles ZK circuits in three seconds without a trusted setup ceremony, and the shielded/unshielded/dust split is the cleanest ans