.@draper_u is now accepting applications for our first cohort of Cardano builders. ✅ Structured programming through Draper University ✅ Housing in Silicon Valley ✅ Access to the Draper network across Web3 and beyond ✅ Mentorship from investors, founders, and institutions We built this fund to help the best Cardano builders scale into global companies. If you're building in the ecosystem, apply below.

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A key part of the Orion Fund's structure is Draper Dragon’s venture studio, the team responsible for incubating new products on Cardano and working directly with builders across the ecosystem. On June 22nd at 8:00 AM PST, we'll be officially introducing the venture studio team and sharing more about how they'll build and collaborate on Cardano in the coming years. Link to the space: x.com/i/spaces/1rGmqqznryVGy…

drunk uncle Emurgo does it again

Thanks everyone that supported the Daedalus proposal. Unfortunately a competing wallet that adversarially defaulted all their users to delegate to them voted no on our proposal with a large amount of stake making it not pass. @emurgo_io I really hope you rectify this situation.

Stoked to see all the positive reactions on the TL about this announcement. Thought I'd give you the inside scoop from the guy whose job it is to bring Cardano to this table. I wear suits when I need to, but the pfp stays on forever. Get your cuppa, this is an actual read! ☕️ TLDR: 5 years of Cardano x UNDP work just crystallised into a Blockchain Advisory Group launch with @CardanoFoundation as a founding member, a flagship 42-use-case report, and 21 Cardano-linked solutions running live with UNDP on the ground. The thread breaks each one down on scale, on-chain activity, and business model. The bigger question - how pilots become procurement, how this gets funded and governed at scale - that answer is coming. I've been working with UN agencies since 2021. The hype cycle was running hot. Back then, every institution wanted to "do blockchain." Most hit the same walls: marketing stunts, shelved pilots, glorified databases, or emotional/philosophical dismissal. The ones that stayed in the game - learned, iterated, built - are now sitting on something genuinely valuable. @UNDP did that. Specifically @UNDP_AltFinLab is the clearest example. A rare pocket of institutional freedom to explore alternative finance seriously. Their theory of change runs three layers deep: Awareness → Capacity → Acceleration Research and publications. Events. The Blockchain Academy. And at the centre: the SDG Blockchain Accelerator. The Cardano treasury seed funded that Accelerator in @Catalyst_onX F13 (regardless of the CF vote btw). Not charity. A calculated bet that building both sides of a market - builders who understand procurement-grade requirements, institutions that understand blockchain - was worth funding directly from the community's own resources. That bet is compounding. Pilot & commercial opportunities are coming to the cohort. The Accelerator is now multichain. Cohort 3 is coming. Graduates are building real things with real traction post-acceleration. It also produced "New Tech, New Partners" - UNDP's flagship blockchain report. 42 real-world use cases. Prefaced by the boss of UNDP himself. When UNDP publishes something like that, every public-sector organisation & government on earth takes notice. Yes Cardano community. You made this happen. You seeded the movement bc you're a blockchain with a purpose. The BAG launch last week formalises what was already forming: a structured advisory relationship between UNDP and the blockchain industry. @CardanoFoundation at the table from day one - not by asking to be there, but because the track record got us invited there. The questions that matter now: → How do successful pilots move into institutional procurement? → How do UN agencies building blockchain programmes stop duplicating and start collaborating? → How is this funded, governed, implemented at scale? Pilotitis isn't solved by better pilots. It's solved by building both sides of the market - with capital and political will behind the gap between pilot and procurement. We're working on that answer. More soon. Now a nice thread: every Cardano-linked pilot solution featured in "New Tech, New Partners" - starting with the two that have broken out of the pack 👇 we be global & onchain 🌍🌎🌏 PS: some of these pilots were built by web2 & web3 onboarded onto cardano!

Humbly asking dreps to support CPC budget and Daedalus maintenance. CPC is primed to run real pilots that lead to real adoption and Daedalus is Cardano's only full node wallet!

they said we’d cross rivers and climb mountains together

AI Loops are so yesterday. I'm over here working on my Agentic mobius strips.

Syngenta - An agri multi national - Coming to Cardano🌍 Doron Gal leads Digital Sustainability & Soil Health at Syngenta Group — 60,000 people, 100 countries, 80 million hectares of farmland on their Cropwise platform. And he's excited about 5am.Earth. 👇 "We want to bring this knowledge and put it on chain — to really and truly empower growers." This is what institutional validation looks like, coming from one of the world's largest AgriTech companies. 🤝 📄 Read the 5am treasury proposal: → One pager: 5am.earth/cardano-proposal → Full proposal: drive.google.com/file/d/1-z7… Share with your DRep #Cardano #5amEarth @YoramBenzvi @udaisolanki @andamio_teams @ZengateGlobal @AiquantTech

Go outside and play, right now 🫵

Meepo is one of the best designers we have in and around the Cardano space. I got to meet him at the last Dubai summit. Amazing work, my friend.

The IOR proposal for Cardano Vision 26 at a glance: 📈 Proven track record: Builds on CV25: 24 papers and 8 technology validation outputs (20% above target) ⚙️ Structured execution: 15 market-oriented programmes across 6 technical work packages 🌐 Global network: Delivered by a consortium of 9 partners and 36 FTEs 💰 Cost efficient: Budget: ₳32.9M (~$7.9M USD), approximately 40% lower in USD terms than CV25 ⏳ Output funnel: Innovation funnel with 42 outputs: 5 implementation-ready CIPs, 12 prototypes, 8 CPSs, 38 papers / reports 🎯 Strategic focus: Human-centred design, scalability, and post-quantum security ⏳ Voting closes June 8th at 21:45 UTC. Let's lock in Cardano's science-based edge. Vote YES on the IOR Proposal! Vote here: voting.cardanofoundation.org…

Cardano's front door hasn't been redesigned in years. So we redesigned it. Introducing the new Cardano.org A concept study - protocol website built for adoption

This week is sentiment, not substance. The macro backdrop is hitting nearly every risk asset at once, and that says very little about what's being built here. Cardano's greatest strengths remain unchanged: security, reliability, and a community capable of taking the long view when we cut through the noise. Significant improvements are in active development and closing in on delivery. Midnight is a huge value-add to Cardano for many reasons. RealFi is real. Parameter changes, proposals, and solutions are being voted on now. Stablecoin adoption is growing. DeFi activity is picking up. All of this is happening regardless of market sentiment. But there are real challenges to address. We should (and we do) acknowledge them. From my POV, Cardano needs to consolidate around the areas where we can genuinely win and where we find alignment with many of the reasons we wanted to be here in the first place. Banking the unbanked. Connecting the unconnected. These remain powerful reminders of why we show up. We also have to take more deliberate action today. We need to back builders who are already creating value, while giving promising teams the support and opportunity to prove what's possible. We need to support our KOLs and voices helping tell Cardano's story and bringing people in to take another look. We need to create a white-glove experience for the best teams, founders, and contributors who choose to build here. The best founders and teams should feel that Cardano is the easiest ecosystem in which to succeed, and we have everything in our power to make that true. All of this requires capital, and there's no getting around it. One of the strongest signals any ecosystem can send is confidence in itself. We need to be prepared to invest in our builders, our teams, and the opportunities in front of us. We also have to find alignment on how we fund growth and development over the next five years, where we concentrate our efforts, where we need to rescope and consolidate, and how we better equip builders and teams to succeed. I think it's fair to say we need to make changes, be that constitutional or structural. These decisions will do more to shape Cardano's future than any market cycle ever will. Taking my own advice, I'm actively working on Intersect's long-term role, what needs to evolve and change, and how we can best support the ecosystem through its next phase. These are not small conversations, and no single person or organization has all the answers. But there is far more that unites us than divides us, and the progress being made across the ecosystem proves it.

Bring a midget and they can never kick you out

This is a major step forward for Hydra-powered apps! Previously it was slow/cumbersome to close a head with a large number of UTxO because you had to incrementally decommit single UTxO at a time until the final UTxO set was below the minimum threshold to perform fanout in a single action. With this incremental partial fanout solution it is much easier for head operators to build systems that store value across many participants. cardano:native L2 scaling continues to march forward

Community gets to decide the fate of Daedalus. I'm one of the new maintainers. If you choose to keep it going, I'll be grateful. If not, that's ok too. We can still be friends and celebrate it with nostalgia. I don't know if you saw my post from earlier today that mentioned Perdix wallet for Midnight. Here's a little bit of the Lore and how it ties back to Daedalus. Enjoy.

The future of Cardano is utility, not hype. The entire crypto industry has failed because we allow sentiment to control price. Lets get back to basics and fund things that have real utility. @IntersectCPC received over 20 proposals for product research we're currently evaluating

Please vote YES on both Gerolamo and Deadalus. This is critical work IMHO.