After four years of building for Cardano, today we have difficult news to share.

Cardano Hackathon in Bangalore. The turnout is incredible.

🚨 BREAKING THE EXACT REASON WHY THE MARKET JUST CRASHED: WINTERMUTE DUMPED 9,315 BTC COINBASE DUMPED 8,375 BTC BITMEX DUMPED 7,993 BTC BINANCE DUMPED 5,46K BTC BITWISE DUMPED 5,01K BTC BITFINEX DUMPED 3,751 BTC THIS WAS A COORDINATED DUMP!!!

I keep seeing people trash Cardano, yet every time I actually go use another chain, I’m reminded how spoiled we are. Try sending a token on Ethereum mainnet these days and you’re immediately lost in an L2 jungle: “Do I bridge to Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, zkSync, Polygon, Scroll…?” Then you need three different wallets, half of them don’t support the token you have, the bridges take 9 steps and 47 confirmations, and you still end up paying $18 in gas just to move $20. Solana? Good luck if there’s even mild congestion; transactions fail, RPCs die, and Phantom still feels like it’s held together with duct tape half the time. Avalanche, BSC, Sui, Aptos; every ecosystem has its own maze of subnets, warp speeds, or “move”-your-life-into-a-new-programming-language quirks. Then I come back to Cardano: - Open one wallet (Eternl, Typhon, Nami, Lace… pick literally any) - Load the address - Send or receive - One clear signature - Done. Tokens appear. No “pending,” no “speed up,” no “bridge then claim then wrap then approve then swap” dance. That’s it. It’s like the blockchain equivalent of Pong in a world full of 8K VR flight simulators with 400-button controllers. Simple, predictable, actually works every single time. The tech isn’t the problem; never has been. The problem is we’re terrible at telling the world how ridiculously easy and reliable the UX actually is. Marketing has been our Achilles’ heel, not the chain itself. Cardano didn’t sacrifice usability for decentralization or security; it turns out you can have all three. Most people just haven’t tried it lately… because they’re too busy paying $120 in fees to get rekt by impermanent loss on some L2 they needed a PhD to find. Change my mind🦇

Last week taught us that being a Cardano SPO is no walk in the park — managing infra is complex. What happens when we add 10 partner-chains Midgard Hydra bridges oracles? How do we unify operations without compromising decentralization? Enter: SuperNode 🧵👇

Our 5,000,000 ADA Treasury Withdrawal has been officially approved 🔥 — marking Cardano’s first-ever loan-based governance proposal and pushing for a truly sustainable treasury for the community. This is a landmark moment for Cardano governance. A project building in the ecosystem, structured and submitted an unconventional proposal, engaged transparently with the community, listened to feedback, and earned support throughout the process. It’s a clear sign that the system works. For @snek, this will fuel the next chapter of our growth. We’re already in advanced discussions with the centralized exchanges and retail partners outlined in the proposal, including @binance and @Revolut. We are prepared to move with the market. Thank you to everyone who made this possible, especially @IOHK_Charles, @emurgo_io, @Cardano_CF, @IntersectMBO, and the @AceAlliance_CC team. We’re going to make you proud. Adoption is coming. 🐍

JUST IN: A wallet just opened a $465K long position (~1M ADA) on @strikecardano Someone is placing a big bet on the market bouncing back 🚀 bending.ai/strikefinance/sta…

Cardano community, if you were looking for a reason to keep building, this is it. Balancer was audited TEN TIMES. Yet hackers can still come along and steal $120M while you're sleeping. This is the reality of EVM. Account-based systems invite the same failures: shared state, reentrancy, cascading exploits. The hacks are never going to end. It will never be worthy of secure, long term, important DeFi where yields are actually worth the risk. Then there's Cardano. Its deterministic, isolated UTXO design prevents this by architecture. No global mutable state. It is reminiscent of Bitcoin itself. I am saying this as a Bitcoiner. I own BTC. I don't even invest in ADA beyond what I would need for gas fees, so I'm not coming in with bag bias here. I just want a safe place to park my BTC as collateral for a loan, or to trade other assets. But having read (and written, as a journalist) countless headlines related to DeFi hacks in the past, I along with countless Bitcoiners lost faith that secure DeFi was anywhere close to ever being a reality. It was only in learning about Cardano that I realized that this was an architectural issue. I was shocked when I learned that Cardano hadn't suffered a single major DeFi hack in its history. That's why I find Cardano compelling. Combine that with the fact that it can share an interoperable token standard with Bitcoin through @CharmsDev, and I am confident that this connection is meant to be. Keep your heads up. Enough doomerism about no liquidity, no new users, etc. They're out there. You just have to go find them, and build the tools that bridge the gap. 🟠🤝🔵

Cardano did not even notice that AWS is down.

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