CEO & Cofounder @nuvoladigital ☁️ @volanetwork 🕊️Cardano since 2018

Joined March 2015
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I’ve been a devoted Cardano community member since 2018. Never once strayed from the vision, never once turned my back on the ecosystem, never once had the desire to push and help prosper any other brand. Years later I’ve had the honor to present something we’ve worked so hard to build @NuvolaDigital & @VolaNetwork at the Senate in Rome, and represent Cardano as a whole. I stood at that podium proud and spoke to national leaders with confidence that WE will deliver a world changing product, and that the process has already begun. Thank you to our devoted $NVL community and the broader Cardano ecosystem that still supports us. We aren’t just building a better future, we are the future! @IOHK_Charles @Cardano_CF @emurgo_io @Cardano @IOGroup ☁️🕊️🇮🇹
Following our meeting at Palazzo Piacentini in Rome in November 2025, our CEO, Raul De Benedittis, was invited to speak at the Senate in the Palazzo Giustiniani Building, addressing the role of decentralized technologies in strengthening Europe’s data sovereignty, digital infrastructure and what Nuvola is contributing to the industry. The presentation highlighted the economic potential of DePIN and how decentralized cloud compute can be leveraged to boost national revenues. ☁️🕊️
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“The rarest form of power is not influence over others, but sovereignty over oneself.” ~ The Stoics
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I’ve been in Cardano since 2018. When I say I’ve seen it all, I literally have. What you are seeing is the few voices who tried to burn it to the ground get isolated out. Now that the noise is settling, people know who is who in our ecosystem. They have to stand on their actions and pay the price. The fat is getting shed. I’m seeing more embrace on the timeline. More coming together to help each other. More stepping up and giving a hand to those dedicated for OUR future as an ecosystem. I can promise you that we at Nuvola will continue to build and push Cardano forward regardless of sentiment and condition. That is something I will stand by with everything I have to give. Let’s keep growing 🙏🏽💪🏽☁️🕊️
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Getting started with Vola just got easier! We’ve rolled out a dashboard update to simplify node onboarding for operators, with a lot of new features, fixes & QOL improvements🫡 What's new: ✅Network Reliability Improvements ✅Improved Node Management & Staking ✅Improved Validator Setup ✅Improved File Uploads & File Management ✅A New $VOLA Faucet Anything other feature you'd like to see added? Let us know in the replies👇
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What an honor it is to be on this mission, bringing our vision to life. The doors opening, the opportunities presenting themselves, the individuals I’m being introduced to, I really hadn’t imagined this when we started 2 years ago. Another incredible meeting! Italy is stepping up to the plate! ☁️🕊️🇮🇹
Our CEO Raul had the honor of being invited to speak at Palazzo Valentini in Sala Davide Sassoli for a private event on the Future of Italy. Presenting the distributed cloud compute model as an economic engine to stimulate Italy’s economy as whole and further boost Europe’s great presence in the cloud compute industry. Heavy interest was gathered for running node operations in public testnet for @VolaNetwork We look forward to sharing the next updates! ☁️🕊️🇮🇹
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Dropping by to let everyone know that I spoke with @phillip_pon and we are working out a plan to create a discord for a great migration of the Cardano community from X. We can have happy, positive, well-moderated channels and leave behind the drama, lies, endless rage, and embittered people for a place where real conversations and real progress can be made. I will continue broadcasting live streams to X as I have a million followers here, but will only take AMA questions from the new Cardano and current Midnight discords. I've seen some commentary that broadcasting means I'm back on X. For those people, I can't solve stupid. Enjoy your scandals of the week and FUD. Real work is done elsewhere. Looking forward to Cardano ascending to better days, governance, and culture.
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Every metric is someone discovering, testing, or supporting what we’re building. Over the last 30 days, Nuvola recorded 432.6K visits, 878.49K page views, and 85.83M requests across the ecosystem. ..and Vola hasn't even launched on mainnet yet👀🕊️
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You can run from a lot of things but not the truth.
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The deal is signed. @FireblocksHQ is coming to Cardano. 🤝 More details coming shortly.
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The moment when all your hard work, consistency and believing in yourself pays off:
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Migration of Nuvola Drive to Public Vola Testnet is going well. Metrics continue to increase as we are about to start opening the doors to more users from the web2 side. Cardanos first Cloud-Compute partnerchain @VolaNetwork with a real world dApp Nuvola Drive is coming to life before our very eyes. Users won’t even know they’re utilizing a blockchain based application. This was our approach from the start. Integrated familiarity with silent innovation. Node operators stand to earn directly from paying clients. Two worlds meet through one essential service. Cloud Storage. Thank you to @IOGroup for building the Partner Chain framework. We’re able to deploy it for a real world use case in real time. We’re here to make a difference and move the chain forward. Let’s keep building. 🤝🫡 ☁️🕊️
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Our Vola wallet extension is now officially approved and available on Chrome Web Store! We've just pushed a major update to the wallet extension with a host of new features, fixes and improvements🔥 👇You can access it in the link below
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“We already know how you “OGs” rocking already, The jig is up, They say the truth will set you free, Mine is gon stream while you watching HD, They say that karma can take an eternity, Yours is dropping the same night as me, Funny thing is that they ain’t gon compete, You getting yours while I’m doing me, You gon get yours while I’m doing me…” 🧊☁️🕊️
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It just keeps on rolling! Proud of us 👏🫡
Nuvola Drive Beta has been successfully migrated to the Vola Public Testnet! Over the next few days, on-chain activity will increase as we complete the migration of user data to the new network. Full transparency. Fully verifiable on-chain. Powered by Vola ☁️ 🕊️
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After four years of building for Cardano, today we have difficult news to share.
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Cardano partner chains are starting to get real. @VolaNetwork is now on testnet, using Partnerchain tech to explore decentralised storage and compute connected back to Cardano. This is the part I think matters: Cardano doesn't need every workload crammed onto L1. It needs specialised chains that can extend what the ecosystem can do. Is decentralised storage one of the better use cases for partner chains? *Not a paid promotion
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Cardanos very first Cloud-Compute Partnerchain has come to life! @VolaNetwork : Now tracking live on-chain stats on Vola Explorer v2🕊️ Couldn’t be more proud of our team for yet another accomplishment!!!
We are not slowing down Vola Explorer v2 is live 🔥 You can now track: • Blocks • On-chain Files • Transaction & Fees • Storage Fees • Nodes & Network Stats Everything on-chain, in real time.
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After reflecting deeply on this governance process, a few things are clearer to me than ever. Cardano is alive. The community is engaged. And that matters more than any single vote. But this process has shown me something important: Cardano's governance is real. You are not passive holders. You are owners. That is exactly what we built this for. It has also reminded me that when Cardano has needed it most, the Pentad delivered. IOG, EMURGO, the Cardano Foundation, Midnight Foundation, and Intersect have proven they can coordinate and bring critical integrations to life when the ecosystem needed it. That coordination layer matters now more than ever. So let me show up the way I should. I will be in Singapore for the Cardano Summit and I will be on stage. I am also personally committing to partially top up our Token2049 sponsorship to Title level. Being on that main stage is where Cardano and Midnight need to be heard. To the Pentad, I am inviting all of you to sit down and have a real conversation about the future of governance and how we formalise this coordination going forward. I am 100% focused on Cardano and Midnight. Always have been. Let me prove it. #strongertogether
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Interesting. It’s got an explorer that tracks the chain, gives real observability into usage, total storage and so on. I’ll give this a try sometime the next week and update on how it goes.
Vola Testnet is now live! The first Cardano partner chain focused on decentralized storage & compute is now open for public testing! Explore the network, test the chain & help us shape the future of Vola🕊️ We’re very excited to build this next phase together with all of you! Public Testnet links below👇
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