Devastated. Accidentally deleted my pinned tweet 😭 but need to keep it alive. 📌 goes on!

Introducing: Aave Double Yield 🚢 We're excited to announce users will be able to take their LP deposits from Aave and supply them as liquidity to Strike Vaults. This means they'll get their baseline Aave yield 20% APR on stables through our protocol 🔥 There's currently $5 billion in stables deposited to Aave ETA: Next week 🗓️

I believe in Cardano until it stops paying me for my grifts

I've come to a simple conclusion. I'd rather swim in waters clearly marked "Shark Infested" than in waters where the sharks are just as numerous but everyone on the dock insists they're not there. The sharks aren't the problem - the dishonesty is. For years, Cardano holders were sold potential while being asked to overlook performance. Eventually, the distance between what was promised and what was delivered became impossible to ignore. Meanwhile, users, Builders, and liquidity left. At some point, you stop asking when the turnaround is coming and start asking: What if this is it? If I wanted to protect my reputation, I'd run toward some obscure platform where centralized control, censorship, and groupthink are accepted as normal. I won't. In fact, my goal with the DAH (Dramz Auction House) was to do the literal opposite - expand access, raise awareness, and remove obstacles for people who wanted to participate. My journey continues forward and away from Cardano because I've lost confidence in the people responsible for confronting reality. That doesn't erase the people who made the journey worthwhile. I've invested time, capital, energy, and passion into countless individuals, projects, and communities over the years. Some stood beside me when it mattered. Some defended me when I wasn't even in the room. Some simply wanted to see me win. For that, I'm grateful. This chapter ends without regret. The question now isn't whether I'm leaving. The question is whether you've honestly assessed your own position. Are you still where you are because the opportunity is compelling? Or because you've been there so long that leaving feels uncomfortable? Nature doesn't reward loyalty to a shrinking ecosystem, it rewards adaptation. Everyone eventually makes a move. The only real choice is whether you make it before the market makes it for you. Back to the salt mines. Happy Saturday. 🫡

Incredible. Publishing what appears to be (if you care to read the "evidence") a totally legitimate US program, and even citing the risks of these being used as "Russian information campaigns", Tulsi Gabbard - the gift that kept giving - presents the Kremlin with yet one more information operation. Read our investigation from 2025 where we presented evidence that the hybrid ops unit of GRU's 29155 came up with the whole "bio-labs" concept - and co-opted Tulsi into it. theins.press/en/inv/281731

Saylor is a degenerate gambler taking massive, reckless risk with other people’s money. Stop listening to him.

9 out of 10 statistics are completely made up on the spot.

Discord groups have existed in this ecosystem for years. In practice, they have often functioned less like public forums and more like caves: small groups talking among themselves, with decisions and narratives forming in isolation. I think it is delusional to believe that people will simply change their social behavior, stop discussing things on X, and suddenly start organizing meaningful public debate inside specific Discord channels. Cardano has hundreds of peer-reviewed papers, yet somehow basic concepts like network effects still seem to be ignored when convenient. We have already had several attempts to create “proper” channels for discussion. The Cardano Forum has existed for years and is barely used by most of the community. At times, it feels less like a civic space and more like a graveyard of abandoned conversations. Catalyst and Intersect Discord servers have also existed for years. They may be useful for coordination, but if the goal is to create an echo chamber where the same people talk to the same people, then yes, Discord is probably the perfect venue. The issue is not that X is healthy. It obviously is not. The issue is pretending that moving conversations into more controlled spaces automatically creates better discourse, broader legitimacy, or a more representative community. It does not. It mostly creates quieter rooms. And in an ecosystem that claims to care about decentralization, public accountability, and open governance, confusing silence with alignment is a dangerous mistake. The level of disconnection from reality in this ecosystem keeps growing.

people living paycheck to paycheck are about to be dickriding in the comments…

Silver finally made it's way back to touch the 50wk ma 🥈 $xag Still remaining patient regarding my initial plan, really wanting to see a later breakdown into my red zone for a year or two before things get spicy, but we shall see 🔍

So Charles - the space pinned to my profile he tells me he no longer controls ADA since he burned the Genesis keys But he also: -keeps receiving hundreds of millions of USD of ADA through all his companies to keep working on Cardano (he made threats to dreps if they didnt approve) - makes threats that Cardano will fail if his "4th generation" new blockchain midnight fails - and now tells us we should stop using open public town hall forums that promote free speach and instead move towards his private discord? HAHAHAHAHAHA When i think he couldnt get more brazen

I put my entire life into Cardano. My time, my expertise, my savings. I’ve literally gone all in, and for over 5 years now. No salary for 3 years, along with my co founder, and every payroll was paid on time. This isn’t meant as a guilt trip just context towards my reality. I forced my cofounders to envelope the ‘entrepreneur mindset’ and make sacrifices to make our vision of Anvil work. I thought we were in good company in Cardano. A bunch of scrappy, smart people who are building the future financial rails of the world. Unfortunately, not everyone was living like starving entrepreneurs and looted our community/treasury while keeping cushy salaries. Now the price is in the teens…and we can’t even get contracts on Cardano to sustain our business, with no indication that change is coming, all community business proposals are not passing atm. I gave up my 30s for this. I had a great career trajectory making solid money. I don’t regret the decision I just wish it went different. Believe it or not, we didn’t make many stupid decisions, we were responsible with salaries, and ran very lean operations. Did we fail? Or did Cardano fail to flourish and create real opportunity? I bought Ada, I believed in the token. I dropped my 401k on it. Held it religiously for 5 years, all to sell at .16 so I don’t lose my house? It’s insane lol was I supposed to sell on everyone’s heads? I thought being a believer was the whole point now I just feel like a sheep. I don’t even have the 100k Ada required anymore to go straight to the treasury. The only thing I can think of that hurt worse were my kidney stones. This is the most defeated I have felt in a long time. And now I’m watching 8 months of hard work and relationship building get thrown away. Can’t get a hold of half the DReps otherwise you come off as annoying. Didn’t do a Japan tour? Good luck! I had to waste 6 days explaining to one of our top DReps why the product needs Cardano. He basically said we didn’t need to use blockchain or cardano. Instead of explaining the value we create I gotta convince our top DReps why a project chose to build on Cardano? 🤯 Im not perfect but I damn sure tried to be! Answered everyone promptly, reached out to DReps, and did our best to listen/apply feedback. I show up everyday. Can someone explain to me why I should keep trying to build here? I’ve legit lost everything but my wife who isn’t getting any happier with me. Today is the first day I work towards getting my life back. IDK exactly what that means but I’m done feeling like this for nothing.

Thanks goof, appreciate the kind words. This really was everything for us. We spent 8 months building up to this point. The support was epic. It tells me people here really do like what we do and offer for Cardano. The unfortunate reality is I have mouths to feed, including my own. I cannot continue to will my way towards that. All the opportunity this space once flourished with is gone. We can’t make it to 2027 treasury season. That’s the crushing reality. It’s time for a reevaluation of our business. Makes no sense that the commercial arm of Cardano couldn’t take 5 minutes to have a convo with me or see the commercial value of the proposal. Our entire intersect process was decided by 2 people, what’s the fucking point?

This is the Bifrost treasury withdrawal draft, brought by Fluid Tokens and @lantr_io . We are publishing it here for community feedback. hackmd.io/@lantr/bifrost-bri… Some rationale: This is an important step, and we want people to read it closely, discuss it openly, and share their views before anything moves forward. Bifrost is being built as public infrastructure for Cardano: open source, independently stewarded, with no bridge token and no founder allocations. Catalyst funded the testnet phase. This draft is about the next step toward mainnet, including security, private mainnet readiness, legal structure, ecosystem adoption, and the coordination needed to make a Bitcoin to Cardano bridge work in practice. This ask is focused on bridge technology, security, ecosystem bootstrap, and launch readiness. In practice, this means bridge hardening, audits and security work, internal mainnet, legal setup, SDK support, whitelabel portal support, and the coordination needed to bring Bifrost to private mainnet. The launch and operations costs are included as a projection, so the community can see the full plan in the Roadmap & Budget overview section, while the current ask focuses on the work required to get Bifrost ready for a secure launch path. The budget has been jointly decided on with a 0.16 ADA/USD reference price and a 10% contingency, bringing the current ask to 12.3M ADA. At a high level, the proposal is built around three workstreams: Bridge hardening & Security, Ecosystem readiness & partnerships, and Legal, stewardship & economy. We are also providing hands-on development support for any Cardano dApp integrating Bifrost via SDK or whitelabel portal and fBTC in their workflows, creating new opportunities for Bitcoin liquidity across the ecosystem. We know proposals like this deserve scrutiny, and that is exactly why we are publishing it early for feedback from every Cardano dRep. Please read it, challenge it, and let us know what you think. 💙

The good thing is, you have the autonomy to not solely communicate in a "new" discord while still participating in a decentralized ecosystem & continue the conversation freely

"I said to YOU never sell your Bitcoin. I never said the company would never sell its bitcoin." Fucking awesome, 10/10, no notes

Happy to share that I’ve enrolled in the American Nuclear Society’s @ANS_org Nuclear Licensing & Regulation Certificate Course. Grateful to ANS for the opportunity. Going deeper on how federal oversight works, how the regulatory framework evolved, and how it all applies day to day in this industry. More to come.

Comparing the current Bitcoin bear market to the last 3 bear markets

Can’t wait to see the insider trade reports…

There is almost a perfect correlation between how hard the Epstein class is pushing the SpaceX exit liquidity IPO siphon & how hard Elon is going full Sieg Heil pushing for a race war across multiple countries At least now ppl see who he is after years of extractive bullshit 🤝