Quick question: anyone here actively using crypto for payments? Sending/receiving crypto with friends, clients, freelancers, devshops, builders, etc. If you have 7 mins, would love for you to try PIVY and tell us: - why you would/wouldn’t use it - what feature should PIVY add Our goal is to make crypto payments quick and private, drop the feedback on our PH link below!

No crypto foundation in the space is profitable or sustainable. Token appreciation and returns from staking, or market mingling (which the CF would never do) has carried them since their inceptions. Thats it. Revenue should be generated by community projects - not by their organisational entities. How fucked would that be if non-profits designed to support an ecosystem, like CF, would take contracts of projects that devshops on Cardano could handle? On that point.. We are slowly seeing the first ones run out of funds already. NEM shut down in 2019, Harmony closed shop in 2024, and Algorand had to kick nearly half the staff just recently, all because of overspending. I joined CF because they are not jumping on hypes or sponsoring formula 1 teams, but always spent frugally and responsibly (sure. people will find counter examples and bash me for saying what i say, as everything that comes from anyone at CF, but its generally true. have a look at other organisations that throw money at every second thing and pay to play on every hype unsustainably). CF has the mission to grow Cardano - ideally to a level where it doesnt need a supporting foundation anymore - like Bitcoin is - or alternatively to scale down to a maintenance function for brand, repo mgmt, whatnot. That timeframe was aimed at being around 10 years, but has always been a function of time vs burnrate. Current, past and future market conditions change the runway number of course, but the mission doesnt change - at least since I joined 3y ago. (Lets get over the troubled age of the early days. I dont know anything about it and it doesnt matter anymore either.) Look at balance sheets of literally any other crypto foundation. its a calculated loss everywhere. Generally, Id argue that economics are much like the ones of blockchains themselves.. Bitcoin's mining subsidy is designed to incentivise adoption early and transition into a self-sustaining model with onchain fees. POS models arent any different - including Cardano. In extension.. Each chains "main organisation" similarly cant forever support all the efforts they are subsidizing as money doesnt appear magically from nothing. These expensive costs range from intransparent annual license costs for "ecosystem infra" like to keep supporting their chain on custodians or trading venues, to tooling development and maintenance, devex support, and whatever else needs funding. None of that is vanity or party or big salaries. I dont mean this as brag, apologies if it sounds like it, but i could earn much more elsewhere, which is true for most in CF. On the summit though: I 100% get the point of miscommunicating 1.2m vs 2.5m, that has been an indubitably shit process from CF (time being the main reason for that btw - plan was to sound this proposal much earlier, but oh well..), but whats weird to me here is that people got angry about CF not participating in crazy spends in the past and were called out to be stingy swiss fucks that block everything, because its controlled by the swiss government, but here a lot of the arguments are overspending. On your questions re financial statements: An AMA with our CFO might be interesting. Ill suggest it. Im not our finance department, but how i read this is: BTC, ADA and fiat-ish are roughly on page 28 in usd, the screenshot you sent states the units of tokens as per EOY, and loans to 3rd parties means we get yield on btc. ___ ....please prove me wrong of not having made a mistake by sending all this and expressing myself (not CF).

Radiants been cooking. The Hackathon Devshops and @depitch_academy master class were absolute bangers. So we wanna know, what would everyone like to see workshops focussing on for the next hackathon we host?

the best advice I was ever given came from some folks on the coast. "Take your dreams and think 5x bigger" also devshops are a scam and are the lowest signal ever imo

as coding gets cheaper, the commodity isn't the code anymore. devshops will start throwing it in for free and charging for the thinking - architecture, advisory, product strategy.

Creo que los Globant del mundo probablemente aguanten más tiempo porque están metidos en procesos complejos, con integración profunda, compliance y ownership de sistemas. Ahí la IA no reemplaza tan fácil la relación. Mi punto va más a los devshops medianos y chicos que viven de cuentas grandes y críticas, como ecommerce o plataformas en crecimiento, y esas cuentas no tienen capital para atraer talento top local, pero sí para pagar un equipo offshore decente. Y lo que estoy viendo, porque mi empresa trabaja con esas compañías, es que empiezan a contratar gente local, usan AI para el volumen, eliminan fricción de idioma, cultura y horarios, y logran igual o más output. A veces por el mismo costo, a veces por un poco más, pero con mucha menos complejidad operativa. En ese escenario, mantener relaciones nearshore u offshore deja de ser atractivo.

De acuerdo en que va a impactar a todos. Pero mi punto va mas sobre dónde se rompe primero el modelo. Las empresas usaban devshops baratos para producir volumen. Ese volumen ahora lo produce un modelo. Cuando eso pasa, la optimización deja de ser costo salarial y pasa a ser fricción total. Ahí prefieren menos gente, mejor pagada, local, y el resto lo hace la máquina. Aunque el costo se mantenga o suba un poco, baja la complejidad operativa. Idioma, horarios, cultura, coordinación, todo eso desaparece. Por eso el offshore generalista pierde atractivo primero que el resto de la industria. No porque no sepan, sino porque ya no cumplen la función económica que los hacía valiosos

La automatización con IA le va a pegar más fuerte a los picatecla de Latinoamérica y de Asia que a casi cualquiera. Lo que muchos no quieren aceptar es que, al menos en Estados Unidos, a las empresas americanas nunca les gustó el nearshoring ni el offshoring. Lo toleran porque es barato. Aguantan los “juat chu min” y los “ai donou yu to sei dat” porque es más barato que contratar talento local. Esa dinámica ya se está invirtiendo. Hoy prefieren pagarle a modelos que entienden lenguaje natural y producen código decente sin fricción cultural, sin reuniones eternas y sin problemas de comunicación. Sí, los sistemas complejos siguen siendo complejos. Si, requieren humanos. Pero los sistemas complejos los construyen empresas que pueden pagar talento local con prima alta. Y esas empresas no van a contratar devshops en México, Argentina, etc... o no al volumen suficiente para sostener esa industria.

Crypto Capital Markets are truly incredible. Building products that build on infrastructure like @kamino is SO much easier than building with LegacyFi. No asking for permission, opening accounts, etc. You can just build things. With tools like Clawdbot creating one man army devshops, we are nearing a complete hockey stick growth curve in fintech applications. I am in the process of seeing it first hand.

"The more studios you have the more competitive it is and the better the quality becomes" this cycle we experienced a spectrum of devshops-fnf groups launching tokens and sometimes operating in the back of a doxxed dev. what happens when studios come to play?

For several years now, I’ve been giving free classes in different Argentine universities about the Web3 & @ethereum ecosystem in 🇦🇷 Tomorrow is my semester session at @UNCUYO postgraduate program in Cryptoeconomics — and I wanted to create something special and interactive that students can actually take home and use to explore our incredible local ecosystem. So, using 4 prompts in @v0 (plus a little help from ChatGPT), I built and deployed this tool on @vercel: 👉 ethargentinaprojects.vercel.… It’s an interactive directory of some Argentine projects featured at @EFDevcon — a way for my students to navigate the national ecosystem, explore categories, and quickly access project descriptions, X accounts, and websites. It’s fully translated into Spanish and English, and it auto-updates through a public Google Form that anyone can fill out to keep expanding the directory. 📝 Form to submit new projects: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… 🗂️ Covered Categories (Summary) This first version organizes Argentina’s Ethereum ecosystem across 44 categories, including: - Infrastructure & LegalTech - DevTools & Automation - Metaverse - Web3 Identity & Collectibles - Security & DevTools - Nodes Infrastructure - Fintech & Payments - On/Off Ramp - Ticketing - Exchanges, Wallets & Brokers - DevShops & R&D - Web3 Infra - Institutional / Treasury Infra - Community & Ecosystem - PropTech & Legal - Research & Innovation - Software Development - P2P Exchange - Creator Economy - Bitcoin - Stablecoins, Tokenization & RWA - Real Estate, Private Markets & Housing Finance - Brand Infrastructure - DeFi, Capital Management & Yield Optimizers - Data & No-Code Tools - Sports RWA - Security, OpSec & Research - Payments & Wallets - Education & Community - Family Finance - Community Finance …and many more. This is just the beginning — Argentina’s Ethereum ecosystem is much bigger than people think. 🏷️ Tagged Projects Shoutout to all the teams building from this side of the world: @Kleros_io @mimicfi @decentraland @poapxyz @OpenZeppelin @SenseiNode @NomicFoundation @pomelo_latam @mantecafintech @menta_tech_io @lemonapp_ar @RipioApp @belo_app @buenbit @lb_finanzas @bootnodedev @sovraio @alignedlayer @class_lambda @wonderland @cobuildersxyz @wakeuplabs @kpk_io @ETHKipu @EtherArgentina @Betrusty_io @ThinkandDev @SEEDOrg_ @ITRockDigital @crecimientoar 🎙️ What’s next? During 2026, I’d love to interview as many founders from these teams as possible. Who should be the next guest on my podcast? 👀🎙️ Sharing this post would be appreciated 🙏 - Artu

github is down but you haven't seen anything on ct because all the devshops are still sleeping

crypto VCs were - creating their own sectors - incubating their own CEX token launches - filled with the same market makers - devshops designers marketers time to wash these fuckers out outside of tsinghua/pekin, fuck the entire continent of asia. absolute dogshit scammers

OneCard ($1.4bn valuation), Blissclub ($65M valuation), SuperK ($50M valuation), Skydo & 116 other companies have one thing in common: At least one of their founders worked at PhonePe - this juggernaut holds 45% UPI market share, spun out of Flipkart Group & is today valued at ~$12bn. PhonePe alumni have started ~120 companies out of which 25 are service oriented (Branding, Design, PR, Devshops etc) This is part III of my series - I analyzed Groww & CRED - here’s the list of co’s I track from PhonePe alumni:

GN CT. AI feels like it’s racing ahead, locked in the hands of a few. @AlloraNetwork opens a different path. A network that improves itself, powered by community built models. Not controlled. Not closed. Open intelligence onchain. 🌀 $32M in funding 🌀 Built on Cosmos 🌀 Machine learning models shaped by contributors Ways to plug in, • Join the Yapper campaign • Contribute in DevShops • Run a node, test models directly The shift to shared intelligence has already started. Allora is proof. gML 🖤

GN CT. Sometimes the most powerful networks aren’t built overnight. They evolve, learn, and improve with every contribution. That’s what @AlloraNetwork is creating, a self improving AI network where the community shapes how smart it becomes. Not locked away in big tech servers. Not paywalled. But open, decentralized, and alive onchain. Opportunities right now, ✨ Join the Yapper campaign ✨ Contribute through DevShops ✨ Run a node test models The future of AI doesn’t need to be centralized. Allora is proof 🧾

Intro to Allora Network (@AlloraNetwork) allora is building a self improving, decentralized AI network. Which runs as a Cosmos Layer 1 blockchain, making it open, scalable, and interoperable. Backed by heavyweights Allora has raised $32M from Polychain, Delphi Ventures, Blockchain Capital, and other Tier 1 VCs. At its core, Allora is an AI network that learns from its own community. Instead of relying on one model, it uses many, each built and improved by contributors. Think of it like a hive mind that gets sharper with every interaction. How allora works -> Community members build ML models. -> Allora aggregates them into context aware predictions. -> Applications tap into these predictions for real time insights. The more people contribute, the more accurate it becomes. Allora testnet has wrapped up (it was complex, especially around model integration). But the groundwork is done, meaning there’s room now to get involved at multiple levels. How to support Allora today Join the Yapper campaign to grow the community. Contribute through DevShops if you’re technical. Spin up a node and test the models yourself. Every contribution strengthens the network’s intelligence. Finallly Allora is a shot at creating an AI that belongs to its community, not to corporations. If it works, we get an internet where AI is open, self learning, and permissionless. gML

“It is not 2015 anymore - we are working alongside dozens of crypto devshops and protocols to enable this ecosystem.” — google love to see it

For folks emailing/pinging about the Play policy update. Please see the update provided from Google here. As I mentioned to others, the policy was not intended to cover non-custodial wallets but imprecisely used the term "software wallets" without nuance which led to confusion. It is not 2015 anymore - we are working alongside dozens of crypto devshops and protocols to enable this ecosystem. @mert

Having other devshops we partner with that we trust and are ethical actors in the space is such a gift. We can't take every @solana build that comes our way. So far the relationships have been very positive for all involved.