Why I'm not a DRep anymore, by Johnny Kelly: Once I was asked to critically read and critique ~195 Proposals, Submitted Ad-Hoc, and try to make a *truly informed* Yes/No decision on whether or not they should receive funding. Even in working areas in which I have absolutely no formal experience. I Retired as a DRep. It felt like the only honest option for me. Anything else would have felt like misrepresenting my level of expertise/understanding in certain aspects of the Ecosystem (e.g. Marketing) or not being honest about how much time I'd *really* spent reading over *every* Proposal's content. I would have been fine with having a say in what the overall list of *Work Items* to be *fulfilled* were, with that fulfilment then being worked out via specialised Groups collaborating alongside any ADA Community Member who wanted to contribute their experience and understanding towards Awarding final Funding Allocations. I *wasn't* fine with having to weigh in on Full Allocation of Funding to Vendors across multiple aspects of Ecosystem Development and Support all in one go (in 12 days), without being able to have a say in the actual *Work Items* to be fulfilled in the first place (yes there was the Roadmap Vote, but it was superceded by what actually happened next). We were going to have a formalised and structured Budget to be systematically worked at one point. It got replaced with a free-for-all ad-hoc submissions process. Once that happened, I was out.

The Mainnet Plutus Cost Model update has been ratified on June 13, 2026 at 21:45 UTC. Enactment: June 18, 2026 at 21:4 UTC REMINDER for DApps and developers to test their setups on Preview/Preprod ahead of Mainnet enactment to ensure that they aren't negatively impacted by any cost model changes. While the newly introduced primitives do not take effect until after the hard fork, existing cost models will be updated at the enactment of the parameter update action on June 18.

Community Spotlight Each time a hard fork event comes around for Cardano, community tooling always turns up to help the ecosystem track readiness across various areas. A moment to highlight those efforts: SPO readiness/block production: pooltool.io/networkhealth adatool.net/spo-versions adastat.net/blocks cexplorer.io/analytics/netwo… HF/Exchange readiness: cardanoscan.io/hfReadiness cexplorer.io/hardfork HF Knowledge Base pages: cardanoupgrades.docs.interse… @Pooltoolio @ada_stat @cexplorer_io @cardanoscanio @yutazzz

Ecosystem participants are highly encouraged to upgrade and test their setups on Protocol Version 11. Cardano Node 11.0.1: github.com/IntersectMBO/card… DB-Sync 13.7.1.0: github.com/IntersectMBO/card… Ogmios 6.14.0.2: github.com/IntersectMBO/ogmi… Kupo 2.11.0.1: github.com/IntersectMBO/kupo… Rosetta Java 2.2.0: github.com/cardano-foundatio…

van Rossem hard fork update 🍴 The Cardano PreProd testnet has enacted the hard fork action on June 10, 2026 at 00:00 UTC and is now on Protocol Version 11. The final checkpoint before progress moves to Mainnet, SPOs. DApps, developers and exchanges are highly encouraged to test their setups and provide feedback so that the Hard Fork Working Group can make an informed decision on Mainnet submission timelines. CardanoScan: preprod.cardanoscan.io/govAc… AdaStat: preprod.adastat.net/governan…

That's because we're asking the wrong questions of the voters. It's a process problem. Here are X people that are going to go out and do mission Y and they need Z capital to make it happen: okay, go. Instead we're being inundated with every question and detail of minutiea that of course no one (no one, full stop) can be an expert in all of the decision making. We don't need to elect a king or "executive council" to run everything for us, but we need to switch to domain-expertise function and trust and hold accountable that execution. We probably, through the entire community, do, in fact, have access to experts in literally everything, we just have to figure out how to put the right people in the right spots and let them cook

The governance is fine, it's the Treasury and the fact that for years we were told it was OUR greatest asset as the Cardano community. A network of people who have collectively invested their time, energy, and money on the future dream of financial independence and store of value... It doesn't take a PhD to realize people will behave in a way that they believe builds their wealth. Spend money to make money, sure, but not many people are successful at that (most startups fail), so doing everything to simply preserve the value that exists becomes the de facto position. The drama is all around who should get the Treasury and how much. Little to no discussion about protocol parameter updates, hard forks, etc. I've been right there with you of late that the sooner the Treasury is gone the better off this whole thing will be

🤔SPOs want to know how to vote on the Incentives Ekklesia ballot? 🧵... 1) If you don't have a Calidus Key follow guide here: ecp.gitbook.io/how-to-guides…

Wait... Stargate was cancelled for being too much like... STARGATE? What?

Oh, and this happened.

I remember the time when just mentioning the word “RFP”would make you a target for a mob. RFPs are the way to go. If done right, they make your treasury cardano:native go a long way. #Cardano $ADA

Where I stopped briefly on my way back from all the places I was going, intentionally and unintentionally, today after leaving them all behind to head home to where I've been staying...

Been thinking about things. Anyone wanna put me up for a week in America in September time? Am willing to arrange fair rates for use of a room.

Where I accidentally ended up, on the opposite side of where I was going before, after leaving where I went to after going where I was going...

Where I went to after going where I was going, and where I just left...

Where I was going from where I was, and where I am now...

Where I am today...