The double standard on Cardano makes me sick. 🤢 For years we have pushed millions over millions in Catalyst projects that never saw the daylight, were never used, created no benefit or usage for the daily Cardano user. And that all was fine. Now we have a highly respected Community Wallet that is used by a massive amount of users, that is creating benefits for everyone. With a clear plan to be self sustainable via Pro-Subscriptions in the future. No user wants to pay extra for a transaction, no user wants Ads in there wallet. All should be free, let "someone" else pay for my convinience, right? We have a team that has proven over the years that they keep up with the lastest technology on Cardano, often frontrunning it for you. Now the team is asking for financial support to become a profitable self sustaining Wallet. And the reaction of the NO voters is: Bro, they should be profitable already. Why should we support them when there will be Pro-Subscriptions? Mimimi... 🤬 That are the same users that would never pay extra for a transaction. The Eternl Team has proven that they have a product thats highly used and needed by the community. So lets help them to complete there mission. We neef success stories on Cardano, not another failure. 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 Thx.

The Cardano community is strong and has many good people in it. I am confident we will get our sh*t together to be more productive in governance. Charles is proposing amongst other things a new governance discussion structure based on the merits of ideas and not based on the standing and sympathy level of the proposers. This is a prerequisite for good ideation and also done in e.g. Design Sprints when presenting solution sketches of participants. The sketches are presented by neutral moderators, the author of the sketch is usually not revealed to allow judgment based on merits alone. We need the same principles in Cardano governance. Charles proposes for this Chatham House Rules enforced by Midnight Zero Knowledge Selective Disclosure and Rules of Conduct with strict moderation. This is in my view a perfect match. Personally, I can't wait to upgrade our minimal viable constitution and governance processes to the next iteration. I always enjoy constructive discussions focussed on the growth and success of Cardano. The future is bright. 💪

All STR8 pool Cardano nodes are updated to Cardano node 11.0.1, ready for the Van Rossem Hardfork coming up, soon! If you are an SPO and have not upgraded yet, please do upgrade now, to signal readiness. No replay needed between 10.7.1 and 11.0.1 github.com/IntersectMBO/card…

What is Peras? Peras is an upgrade to cardano that dramatically improves transaction finality. Today, you may wait ~12 minutes to be highly confident a transaction is permanent. With peras, that confidence could come in around 2 minutes. Faster finality means a better experience for users, dapps, partner chains, exchanges and the wider cardano ecosystem. it's one of the key building blocks for cardano's next phase of growth.

Next year, Cardano is going to heights it's never been before. We got Bitcoin DeFi, Midnight, Patnerchains, all the DApp upgrades, Midgard, and some extra magic that we'll call "the fire rises"

DReps: Proposal to fund Eternl Wallet will be active for 3 more days. You can still vote. The Eternl DRep Committee abstained. Some DReps may have seen this as an obstacle to a YES vote. They can now reconsider their vote.

Four major engineering feats Cardano accomplished in the blockchain space: ✅ Layer 2 scaling capable of 1 MILLION TPS ✅ Proof of Stake self healing Nakamoto Consensus ✅ Full on-chain governance by the Ada Holders ✅ Privacy with selective disclosure Huge thanks to @IOGroup 🫡

A key part of the Orion Fund's structure is Draper Dragon’s venture studio, the team responsible for incubating new products on Cardano and working directly with builders across the ecosystem. On June 22nd at 8:00 AM PST, we'll be officially introducing the venture studio team and sharing more about how they'll build and collaborate on Cardano in the coming years. Link to the space: x.com/i/spaces/1rGmqqznryVGy…

a lot of people mistake cardano governance discussions on X as “fud” when in reality, it’s change, debate, and community governance happening in real time having a dedicated place in discord where people can discuss cardano governance without the rage bait, engagement farming, and ego stroking might be one of the best things for cardano i’m bullish

Look what arrived today. Can't believe we made it into one of Switzerlands most important finance newspapers talking about Agent Payments with Masumi 😅

Not to be hard-selling and putting pressure on Dreps... BUT! I genuinely hope that more Dreps throw a YES vote towards the 5am proposal. This is the type of real-world use case we were always supposed to be solving for with Cardano - and why I first came around. Worth it I say!

Very interesting DRep voting analysis by Yuta 👀👇

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Stoked to see all the positive reactions on the TL about this announcement. Thought I'd give you the inside scoop from the guy whose job it is to bring Cardano to this table. I wear suits when I need to, but the pfp stays on forever. Get your cuppa, this is an actual read! ☕️ TLDR: 5 years of Cardano x UNDP work just crystallised into a Blockchain Advisory Group launch with @CardanoFoundation as a founding member, a flagship 42-use-case report, and 21 Cardano-linked solutions running live with UNDP on the ground. The thread breaks each one down on scale, on-chain activity, and business model. The bigger question - how pilots become procurement, how this gets funded and governed at scale - that answer is coming. I've been working with UN agencies since 2021. The hype cycle was running hot. Back then, every institution wanted to "do blockchain." Most hit the same walls: marketing stunts, shelved pilots, glorified databases, or emotional/philosophical dismissal. The ones that stayed in the game - learned, iterated, built - are now sitting on something genuinely valuable. @UNDP did that. Specifically @UNDP_AltFinLab is the clearest example. A rare pocket of institutional freedom to explore alternative finance seriously. Their theory of change runs three layers deep: Awareness → Capacity → Acceleration Research and publications. Events. The Blockchain Academy. And at the centre: the SDG Blockchain Accelerator. The Cardano treasury seed funded that Accelerator in @Catalyst_onX F13 (regardless of the CF vote btw). Not charity. A calculated bet that building both sides of a market - builders who understand procurement-grade requirements, institutions that understand blockchain - was worth funding directly from the community's own resources. That bet is compounding. Pilot & commercial opportunities are coming to the cohort. The Accelerator is now multichain. Cohort 3 is coming. Graduates are building real things with real traction post-acceleration. It also produced "New Tech, New Partners" - UNDP's flagship blockchain report. 42 real-world use cases. Prefaced by the boss of UNDP himself. When UNDP publishes something like that, every public-sector organisation & government on earth takes notice. Yes Cardano community. You made this happen. You seeded the movement bc you're a blockchain with a purpose. The BAG launch last week formalises what was already forming: a structured advisory relationship between UNDP and the blockchain industry. @CardanoFoundation at the table from day one - not by asking to be there, but because the track record got us invited there. The questions that matter now: → How do successful pilots move into institutional procurement? → How do UN agencies building blockchain programmes stop duplicating and start collaborating? → How is this funded, governed, implemented at scale? Pilotitis isn't solved by better pilots. It's solved by building both sides of the market - with capital and political will behind the gap between pilot and procurement. We're working on that answer. More soon. Now a nice thread: every Cardano-linked pilot solution featured in "New Tech, New Partners" - starting with the two that have broken out of the pack 👇 we be global & onchain 🌍🌎🌏 PS: some of these pilots were built by web2 & web3 onboarded onto cardano!

Cardano Stacks Major Wins in May Cardano (@Cardano) says May was one of its most active months yet. Key developments included regulated $ADA futures on CME Group, a three year partnership with the Brazilian Olympic Committee, and 20 governance actions running simultaneously. The ecosystem is also preparing for another hard fork as development activity accelerates. The Foundation said institutional adoption continues to gain momentum.

Greetings from the Serviceplan headquarters in Munich. Things to be discussed, deals to be made. Let's go Masumi.

The Unified Global Events Marketing Strategy was designed to help us bring the Cardano brand to the whole world. Supported by Treasury funding, and in collaboration with @emurgo_io, @IntersectMBO, and @RareNetworkWeb3, we worked to bring heightened visibility not just to Cardano, but to 76 ecosystem projects. Comprising 20 distinct events, this strategy ensured we could bring a united vision of Cardano to events in Rio, Nairobi, Singapore, Hong Kong, Miami, Paris and more. The results are in, and we exceeded all major KPIs. Because Cardano is stronger when we stand together.

A Budget Vote countdown timer has been set up. Please vote as soon as possible to give the proposers a chance to respond! 🙏🙏🙏 adatool.net/budget-2026-vote…

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