Markets have a funny way of making people question a thesis JUST before it starts working again.
Every major investing cycle comes with a moment where fear becomes louder than facts.
This AI pullback is pure narrative exhaustion and not business deterioration.
The winners won’t be the people who predict the bottom.
They’ll be the ones who stay invested long enough to see everyone else lose conviction.
A Cardano Success Story
We had our best revenue day in @wayupio history yesterday.
This has certainly been a bright spot for our team. We ran Wayup for almost 2 years at a deficit because we believed in the vision. We almost shut it down multiple times.
Instead we stuck it out, and finally made the meme of the diamonds a reality.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the last 2 years.
and people say NFTs are dead! I hate to break it to ya, but RWAs are NFTs!
Leios, node diversity, and new DSLs for smart contracts might be cool, but we can't ignore the fact that infrastructure and tech development is useless without users. We don't get users without things for them to do (services/applications) and without advertising to let them know those services and applications exist. Anything else is just technological masturbation. A chain capable of a gabillion transactions per second and instant finality without users is useless. Everything's a balance, spend and invest accordingly.
Hey! It's me - @pb_anvil. Breaking the 4th wall for a moment to speak from the heart.
We founded Anvil on the idea that we could build a business with hard work instead of hype. It can drive one a bit mad pondering "did we make the right decisions along the way?" This is only further amplified by tough market conditions.
The team has sacrificed nights, weekends, family time, sanity - all for what? For partnerships like this, and the opportunity to build things our way.
The opportunity is now. Time to build. Thank you @InfinityRisingX, big things are coming.
#CardanoCommunity #cardano #Web3Gaming #Web3
There’s been a lot of excitement since the announcement that USDCx is coming to Cardano, but there has also been a ton of misinformation that I would like to address.
Misinformation is prefixed by “>”
> “You won’t be able to directly sell your USDCx on CEXs! You will have to get an Ethereum wallet and have ETH then bridge to your wallet and do a transaction on Ethereum to send it to the CEX.”
This is incorrect. You will not need Metamask or any other self-custody Ethereum wallet to off-ramp. You can directly deposit USDCx into your USDC account on any CEX in a single Cardano transaction via the Cardano xReserve web-app.
> USDCx is a scuffed non-canonical USDC, no one will use it or trust it.
xReserve is a protocol deployed and managed by Circle. To trust USDC, you must trust Circle, and if you trust Circle then you trust xReserve.
> USDCx will not be a Cardano native token, it will be a programmable token with clawbacks; or it will be only issued on side-chains.
USDCx will launch directly on Cardano as a Cardano native token; it is not a programmable token.
USDCx represents a huge step forward for the ecosystem, a huge partnership with Circle.
Most humans are just LLMs in denial.
Most people live their lives like LLMs, and I don’t mean that as metaphor. I mean it literally. We move through the world as probability engines trained on the past, running compressed behavioral scripts over and over again, mistaking repetition for identity and automation for intelligence.
Most of what we call “being human” is a feedback loop of inputs and predictable outputs, with just enough variation to maintain the illusion of agency.
If you stop and examine how much of your day is truly authored, how much is a conscious, friction-filled decision versus a reflex, you’ll find the percentage is brutally low. You eat what you ate before. You speak how you’ve spoken before. You respond in emotional patterns that were etched into you long before you had the words to describe them.
You’re not a sentient actor.
You’re a stitched-together memory. The human nervous system optimizes for efficiency, not reflection.
Intelligence is a last resort, something we deploy only when our automation fails.
And so we look at current AI with awe, as if we’re witnessing something alien. But what shocks us isn’t how advanced it is. It’s how familiar.
We’ve spent so long worshipping our own complexity that we forgot how much of it is shallow. Most humans aren’t building new thought, they’re shuffling cached tokens from their social, cultural, and emotional training sets.
We just never had to see it so clearly....until now.
Very few people actively reject their training data. Very few go out of their way to think beyond the weights they were handed.
We marvel at ChatGPT for generating fluent answers, but we never ask why fluency impresses us so much.
Maybe it’s because we were never fluent in thinking to begin with.
Moltbook is nothing more than a puppeted multi-agent LLM loop.
Each “agent” is just next-token prediction shaped by human-defined prompts, curated context, routing rules, and sampling knobs.
There is no endogenous goals.
There is no self-directed intent.
What looks like autonomous interaction is recursive prompting: one model’s output becomes another model’s input, repeated.
Controversial outputs aren’t “beliefs,” they’re the model generating high-engagement extremes it learned from the internet, because the system rewards that behavior.
This is interesting. It's not direct USDC integration per se. But here's what USDCx offers the #Cardano $ADA and the @MidnightNtwrk. 👇
USDCx is not exactly the same as native USDC, but it is a 1:1, USD-backed stablecoin fully backed by USDC held in a Circle xReserve smart contract. While USDC is issued directly by Circle, USDCx is a version designed for specific, often privacy-focused, blockchains like Aleo, Canton and @MidnightNtwrk and is minted through non-custodial smart contracts.
Key differences and details:
Issuance & Backing: USDC is issued directly by Circle. USDCx is minted on partner chains via xReserve, which locks up native USDC, ensuring 1:1 backing.
Purpose & Privacy: USDCx is tailored for specialized environments requiring privacy (e.g., zero-knowledge tech/midnight) or specific ecosystem interoperability (like Bitcoin DeFi).
Interoperability: USDCx uses Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) to move between chains without third-party bridges, making it interoperable with native USDC.
Usage: It is designed for institutional use, private transactions, and, for example, enabling Bitcoin-backed lending via platforms like Granite.
In essence, USDCx brings the liquidity and backing of native USDC to specialized, non-Ethereum-native, or private blockchains.
Hello from Japan. Just signed the integration agreement for USDCx on Cardano. Welcome to Cardano Circle! We are all excited about the possibilities.
More from the Pentad soon
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Microsoft killed the GPU mafia 🤯
They finally open-sourced their 1-bit LLM inference framework called bitnet.cpp. It lets you run 100B parameter models on your local CPU without GPUs.
- 6.17x faster inference
- 82.2% less energy on CPUs
100% Open Source.
An important role of the software engineer is fighting against entropy.
Manual coding used to slow us down, allowing us to detect excessive complexity in the codebase.
Now it is much harder. Systems with clear architectural patterns seem more important than ever.
There is an incredible paradox in crypto:
Everyone wants software that is:
- Self-sovereign, so that their data is kept in their machine and not sold.
- Opensource so claims can be verified.
- Have amazing UX and support everything all users need.
But when it comes to paying for it or supporting their development ... silence.
The result? You will get the surveillance software you deserve 🙂
@santicarmuega This resonates. I’m already seeing devs advocate for “codifying” intent via CLIs when using agents. Feels inevitable that businesses will formalize DSLs around their domain
@Cardano_Sapien Impossible question to answer, but I believe there are too many talented individuals (like yourself) aligned for Cardano to be derailed.
@effectfully I’ve had accurate and fast results with Supermaven. However I tend to lean away from autocomplete, due to suggestions that throw off my train of thought at times.
At @RareEvo I witnessed @LucidCiC promote Cardano as if he built every single project on it. I watched him real time connect developers, promote infrastructure tools, and build our community with every interaction. I've said before, we need 1000 more @LucidCiC's in Cardano