If you're a Cardano holder, please repost this immediately.
We've come to an absolute defining moment for ADA.
In the next 48 hours, the proposals that fund Cardano development are being decided.
While the #2 chain in crypto loses their builders or researchers, Cardano can keep theirs, at one of the most critical times of the altcoin cycle.
Cardano has come this far. It can not stop here.
DReps, think about the impact here.
Holders, make your voice heard.
This war has revealed a bitter
truth for us Arabs & real Muslims
in the UAE & the Gulf:
Europe is no longer the Europe
we used to know.. The Europe of
beauty, culture, humanity & art
the one we looked up to, studied in
& learned so much from, is gone !
Now it feels like a third-world
country a refuge for failures
a safe haven for extremists
run by the Muslim Brotherhood
IRGC agents & every terrorist who
got kicked out of the Middle East!
Europe has sadly lost its identity.
Soon the the native European will
feel like strangers in their own land
watching their society get worse
& worse all with the blessing of their
own leaders!!
It’s a painful, pathetic joke..
I’m sorry, but I have to post this
warning (Video) again. It was from
10 years ago. I don’t know if it’ll make
any difference anymore, but I’m
sharing it for the fifth time anyway!
We've seen light and darkness, we've grown, and we'll prevail. NFTs are still my way of life.
Back then communities felt so powerful we used to believe we could accomplish anything. The feeling of being in an industry where you can dream impossible goals and grow a community that believes in them is still inside me, and it drives me every day. Everyone in the NFT space has felt it, it was real... Until it became our own trap.
We started speculating on every new hyped collection inflating our own bubble, buying no product scams "for the culture" and fake AAA studios never meant to be built. We forgot that our real power is that we can actually build the dreams we're selling. But why build if promises are enough for fast gains. Some founders, the ones still around today, believe our dreams can come true. They know it takes time and patience, two virtues that are not very attractive to crypto investors, but a price real builders are willing to pay. I'm happy to be one of them.
I build for Solana NFTs to become global brands, to compete with Nintendo and become as famous as Super Mario, but staying realistic about what I can build today to make it happen. I'm not the usual web3 gaming builder, my products are not powered by NFT technology, but by the real NFT culture, the one we all felt in the beginning. I want gamers to feel what we felt in their own way, not through wallets or tokens, but through Monke, Bonk, Gecko… characters that can earn their hearts with the coolest games, events, and real world assets. We'll let people slowly discover the energy of the community driven brands behind those characters, so they can choose to experience what it truly means to be part of something you actually belong to, in a way only NFTs make possible.
@solana_sailor@staratlas@solanagaming@solana Still here and still invested i believe in what they are doing and hoping to achieve... this is a gamers dream for a lot of people and kuddos to the team working so hard for it.
A Solana gaming story that shows how challenging on-chain gaming really is: @staratlas 👇
• 2020 - the vision
AAA game: a massive on-chain space MMO
not just a game, but a full sci-fi metaverse with ships, factions, economy, and player ownership
• pre-launch - foundation
led by @at_mwagner (not from traditional gaming)
ambition was enormous from day one
• 2021 2022 - hype
NFT ships generate millions
team scales aggressively → ~235 people at peak
• 2022 - shock
FTX collapse hits hard
~$15.5M lost from treasury, plus other major damage from the same period
• 2023 - reality
multi-million monthly burn
AAA scope proved too heavy to sustain
→ layoffs ~120 people cut (~73%)
→ team goes from ~167 → ~45
• 2023 2024 - pivot
focus shifts to survival + shipping
SAGE (on-chain gameplay)
mobile app
economy first
at times in October 2023, it reached ~15% of Solana daily transactions
• 2025 today - rebuild
SAGE Labs stays live
Holosim adds another playable layer
the product becomes more real, even if slower than the original dream
• ahead - direction
C4 and Zink now look like the next big steps
focus is on cheaper gameplay, deeper systems, and the next major releases
building games is hard
building AAA games is harder
building them on-chain is a different level entirely
many would have walked away
credit to Star Atlas for still being here, still building, and doing it the right way
hopefully the future of Solana gaming is built by teams like this 🎮
The Islamic regime has confirmed the death of 18 year old Melika Azizi was carried earlier today. Melika told the judge: "You let so many young people bleed. How can I remain silent? I don't care just kill me"
She was a brave young lady!
Now gone.
A crime to humanity.
HE IS 16.
His name is Mohammad Hossein Shokri.
Not a criminal.
Not a threat.
A child.
Arrested while working, selling corn cobs.
Sentenced to death.
Let that sink in:
A 16-year-old facing execution.
Don’t scroll.
Don’t stay silent.
Say his name. Share it everywhere.
A child has been sentenced to execution by hanging in Occupied Iran.
Diana Taherabadi is only 16.
The Islamic Regime dragged her out bed, confiscated her family's phones, and kidnapped her.
It takes a second for you to speak up. DO IT.
Cardano fucking exhausts me.
and.
It's also a place where people from wildly different backgrounds with wildly different ideas have maintained a real discourse through 8+ years of pandemic, war, wildfires, political polarization, ecological collapse, forced migration, enshittification...and on and on, you know it because you've lived through it.
And there's something worse than exhaustion: resignation.
So much of the stress on this ecosystem is stress on the world. We're the motherfuckers who kept trying to change it anyway.
And I love you for that. Don't quit, there's work to do.
Straks met je rollator in de ochtendfile naar kantoor,
waar de lift is vervangen door een traplift met wachtrij, de bedrijfsarts een geriater is
en je functioneringsgesprek begint met: “Hoe zijn de heupen dit kwartaal?”
Zin in. 😅
Why are all the Cardano FUDers showing this image?
Hasn't anyone noticed that it was last updated on September 13, 2021?
Does anyone have a fresher overview?