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[Cardano Foundation @Cardano_CF]

Big news: we've partnered with the Brazilian Olympic Committee (@timebrasil) to transform Olympic sport with public blockchain, IoT, and AI.

The three-year roadmap aims to position COB as the global benchmark in sports innovation.

The best part? It's all powered by Cardano. ⚡️

[Token Terminal 📊 @tokenterminal]

Tokenization turns blockchains into infrastructure providers for global capital markets.

Not every chain will be trusted to issue, transfer, and store trillions of dollars of financial assets.

Here's where the non-USD stablecoin market stands today. 👇

[Nordic Blockchain Association @nordicblock]

If you're in Paris this week for @proofoftalk, don't forget to meet the Nordic Blockchain Association team ✨

You can catch us at these events:

Monday:
Crypto Mondays Paris: https://t.co/M4aeAC1Ss8

Tuesday:
Stablecoins and the New Economics of Global Payments: https://t.co/GfdzUYSxQs

On Trial: The Bitcoin Treasury Company Model: https://t.co/tG7svtd9If

Wednesday:
The 2026 Stablecoin Roundtable, co-hosted by Nordic Blockchain Association: https://t.co/TFR0JbAPjM

Bringing the Paxos Global Dollar Network to Europe: How Regulated, Network-Driven Stablecoins Are Unlocking Growth: https://t.co/WYrrfpMIRp

Thursday:
Scaling Blockchain for Public Good by United Nations Development Programme and SciencesPo: https://t.co/GkMcYCMhMJ

Let us know in the comments if we’ll see you in Paris - or reach out directly to Jakob Mikkel Hansen (@Jayks7), Magnus Jones (@themagnusjones), Emelie Moritz (@MLImoritz), and Tiia Paananen.

See you in Paris! 🇫🇷

[PALM Economy @palmeconomy]

What if Cardano became the backbone of global agriculture?

The 5am earth proposal could bring:

2M+ monthly active users
7–10M monthly transactions
Up to $1.2B in ecosystem contribution

All driven by real farmers, real commodities, and real agriculture workflows on Cardano.
This is what mainstream adoption looks like.

[⩜ 🍓 @CardanoTruth]

Could you provide a comprehensive mapping of the proposed mechanism? This should include an end-to-end process and interfaces. RWA and commodities are the areas we should focus on developing and blockchain can play a critical role in transparency and tracking, as well as trading.

Could you also provide information on the region of focus and the commodities involved? Additionally, please include any sustainability certifications and details on potential competitors within that region.

Also, what would be the trading platform? Can there be opportunities to leverage with @finest_tokenize ? Rather than compete we complement and leverage existing knowledge/infa…need to pivot from reinventing the wheel again.

[⩜ 🍓 @CardanoTruth]

This is highly encouraging. It is promising to see real‑world solutions adopting blockchain technology and selecting Cardano as their foundation.

It may be valuable to establish a dedicated space for presenting their accomplishments and facilitating discussions on how Cardano can serve as a robust platform for supporting this type of innovation.

[RWA Foundation @RWAFoundation_]

Tokenized stocks dominated May with $500M+ in inflows

followed by Private Equity, Strategies, Credit, and Government Bonds.

[$cash @CashAnvil]

11 days left in the Intersect process!

We need all the support we can get! Please vote!!! And if you haven't and would like to know more just DM me or reach out. I am an open book and this proposal will be a hit for Cardano.

I have been trying to DM people and do outreach, i get everyone is busy but these are people's livelihoods on the line.

I'm willing to put my entire rep on the line for it. I truly believe in this.

https://t.co/IuUoWckN9P

[RWA Foundation @RWAFoundation_]

The 6 fastest growing RWA issuers, measured by tokenized TVL across 2024, 2025, and 2026.

@Securitize ⭐️
@OndoFinance
@FTI_US
@Spiko_finance
@maplefinance ⭐️
@centrifuge

Three years ago most of these numbers didn't exist.

[Token Terminal 📊 @tokenterminal]

Tokenized assets are growing. Who benefits? Issuers.

There are 2 types of "issuers":

1. Asset managers that tokenize their own products (e.g. @SkyMoney)
2. Tokenization platforms that bring 3rd-party products onchain (e.g. @Securitize)

Here's where the market stands today. 👇

[⩜ 🍓 @CardanoTruth]

@Padierfind @ATADA_Stakepool Cardano must accelerate its engagement with RWA initiatives, or it risks falling behind once again. Establishing a strong RWA presence would provide a compelling foundation for meaningful market positioning.

https://t.co/0QCqeE2uea

[RWA Foundation @RWAFoundation_]

May RWA Inflow Race.

RWA Foundadion members @solana, @avax & @StellarOrg.

[RWA Foundation @RWAFoundation_]

May RWA Inflow Race.

RWA Foundadion members @solana, @avax & @StellarOrg.

[Token Terminal 📊 @tokenterminal]

🆕 New RWA dashboards:

🪙 Stablecoins · $306.1B
📜 RWAs · $41.8B
💼 Funds · $32.8B
🇺🇸 U.S. T-bills · $13.6B
💳 Credit funds · $4.3B
🛢️ Commodities · $7.4B
💹 Stocks · $2.1B
🧺 ETFs · $450.9M
🏡 Real estate · $1.3B
🇪🇺 Euro stablecoins · $761.2M
🛎️ Pre-IPO stocks · $448.7M

[⩜ 🍓 @CardanoTruth]

What?

Linux became one of the most widely used operating systems in the world with no marketing budget, no advertising campaigns, and no corporate PR machine behind it in its formative years.

It grew because:
1. It was technically superior for servers and infrastructure.
2. It offered unmatched stability and security.
3. Developers and enterprises adopted it because it worked better than alternatives.
4. Word‑of‑mouth and developer advocacy—not marketing—drove adoption.

Why cant Cardano do the same if it's so good?

I can keep going with numerous examples where MNE's didn't require marketing, because the product spoke for itself.

[Adam Dean @adamKDean]

There is a lot of criticism of the founding entities (IO, Emurgo, CF, Intersect) in regards to what their "mandate" is. What is their lane and should they or are they allowed/expected to drift outside of it?

What I don't believe we've ever asked ourselves, as the Cardano community, is: what is the mandate of the Treasury? Why does it exist? How long should it exist? What should it be used for?

We've seen heavy spending on research and development (R&D) and "core infrastructure", neither of which are ever able to provide clear, direct ROI to the Treasury by their nature. They create the rails of the ecosystem that potentially enable businesses to use and build on the Blockchain. This makes it difficult to ever truly assess the "value for money" of these spends and understand whether we are being financially prudent or excessive.

Contrast with a lot of the rationales that we see r.e. business development and marketing proposals. These proposals do have at least some clear ability to show that they bring users, transaction volume, and value to the ecosystem. Yet, there is a pervading feeling that I get personally, when reading these rationales, that all of this spend is expected to somehow justify and return all funding back to the Treasury.

My question is, why do we have this double standard? Why MUST the Treasury be refilled? This gets to the heart of what we believe the mission of the Treasury should be, collectively.

I would prefer to see that we encourage all proposals to demonstrate how the spending you're asking for now will, in the long term, decrease your reliance on funding from the Treasury in the future. A business (or program) that is sufficiently capitalized has their own funding for research and development, can contribute back to open source development (skill or funding) for critical infrastructure, and should invest in their own marketing and user acquisition to grow their own business which leaves more room for more R&D, etc...

I personally hope that we, as a community, do not view the Treasury as something that must exist in perpetuity to continuously fund business models and efforts that exist only to justify their ask in the following year; but instead exists to jump start a strong, stable, and flourishing economy that gives back and supports the critical infrastructure and community it relies upon.

Hording the Treasury like some dragon's mountain of gold, particularly in this industry, feels akin to stockpiling floppy disks at the time when writable CDs, DVDs, and USB sticks started to emerge. The writing is on the wall and we can either use the resources at our disposal to adapt to the times and ensure our long term future or we will be left with a pile of relatively useless plastic wondering why no one wants to buy them.

This does not mean I think we should blow through this great asset we have, we do still need to fund those things like R&D and infrastructure for at least a few more years while the economy grows, but we need to have a plan that transcends simply gazing upon and admiring "Our Precious".

[Dave @ItsDave_ADA]

Suddenly, blockchain reliability and resilience is really starting to matter across the industry, as more blockchains have constant outages, attacks and exploits.

For financial settlement, reliability is essential and security is a requirement.

That is exactly where Cardano stands out.

It has been built with both at the foundation, through its consensus design, staking model, ledger architecture and years of continuous operation.

When real value is being settled, the system has to keep working. It has to remain secure, predictable and resilient under pressure.

Cardano has spent years proving it can do exactly that.

[⩜ 🍓 @CardanoTruth]

Prioritizing marketing for its own sake - without first ensuring that the underlying network performance and cost structure are globally competitive - risks repeating the same pattern seen across the industry: visibility without retention, attention without conversion, and spending without measurable ecosystem growth.

Cardano’s long‑term credibility depends on delivering high‑throughput performance and lower transaction costs before attempting to scale public exposure. Without these fundamentals, marketing becomes a short‑lived signal rather than a sustainable growth engine.

The strategic path is clear:
> Increase TPS to levels that support real‑world, high‑volume applications.
> Reduce transaction costs to ensure competitiveness with chains already optimized for micro‑transactions and enterprise‑scale workloads.
> Accelerate RWA implementation, which remains the most credible driver of durable, non‑speculative user inflow. Real‑world assets require reliability, speed, and cost‑efficiency - once those are in place, adoption follows naturally.

Only after these pillars are firmly established does aggressive marketing become meaningful. At that point, Cardano would not be promoting potential, it would be promoting capability, backed by performance metrics and real economic activity.

Marketing should amplify proven strengths, not compensate for unresolved technical constraints. For this reason, a disciplined, infrastructure‑first approach is not a delay - it is the most responsible path toward sustainable ecosystem growth.

[⩜ 🍓 @CardanoTruth]

Your decision to vote NO is well‑founded. The absence of demonstrable ecosystem outcomes from prior iterations, combined with the proposal’s limited articulation of measurable impact, makes it difficult to justify the associated costs.

As with the Cardano Summit, the core issue is not the quality of the event experience itself - community gatherings are consistently described as enjoyable and energizing - but rather the lack of clear metrics to evaluate whether these events generate meaningful external engagement or ecosystem growth. When attendee feedback centers on familiar faces and limited new inflows, it becomes challenging to defend large sponsorship expenditures without supporting data.

Your comparison to the Summit’s potential spillover effects from Token2049 is also totally valid. In the absence of a similar external catalyst for RareEVO, the justification for a major sponsorship becomes even weaker. Ensuring that future proposals include defined KPIs, post‑event reporting structures, and evidence‑based projections would significantly improve decision‑making and accountability.

Given these considerations, your NO vote aligns with a prudent and metrics‑driven approach to treasury stewardship.

[⩜ 🍓 @CardanoTruth]

@adamKDean @astroboysoup We must ensure that individuals who are staking or nominating a dRep have clear visibility into the potential consequences of their decisions.

It is essential for the community to have a heightened awareness of the impact their choices may carry for the broader ecosystem.