#Cardano fam, a history lesson.
What happened to Solana.
FTX implosion.
Alameda implosion.
SBF goes to jail.
Gary Gensler
Op Chokepoint.
Silvergate bank collapse.
Inflation.
Gaza war.
Etc.. Etc…
$Sol falls to $8. Everyone was writing its eulogy. It’s done. No leadership. Directionless. Stained by criminals.
And then what happened. It had one of the best runs 2024-2025.
Crypto is a PysOps.
Cardano, as long as we make the right decisions and trust the right leaders has its best days ahead.
$ADA @IOHK_Charles@RickMcCracken
After reflecting deeply on this governance process, a few things are clearer to me than ever.
Cardano is alive. The community is engaged. And that matters more than any single vote.
But this process has shown me something important: Cardano's governance is real. You are not passive holders. You are owners. That is exactly what we built this for.
It has also reminded me that when Cardano has needed it most, the Pentad delivered. IOG, EMURGO, the Cardano Foundation, Midnight Foundation, and Intersect have proven they can coordinate and bring critical integrations to life when the ecosystem needed it. That coordination layer matters now more than ever.
So let me show up the way I should.
I will be in Singapore for the Cardano Summit and I will be on stage. I am also personally committing to partially top up our Token2049 sponsorship to Title level. Being on that main stage is where Cardano and Midnight need to be heard.
To the Pentad, I am inviting all of you to sit down and have a real conversation about the future of governance and how we formalise this coordination going forward.
I am 100% focused on Cardano and Midnight. Always have been. Let me prove it. #strongertogether
I've begun a comprehensive governance review of over 11,000 DAOs and a decade of literature in and out of our space to study executive function, roadmap, and strategy setting. The goal will be to propose some ideas to add new features to Cardano's governance via the constitution and new technology that will resolve much of the conflict we are facing.
I'm considering if it is prudent at this point to become a Drep and to host a new mini-convention to get it done in time for the 2027 process. More on this later. #CardanoUnityAndClarity
Attention SPOs!!! We need you to update to 11.0.1. It has better performance, is hard fork ready and reduces chances of forks from larger blocks! Let's go folks! While there's still downstream tooling integrating, none of that affects block producers. Thanks all!!!
Hello Cardano! 🫡
Consensus (Leios) proposal, current status:
🗳️DReps: 57.55% Yes
→ we need >67% to pass.
🗳️Constitutional Committee: 3 YES votes 42.85%
→ we need >66.66%
Voting ends on Sunday!
The IO Research proposal future-proofs Cardano and builds long-term resilience for post-quantum security.
The quantum threat is a long term reality and the time to prepare is now! Layer by layer, Cardano is being hardened.
Vote now: https://t.co/w4RvEv5nY4
"Cardano is leading the entire cryptocurrency industry in this. Bitcoin and Ethereum the other two big guys, they've recused themselves. They've said we don't want to do on-chain governance. In the case of Bitcoin, it's anarchy. Great, they can't change. Which means they have to live with design decisions made by a single person more than 13 years ago and hope to god it's still relevant 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now. There's no way to change it. Well good luck! As for Ethereum, the founder said on-chain governance is a fool's errand you can't do it, you can't achieve it.
Okay, so how do you deal with the fact that when you have hundreds of millions of users - you have to represent them? Their needs, their voice, their particular use cases. How do you make a product backlog, without making yourself king for life. Is that decentralized? Is that what we signed up for? Having a beneficent leader who lives on the mountain top? How are we any better than what we assert that we're going to replace? The only way we're going to get it done, is to build an on-chain government; and why they don't do it is because they're scared. They don't know how. There's trust issues. It's hard.
2100 days plus, the Cardano network has been running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by you. The stake pool operators, never down, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Microsoft has gone down since then. Google has gone down for 20 minutes. Amazon has gone down. Think about that, trillion dollar massive corporations with hundreds of thousands of people, the best engineers, mountains of money - and they own the fucking hardware, we don't. Just a bunch of people come together, never met each other, are running this protocol. That's something that is very special and it should never be discounted, it should never be trivialized, and we can never allow other people in the cryptocurrency space to take it for granted - it's a sacred thing.
So, that's our challenge. And that is why Cardano I feel is probably going to become the the biggest cryptocurrency in the world. I think it's going to become more than a cryptocurrency. I think it's going to become the backbone of a new digital nation. A new society. A place where we can finally begin to trust each other again. A place where we do our voting. A place where our money lives. A place where our digital life is."
-Charles Hoskinson, 8/25/2023
The crypto market structure bill has PASSED the Senate Banking Committee with a bi-partisan vote!
Historic day for crypto and for the future of digital assets in America. Grateful for the countless hours from lawmakers and staff to strengthen this legislation. Big improvement from where we were in January on rewards, tokenization, DeFi, and CFTC authority. I'm proud we stood up for our customers in that moment, and the bill is better because of it.
Looking forward to a bipartisan law that cements the US as the world's crypto capital. Let's get CLARITY done.
Breaking News
The CLARITY Act has officially passed the Senate Banking Committee markup!
This is one of the most significant regulatory developments the digital asset industry has seen in years and could reshape how blockchains, digital assets, stablecoins, and decentralised infrastructure are treated in the United States going forward.
CARDANO WHALES KEEP BUYING THE DIP
Cardano (@Cardano) whales have steadily accumulated $ADA since December 2023 despite heavy market losses, Santiment data shows.
Wallets holding at least 1 million ADA now control 25.09 billion tokens. That represents roughly 67.47% of the total existing ADA supply.
The accumulation comes even after ADA lost 71% of its market capitalization over nine months.
JUST IN: The new U.S. crypto market structure bill does NOT classify decentralized “network tokens” as securities under federal securities laws.
The framework heavily favors:
• Decentralized governance
• Open-source infrastructure
• Non-custodial staking
• Distributed validator participation
Cardano checks every box.