CryptoXDaPlug

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Thinking out loud: what a Web3 utopia stack could look like.

ICP/Arweave = Web3 hosting + permanent storage
Flux = DePIN cloud compute (AI, nodes, heavy workloads)
Cardano = settlement & coordination hub
Midnight = privacy/policy/control plane
SOL/Zcash/ETH/BTC/EVMs/etc.. = specialized L1 components

Enterprise killer: finance/healthcare/AI/DePIN/supply chain

What do y'all think?
@dfinity @ArweaveEco @Cardano @MidnightNtwrk @IOHK_Charles @dominic_w @RunOnFlux @cypherpunkX

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@KurTS6169 @IOHK_Charles @Sssebi This will happen once there is on-chain activity on Midnight.

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With the recent culling of projects in the Cardano ecosystem, and what some would reasonably call rugs, there is clear evidence of a lack of business acumen somewhere in the pipeline. If people allocating capital cannot distinguish between real operators and weak, overfunded narratives, that is not just bad luck.

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@RickMcCracken @jasonappleton @IsauroBargas The same crypto bros people listen to on YouTube are the exact same people that fckd them

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@ItsDave_ADA @yutazzz Great question!

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@ItsDave_ADA @JaromirTesar You 2 are my favourites.. just saying!

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Agreed. You need incentives if you want to attract the right people with the right expertise. Serious people do not take on executive responsibility, political heat, and accountability for free.

An executive layer should exist to set direction, shape the roadmap, and make strategic decisions based on a collective view of what Cardano actually needs. The saturation mechanism is a sensible safeguard too.

But yes, the real bottom line is that none of this matters until the system itself changes first. The structure of governance has to be defined before we can sensibly decide who should sit in it and how they should operate.

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Yes, and at this point the community can already get a decent sense of who should be trusted with certain decisions just by reading DRep rationales and their general communication. That’s a big reason I’m selective about which DReps I engage with.

It’s not just about pushing my own views either. It’s also about learning from the ones who actually respond thoughtfully, because some clearly understand the commercial and technical side far better than others.

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My view is that Cardano probably needs an elected executive or governance body, voted in through governance itself. But if a DRep wants a seat, they should vacate the DRep role, otherwise you start blurring oversight and execution.

And let’s be honest, this won’t work on goodwill alone. If you want competent people to carry real responsibility, there need to be proper incentives, clear deliverables, and consequences for poor performance.

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I wouldn’t take that post as “Charles wants to be a DRep.” I’d take it as him recognising that Cardano’s governance model is not fit for purpose in its current form. Governance needs actual structure, qualified people, and executive-level competence and not just open participation for the sake of appearances.

Very few DReps seem to understand the commercial and technical realities of running a blockchain ecosystem. A handful do. Many clearly do not.

Bluntly, not everyone's Yoda and Dave and a couple mother who actually understand and know what they're doing.

Still, if Charles wants to change the system, he has to do it through the system. Those changes would still need to go through governance.

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@steinschleuder3 @IOHK_Charles I agree 100% on this!

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@ItsDave_ADA @davidtwltr @IOHK_Charles And I'm excited to see what you end up cooking in the lab.

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Hey Charles, I’ve been on the ark since 2017. I don’t just see Cardano as an investment, I genuinely believe in what it represents, the vision, the research-first approach, and what it could mean for society long term.

With that said, please take this as constructive feedback, not criticism.

I understand where you're coming from, and if I had voting power, I’d likely support funding the proposal. Research matters. Cardano’s academic layer is one of its strongest differentiators.

But if we take an unbiased view, many in the community are looking at previous treasury spending and asking a difficult question: where has the commercial return or visible adoption been?

The challenge is not that people think research is unimportant. It’s that many feel they’ve been asked to keep funding long-term R&D while still waiting to see meaningful ecosystem growth, real adoption, and value capture.

Whether fair or not, many holders entered with the expectation that each cycle would bring progress, financially and fundamentally. For some, Cardano was not just a mission, but also a path toward financial freedom, and many feel that expectation has not materialised.

Research and adoption cannot be viewed separately. Research builds the foundation, but adoption brings treasury inflows, sustainability, and long-term legitimacy.

I still believe in the vision. I just think many in the community want clearer evidence that research funding is translating into tangible outcomes. And not a donation to the rest of the industry, and again, I'm all in for open source but it may well seem that everyone but Cardano benefits "commercially" from all the research that was funded by Us.

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Cardano can absolutely support privacy-preserving features like ZK proofs and selective disclosure, so in that sense privacy can be built natively on Cardano. But that’s still different from Midnight, which is purpose-built for confidential logic and selective disclosure at the protocol/app layer rather than just proving specific things on a public chain.

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@JaromirTesar Especially marketing

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@MoonCoinRising @maxalexweber @IOHK_Charles Sold ADA on a bad AI prompt, defended BSV, got served facts, and "have a nice life" is the best you've got? 😂

The thread speaks for itself mate. 🤙

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It's not a magic word but your post makes it seem like there was no consideration of the technical differences between UTXO and eUTxO.

As a disclaimer I'm more than a Cardano investor, I'm also a Blockchain fan. And what I mean by that is, I'm super unbiased. And I say that because I also invest in the likes of Solana, XRP, ICP, Flux .... Because I truly believe that Blockchain technology is not about 1 chain to rule them all. The truly innovative projects will have their niche.

Nevertheless, BSV, to me is a novelty. Unpopular opinion, but it's my opinion.

BSV. Interesting choice. Let's be honest about what BSV actually is.

BSV is a hard fork of a hard fork. It split from Bitcoin Cash, which itself split from Bitcoin. Its founder, Craig Wright, was ruled by the UK High Court in 2024 to have provided "overwhelming" fraudulent evidence in his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto. The man behind the project is a court-confirmed fraud.

Now to the claims:

"1M TPS" : this was achieved on a single AWS node, a centralised cloud server. That is not a blockchain. That is a database running on Amazon. Real decentralised throughput is a fraction of that.

"Instant Settlement" : BSV's network has a handful of mining nodes, meaning it is functionally centralised. Craig Wright himself has stated BSV should migrate to large data centres run by a "small number of commercial entities." His words, not mine.

"Original Bitcoin Protocol" : BSV was delisted by Binance, Kraken, and others in 2019 precisely because of the controversy and lack of legitimacy around its leadership.

"Smart Contracts" : BSV's smart contract capability is extremely limited compared to a purpose-built programmable blockchain. Cardano's Plutus smart contracts run on the formally verified, peer-reviewed eUTXO model with full programmability.

Cardano has over 1,300 active projects, a fully decentralised governance system now live on-chain, and a scaling roadmap (Hydra, Peras, Leios, Mithril) built by published academics, not a single man claiming to be Satoshi in a courtroom.

Compare the fundamentals, not the AWS press releases.

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Respectfully, the LLM AI model you referenced got this wrong at the foundation level.

Cardano doesn't run basic UTXO. It runs eUTXO. Extended UTXO which is an entirely different architecture. That in itself is already a mic drop. 😂

It processes transactions in parallel, independently of each other, with no global state bottlenecks. That means no MEV, no failed transactions that still drain your wallet, and fees you can calculate before you even hit send.

That's not a UTXO limitation, that's a feature Bitcoin and Ethereum can't offer.

As for scaling, it's not theoretical, it's actively shipping:

Hydra is live: an L2 state channel solution already stress-tested in production

Peras is in progress: bringing fast finality to L1, cutting settlement down to minutes

Leios: is hitting testnet next month, a ground-up redesign of the consensus layer for massive L1 throughput.

Van Rossem hard fork: drops in June, cheaper smart contracts, better performance.

This is a full-stack scaling roadmap built from first principles. You can't bolt this onto an account-based chain after the fact.

Selling because an AI couldn't tell eUTXO from UTXO is a tough lesson. Do the reading.

Yes, it's not perfect. But once you grasp that we're a marathon and not a sprint and that no L1 is ever finished, you'll realise how Cardano is in many ways, light years ahead of other chains in certain aspects.

Cardano does not have VC backed capital pouring into builders.

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@MoonCoinRising @maxalexweber @IOHK_Charles Please feed your choice off LLM the necessary documentation and you'll quickly see that the response will be different

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@JaromirTesar Massive play into expanding decentralisation.

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@MinswapIntern @IntersectMBO Are CC members getting paid?