Daniel Xu Lace

Software Engineer at Lace | Building secure self-custody experiences on Cardano | Wallet infrastructure, UX, and blockchain technology.

[Daniel Xu Lace @DannyXU_]

Lace 2.0 v2.06 improves dApp interactions, fixes wallet migration issues, adds DRep CIP-129 display, Ledger signing, and network selection preservation fix update

[Daniel Xu Lace @DannyXU_]

@ADA_ONEVETCOTI The best opportunities usually look the worst at the bottom. That’s why conviction matters. 🚀

[Daniel Xu Lace @DannyXU_]

@niroshan682 🚀

[Alex Lagi @AlesL55581]

I am all in Cardano
$ADA

[Matjaz Mihelj @Cashmat02]

$ADA #Cardano

The most underrated story in crypto today isn’t hype, it’s a Plutus cost model upgrade.

Cardano has ratified the Plutus cost model update, with enactment scheduled for June 18. That means more precise script execution, better efficiency for Plutus smart contracts, and a stronger foundation for dApp growth on Cardano alongside Hydra, Mithril, and the Voltaire era.

Research driven. Community governed.
Built for the long term.

This is what it looks like when a blockchain improves without drama and with real technical progress. Who is still sleeping on $ADA? 🚀
We are #CardanoCommunity

[Daniel Xu Lace @DannyXU_]

@MauroAndreoliA @lace_io @MidnightNtwrk @CamaraFintechAr @midnightfdn @IOGroup @BCBAar @gcba @LucasMacchia2 @blockenfy @jackoconnorx Stacked calendar! 🚀 Love seeing Buenos Aires cement itself as such a massive hub for Web3 and RWA innovation. BA to the world indeed!

[Daniel Xu Lace @DannyXU_]

@Sssebi Nothing like a little drama to wake up the giants. $ADA to $10 is exactly the energy we need right now 🚀

[Don Digital Finance @niroshan682]

Make $ADA great again 💙🚀

#ADA #Cardano

[₳lex Maaza @planetmaaz]

Stoked to see all the positive reactions on the TL about this announcement.

Thought I'd give you the inside scoop from the guy whose job it is to bring Cardano to this table.

I wear suits when I need to, but the pfp stays on forever. Get your cuppa, this is an actual read! ☕️

TLDR: 5 years of Cardano x UNDP work just crystallised into a Blockchain Advisory Group launch with @CardanoFoundation as a founding member, a flagship 42-use-case report, and 21 Cardano-linked solutions running live with UNDP on the ground. The thread breaks each one down on scale, on-chain activity, and business model. The bigger question - how pilots become procurement, how this gets funded and governed at scale - that answer is coming.

I've been working with UN agencies since 2021. The hype cycle was running hot. Back then, every institution wanted to "do blockchain."

Most hit the same walls: marketing stunts, shelved pilots, glorified databases, or emotional/philosophical dismissal.

The ones that stayed in the game - learned, iterated, built - are now sitting on something genuinely valuable. @UNDP did that.

Specifically @UNDP_AltFinLab is the clearest example. A rare pocket of institutional freedom to explore alternative finance seriously.

Their theory of change runs three layers deep:
Awareness → Capacity → Acceleration

Research and publications. Events. The Blockchain Academy.

And at the centre: the SDG Blockchain Accelerator.

The Cardano treasury seed funded that Accelerator in @Catalyst_onX F13 (regardless of the CF vote btw).

Not charity. A calculated bet that building both sides of a market - builders who understand procurement-grade requirements, institutions that understand blockchain - was worth funding directly from the community's own resources.

That bet is compounding. Pilot & commercial opportunities are coming to the cohort.

The Accelerator is now multichain. Cohort 3 is coming. Graduates are building real things with real traction post-acceleration.

It also produced "New Tech, New Partners" - UNDP's flagship blockchain report. 42 real-world use cases. Prefaced by the boss of UNDP himself. When UNDP publishes something like that, every public-sector organisation & government on earth takes notice.

Yes Cardano community. You made this happen. You seeded the movement bc you're a blockchain with a purpose.

The BAG launch last week formalises what was already forming: a structured advisory relationship between UNDP and the blockchain industry.

@CardanoFoundation at the table from day one - not by asking to be there, but because the track record got us invited there.

The questions that matter now:

→ How do successful pilots move into institutional procurement?
→ How do UN agencies building blockchain programmes stop duplicating and start collaborating? → How is this funded, governed, implemented at scale?

Pilotitis isn't solved by better pilots. It's solved by building both sides of the market - with capital and political will behind the gap between pilot and procurement.

We're working on that answer. More soon.

Now a nice thread: every Cardano-linked pilot solution featured in "New Tech, New Partners" - starting with the two that have broken out of the pack 👇

we be global & onchain 🌍🌎🌏

PS: some of these pilots were built by web2 & web3 onboarded onto cardano!

[Chainspect @chainspect_app]

🛠️ Where Are Developers Building?

Talk is cheap. Shipping code isn't

We ranked blockchains by total commits to see where development is actually happening 👇

📊 https://t.co/6JK35EykLK

[Daniel Xu Lace @DannyXU_]

@minute_markets Based on market cap alone, ADA has the lower hurdle to $10. But adoption, utility, and liquidity will decide who gets there first.

[CoinGape @CoinGapeMedia]

📈 @Cardano Eyes a Breakout

🚀 cardano:native is holding above key support at $0.16 as traders look ahead to the upcoming #Leios upgrade, which could significantly boost #Cardano’s scalability and network #capacity.

👀 With #buyers returning and momentum improving, a move above $0.18 could put the $0.20 #level back in focus. The Leios #testnet launch remains the key catalyst to watch this #month.

🔗 Know more in comments

[Don Digital Finance @niroshan682]

Does $ADA need to break $1 before crypto X starts paying attention again?

I think the conversation changes long before that. Once $ADA gets momentum above $0.50, many of the silent accounts will be back. 👀

[Daniel Xu Lace @DannyXU_]

@JureKaramarko Every ecosystem has passionate supporters, but I’ve noticed Cardano holders tend to focus more on building and educating than recruiting. People are free to choose what they believe in conviction lasts longer than hype.

[$cash @CashAnvil]

My post somehow reached way outside of Cardano.

There are a lot of hopeful people out there shilling other chains in my replies. Seems to be opportunity out there.

The support has been epic. Thank you all. I am feeling a bit reinvigorated. Means more than you know.

Taking the weekend to weigh options!

[$cash @CashAnvil]

I put my entire life into Cardano. My time, my expertise, my savings. I’ve literally gone all in, and for over 5 years now.

No salary for 3 years, along with my co founder, and every payroll was paid on time. This isn’t meant as a guilt trip just context towards my reality.

I forced my cofounders to envelope the ‘entrepreneur mindset’ and make sacrifices to make our vision of Anvil work.

I thought we were in good company in Cardano. A bunch of scrappy, smart people who are building the future financial rails of the world. Unfortunately, not everyone was living like starving entrepreneurs and looted our community/treasury while keeping cushy salaries. Now the price is in the teens…and we can’t even get contracts on Cardano to sustain our business, with no indication that change is coming, all community business proposals are not passing atm.

I gave up my 30s for this. I had a great career trajectory making solid money. I don’t regret the decision I just wish it went different. Believe it or not, we didn’t make many stupid decisions, we were responsible with salaries, and ran very lean operations. Did we fail? Or did Cardano fail to flourish and create real opportunity?

I bought Ada, I believed in the token. I dropped my 401k on it. Held it religiously for 5 years, all to sell at .16 so I don’t lose my house? It’s insane lol was I supposed to sell on everyone’s heads? I thought being a believer was the whole point now I just feel like a sheep. I don’t even have the 100k Ada required anymore to go straight to the treasury. The only thing I can think of that hurt worse were my kidney stones. This is the most defeated I have felt in a long time.

And now I’m watching 8 months of hard work and relationship building get thrown away. Can’t get a hold of half the DReps otherwise you come off as annoying. Didn’t do a Japan tour? Good luck!

I had to waste 6 days explaining to one of our top DReps why the product needs Cardano. He basically said we didn’t need to use blockchain or cardano. Instead of explaining the value we create I gotta convince our top DReps why a project chose to build on Cardano? 🤯

Im not perfect but I damn sure tried to be! Answered everyone promptly, reached out to DReps, and did our best to listen/apply feedback. I show up everyday.

Can someone explain to me why I should keep trying to build here? I’ve legit lost everything but my wife who isn’t getting any happier with me.

Today is the first day I work towards getting my life back. IDK exactly what that means but I’m done feeling like this for nothing.

[Daniel Xu Lace @DannyXU_]

@JureKaramarko @IOHK_Charles @hoskytoken @phillip_pon This could be a huge step for the Cardano community. A dedicated Discord bringing together builders, creators, and ecosystem teams like Hosky could make collaboration and onboarding much easier. Looking forward to seeing how it evolves. 🚀 #Cardano $ADA

[Chris O 🌎 Cardano DRep @TheOCcryptobro]

#Cardano fam, better late than never, I guess….. Would have been nice a few years back bros…… $ADA

[The Defiant @DefiantNews]

EXCLUSIVE: @CARDANO FOUNDATION IS STEPPING INTO A MORE ACTIVE ROLE TO DRIVE ADOPTION

Cardano Foundation shifts strategy: seeding DeFi liquidity, backing an $80M venture fund, and signing enterprise deals to drive adoption and shore up onchain metrics.

"In the last six months we started to do some active market making and helped on some AMMs,” @F_Gregaard said in an interview.

Read more:
https://t.co/AEt8TiCKSZ

[Carlos Domingo @carlosdomingo]

Thanks to our partners @solana and @ethena for the support in expanding our tokenized AAA CLO Fund in partnership with @BNYglobal to Solana!!

[Don Digital Finance @niroshan682]

Who else managed to buy $ADA below $0.160? 👀

Now that ADA is back above $0.17, those entries are already looking pretty good.

Let’s see where we are in a few months. 💙🚀