Shield

Emerging onchain traveler | merging the digital with the real

[Jon Kravetz @CSWAP_Destroy]

Over five years, our team built a hybrid AMM/Orderbook DEX, an NFT AMM, the first Bitcoin protocol on Cardano mainnet, and a sophisticated multi-chain RWA marketplace.

We did it with a fraction of the resources available to other projects, on a chain with steadily worsening market conditions, institutional conflict, and a frustrated community.

We've gotten one catalyst grant in our 5 years here, and that's it. Other teams with one mediocre product, have gotten millions and millions of dollars (thanks @SpentronSpence for the report ).

Our products are great. Our team executes. Our community knows how we operate.

Now we take everything we learned and build wherever our work is valued. We are no longer just a Cardano project anymore. We want to compete with the best.

CSWAP is still here.

BTC Karma is still here.

And we are nowhere near finished with our work on Cardano, but this idea of a "Cardano Cabal" is not totally inaccurate...it's holding us all back.

We know where we're going. We're different. 😉

[Mat again @matdemedici]

already working on what’s next for @SpyIncGame

i think it’s going to change how people play together

[CSWAP | DEX @CswapDEX]

In a sea of greed and hype, @CswapDEX is something different on Cardano.

Ask our community how we’ve treated them. We share 100% of protocol fees with $CSWAP stakers and farmers.

Be a part of something good for once.

The community DEX. Trade and LP at https://t.co/Dm3xJmr2SI.

[CSWAP | DEX @CswapDEX]

@Dudewhyme Unfortunately, Alpha Growth seems to be compromised. They gave the DEX work and I assume liquidity incentives to @SundaeSwap before we even had a chance to bid.

We are trying to bid anyways just to show the community that we tried, but they refuse to give us the requirements.

[Dudewhyme @Dudewhyme]

A prime example of why @CswapDEX should be the DEX we are using right now.

Most of the measured pools keep a protocol cut, so extra TVL immediately dilutes the remaining organic yield that LPs actually receive on Cardano.

A venue that passes every trading fee to stakers and farmers can keep more of that yield inside the ecosystem, which in principle raises the amount of capital that can be absorbed before returns compress.

YOU are the only reason any of the wheels turn here. Its your efforts and economic activity so why not keep it here? We could grow today and exponentially with a place that respects you.

[Jon Kravetz @CSWAP_Destroy]

Shout out projects that put their token holders first.

You've taken the path less traveled, but its the only sustainable one for retail participants in web3!

[Spy Inc. @SpyIncGame]

More $INC was burned than emitted over the last 24 hours, 1.523% of the entire supply gone.

For every 1 $INC emitted, 1.13 was burnt.

This comes from players spending to progress in game, meaningful token sinks working as designed.

As season 2 progresses, we are looking to grow. If you are a creator on @RobinhoodCrypto please reach out if you would like to be apart of what we are building.

[Jon Kravetz @CSWAP_Destroy]

I keep hearing that Cardano needs to “pick winners” because we have too many DEXs.

Cool story.

Here’s the part they don’t understand:
Nobody gets to decide whether @CswapDEX survives.
As far as I know, this ecosystem is still DECENTRALIZED.

CSWAP is going NOWHERE. EVER.
Never hacked, never cracked, never kissed a rich man's nut sack.

We were not created in a VC boardroom as a market opportunity with a cute clever cartoon mascot.

We were forged from the ashes after 2,000 innocent, adorable, puppy-eyed Cardano community members were left holding the bag during one of the ugliest chapters in this ecosystem’s history.

What started with a slightly chubby bearded dude and a musty dusty keyboard....transformed in to the emerald green beacon of hope for Cardanians during their darkest hour.

We stepped in because it was the right thing to do.
We got spit on for it. We still get spit on for it.
They get the liquidity. They get the contracts. They get the posts. They get the grants. yada yada yada.

But we created @CswapDEX for something greater than ourselves.

Too many people in crypto look the other way when doing the right thing threatens their bags. Then they wonder why users leave and never come back...

What if they didn’t look away?
What if integrity actually mattered?
Where would Cardano be today?

You know what people remember. That we cared about them. That it wasn't just the blockchain that was decentralized, or the application, but it was our compassion...and it flows both ways and all ways. We care about each other in our special community.

What do you actually stand for? Do you just pretend to want to change the world? Or do you put your money where your mouth is....

CSWAP has always been about people. Community. Integrity. Winning together. Giving. Growing. Evolving. Believing.

While other teams received 10...20....100 times the money....millions and millions or dollars for just one mediocre copy cat application... We've created four special applications, all unique and innovative in their own way.

It is about building something that survives when powerful people and big bags would rather move on and forget. Our software isn't just zeros and ones....our software is art. Our software is meaningful. Theirs is cold and dead and lifeless.

So keep throwing money at the ice cream truck. They may get all the liquidity, they may get more likes....but we have more love....and we have meaning...and we have righteousness on our side.

Give it every scoop of liquidity, every grant, every headline, and every advantage money can buy.

You can buy liquidity. Liquidity comes and goes. But loyalty lasts forever.

We will still be here. 1000 years from now, we will be here. Growth on Cardano will be slow....but one by one, people will see the light. They want goodness in their web3 life. It's not just about numbers anymore, but the thing is when it stops being about just the numbers, thats when the numbers start numbering.

If they keep it up....Maybe we'll just make trading free. Who knows what we will do....

CSWAP will never die. We are too scrappy. We were born for this. We are calloused and we are inevitable.

One thousand years from now, CSWAP will have a medal in the Cardano Digital Hall of Fame for standing with the people everyone else abandoned. Money will be a relic. Integrity will be what's valued....and we are already rich in that regard.

We are simply ahead of our time....in all aspects. Next time we have revolutionary ideas, and you never know when that might be, we will be in a spot to where they can flourish.

And somewhere in the future, in the basement, there will be a dusty old box containing some terrible 1980s art, a dusty dog poster, and the fossilized remains of a melted ice-cream empire.

I know what my Cardano legacy will be.

What will yours be?

They can pick who receives the money.

But they do not get to pick who survives.

Ice cream melts.

CSWAP is forever.

[Shield @EmergingShield]

@ShiggyShaman Amazing gamification and seriously fun to play. Keeps you coming back for more, every 12 hours.

Also love how all your major decisions / strategy is executed on-chain. This is done in a very user friendly way, and it feels meaningful rather than cumbersome.

Check it out!

[Shaman @ShiggyShaman]

Introduction to Spy Inc https://t.co/B2YhnJrGsB

[Spy Inc. @SpyIncGame]

PHASE 2 MINTED OUT!

Spy Inc. moved automatically into Phase 3 where the base mint price increased by 2,000 robinhood:0x32e5c63483dc00e00bf99016fa91775e00464de1. Forever.

Phase 4 next (🕵️ ,🕵️ )

[Shield @EmergingShield]

@SpyIncGame @matdemedici @FOCGERS Spy Game is the real deal, and team is brilliant and proven builders. Community is top notch too! Can't wait to see how the game ecosystem evolves over time. Definitely give it a shot, you won't regret, it is a lot of fun!

[Spy Inc. @SpyIncGame]

One of our founders, @matdemedici joined today’s @FOCGERS stream to introduce the Spy Inc. world and explain how the game works.

Listen below 👇

[CSWAP | DEX @CswapDEX]

Our team is expanding. Get ready! 🚀

[Jon Kravetz @CSWAP_Destroy]

I will publically share all of our proposals for alpha growth after we submit them.

This year, we have spent hundreds of hours on a number of high leverage proposals for processes that got unilaterally cancelled. Catalyst F15, DeFi Liquidity Initiative...etc. Spending significant time and energy on proposals that had no chance of being funded...in these market conditions was a significant loss for us.

Throughout our time building on Cardano, we have used our limited resources to help evolve the ecosystem. When processes waste our time, it takes our resources away from direct investment in the ecosystem. This is something that is not considered for most when looking at the treasury or founding entity balance sheets.

Wasting builders' limited time and resources takes away from Cardano and ADA holders.

We had also put together a very detailed and well thought out treasury proposal, that had no realistic chance of being funded (we did not realize at the time that dReps would black ball any independent commercial team from receiving funding).

I am not a politician. I am a Cardano populist. I only care about what is best for the community. This has been true the entire time I've been building here.

I might not be perfect, but at least I'm authentic and I actually look out for the community's best interests.

At the end of the day all we have is our integrity. By the time we work our way through the opportunities available to us in this environment. Draper/AG...we will know we tried our best for the community, no matter what the result!

Thanks for everyone's support over the years.

Let me make this very clear: Nobody gets to decide whether we win or lose except for our team and our community.

No matter what happens with Cardano...our team and community will survive and we are going to win! 💙

[Spy Inc. @SpyIncGame]

Spy Inc is simple to start:

Get a Spy.
Pick a mission.
Check back in 12 hours.

Your agent is rewarded with robinhood:0x32e5c63483dc00e00bf99016fa91775e00464de1 while you’re away.

[Shield @EmergingShield]

@ebecca_rwa @solana Looks like a smart move, this product has huge potential, but needs a big ecosystem.

[Ebecca @ebecca_rwa]

something real is coming to @solana

[Shield @EmergingShield]

@SpyIncGame @RobinhoodCrypto One of my favorite parts of Spy Inc. is the RPG-style character progression.

Build your spies, earn XP, rank them up, and improve their abilities over time. Makes you actually get attached to your agents.

[Shield @EmergingShield]

@SpyIncGame @opensea I'm really having a blast with the Spy Inc. game!

Check in every 12 hours, plan your next move. It's like correspondence chess, but espionage.

Definitely give it a try, you won't regret.