1/ A great day at the NYSE yesterday.
I had the opportunity to join @RemyBlaireNews on @FINTECHTVglobal and @JennSanasie and @dave_lavalle on @CoinDesk to discuss @MidnightNtwrk's partnership with Monument Bank, the growing momentum behind tokenization, and why privacy is becoming essential for institutional blockchain adoption.
UPDATE
$80M FUND LAUNCHED TO BOOST CARDANO BUILDERS😱😱😱
@DraperDragon Orion Fund has officially launched an $80 million Cardano innovation fund aimed at accelerating early-stage ecosystem growth.
The initiative will focus on backing Cardano $ADA founders, supporting new projects, and boosting overall TVL expansion across the network.
Applications for the first cohort are now open.
Strike vault continues to print 20% APY on stables
Users can deposit:
- USDC on Ethereum
- Aave LP tokens (soon)
- USDM on Cardano
- SundaeSwap stable LP tokens
$1M deposited is projected to earn $200k yearly 🏎️
One of the best returns in the industry
Honestly, do I have any issues with Cardano's founders? Actually, I do. I've rarely expressed any negative sentiments about Cardano and have consistently offered my full support. Yet, I've still been blocked by them, and not just one influential person. But why do I still wholeheartedly support Cardano? Because it truly achieves a high degree of decentralization. My support for Cardano isn't based on its founders, but on the intrinsic value of Cardano itself. I'm speaking up for Charles simply because I feel those people don't need to resort to personal attacks. Here, I want to make my stance clear: no one can shake my support for Cardano.
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
Dropping by to let everyone know that I spoke with @phillip_pon and we are working out a plan to create a discord for a great migration of the Cardano community from X. We can have happy, positive, well-moderated channels and leave behind the drama, lies, endless rage, and embittered people for a place where real conversations and real progress can be made.
I will continue broadcasting live streams to X as I have a million followers here, but will only take AMA questions from the new Cardano and current Midnight discords. I've seen some commentary that broadcasting means I'm back on X. For those people, I can't solve stupid.
Enjoy your scandals of the week and FUD. Real work is done elsewhere. Looking forward to Cardano ascending to better days, governance, and culture.
If you think paying for marketing and content creators doesn’t do anything, look at what just happened to Cardano.
You’ve just witnessed the power of social engineering and narratives led by influencers & media who completely changed the public opinion of Cardano, sending the price from 24 cents to 15 cents in just a week.
Crypto is not a competition of best tech it’s a competition of public perception.
The market has repeatedly shown that being technologically superior is not enough.
Just look at Solana. Despite outages and technical issues, it climbed to the top because it captured marketing. Ethereum is still number two despite being expensive to use.
Yet Cardano still likes to believe that investors solely buy based on tech, decentralization, and infra.
”build it and they’ll come“
- they won‘t.
The majority of people buy based on public attention (marketing) and perceived upside.
Infrastructure improvements may excite developers, but developers are not the market.
I strongly believe we’re in a good place right now to really push what we have already built, but it looks like this will be yet another year we let projects and public attention die for the sake of funding even more infrastructure that won’t change a thing for the majority of the end user.
Everyone saying Cardano is dead… but Charles Hoskinson just returned and the ecosystem is shipping hard.
Fireblocks Integration with Cardano
Cardano Featured on Official Olympic Games Website
LayerZero on the Way
CNTs Continue to Climb
Midnight’s Midgard Executes First Real Smart Contract
Midnight Partners with COTI
@lava Announces Liquid Staking for ADA & CNTs
Van Rossem Hard Fork Activated on Testnet
@strikeperps Launches Pre-IPO Perpetual Futures
EMURGO Launches SecondFi
Is Cardano finally waking up?
#Cardano #ADA
Joined 20 or so project Discords people have sent me
I have about 40 calls with entrepreneurs who used my calendar link
Thanks to all who are passionate about working together!
Cardano had 37mil ADA on-chain volume yesterday.
Doesn't look like a dead chain to me, but one that is non stop building and full of quality projects that are set to explode.
What matters long term is not short-term market sentiment, but whether an ecosystem continues to build meaningful infrastructure and attract real adoption.
Cardano today has:
Decentralized Governance operating at scale through CIP-1694 and on-chain voting
One of the strongest open-source communities in the industry, with contributors building across research, protocol development, tooling, and applications worldwide
Institutional Transparency anchored directly on-chain, where governance actions, treasury activity, and ecosystem operations are publicly verifiable
Growing DeFi initiatives including
Bifrost by Fluid Tokens
Pogun by IOG
Sundial Protocol
Charms
BTC Karma
Expanding RWA and digital identity infrastructure through projects like Veridian and tokenization initiatives across multiple regions
Global public/private sector collaborations spanning education, telecommunications, digital identity, and blockchain infrastructure
Examples of transparent on-chain activity already visible today include:
DRep registrations and governance actions
Treasury withdrawals and constitutional committee activity
Ecosystem and partner network activity
Native asset issuance and RWA directly on London Stock Exchange
20.000 farmers in India combining satellite data, identity, education and industry
Everything verifiable. Everything auditable. Built in public.
The work continues.
Been in $ADA since 2018. Never sold a single Ada.
Sold everything else. Just staking and holding.
@IOHK_Charles taking a break doesn't scare me. The man built something real and he deserves the space.
The noise on X is loud right now. But I've seen loud before.
See you on the other side. 🤝
#Cardano #ADA
I'm personally tired of the bots and trolls crashing out on Charles. The market has been getting manipulated down for the past year. "They" want a reset before Clarity. It's the banks, institutions and politicians that have been orchestrating all of this. Retail had fun with the gimmicks, scams, imaginative use cases, internal manipulations etc, but that is coming to a close as the big boys come to play with Trillions of $$.
The only reason Charles gets the brunt of the anger, fear and frustrations of the ecosystem is because he opted to put himself out there in a transparent way with every thought, effort, goal and compromise he considers. What other ecosystem has its founder putting themselves out there the way Charles does?
Cardano isn't down because Cardano sucks, has failed, Charles is mean, or any of this nonsense. It's a risk on asset in a sea of assets being shaken out of retail hands before the real strengths of these chains are put to legitimate use by the very institutions funding the markets we trade in. The club has been built, the DJ is unloading his crate, the music is soon to begin and while the guys are suits are being let in through the back door, we aren't invited unless we are smart enough to have the foresight and understanding that to play with the big boys, you have to think like them, understand their plays and stop playing victim to the game.
When Clarity passes as the necessity that it is for the banks to survive the Quantum threat and the chains more advanced in their quantum proofing state take the lead, there is NO OTHER FUCKING CHAIN that has been designed, developed and continues to expand its reach and capabilities than Cardano and thats why IM NOT FUCKING SELLING! I'll work every job I can, take on as many AI clients as possible, grind my daily work, my content, whatever I have to to survive where we are. We've ALL been played. But I'm not a victim, I'm a fucking pioneer. I was of the first, I've been here ever since and I'm not going anywhere. The world HAS to change or everything collapses and it has to change to quantum proof blockchain rails or no bank account is safe. AI with Quantum computing access? HAH!
It really is time for everyone to get a grip. Whats done is done. It doesnt change where we have been, what we have accomplished or where we are going.
Tired of the bots and trolls? Block them all. The power they have is the power we give them through out engagement. Its time to clean house. If you shit on Cardano, Charles are just a senseless toxic shit stirrer, I'm blocking you. Period. I'm done with the drama and the negativity. Now is the time for UNITY under pressure with the focus being how we rise with the coming tide and it is coming, you can take that FROM the bank and put it onto any one of these legit blockchains. Most of these chains in the Top 50 will be used for different things.
When the market turns, its going to be hard and fast and likely at a moment you least expect it because they will wait until everyone last one of us has been shaken out before the flood waves drives uptrends that leave everyone wondering WTF is happening and your exit prices are blown away forcing you to buy back in higher than you sold and your disbelief and confusion keeps you from pushing the buy button. This is all by design and this time, this bear cycle, is very much diffferent...dont get caught off guard because you're too busy bickering about nonsense with others in your community. Its time to focus.
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