@IOHK_Charles@CashAnvil Dude says like 50 times how much he respects you and values you and appreciates you, gives some valuable honest feedback, and that is your take away?
Surprised to see this one. Many others closing down makes sense but always had the impression that TapTools was one of the few things in our ecosystem that was actively used and relied on by just about everyone. Sorry to see them go.
This is a really interesting idea. What do you guys think? Cardano Summit Globally on https://t.co/N2gfZpbmVR? We could treat it like the world's fair and build lots of special zones for each Dapp and project
I published a public spreadsheet to help #dReps and the #Cardano community check proposer track records in the 2026 Budget / Treasury Withdrawal cycle.
Why does this matter⁉️
Because 50 different proposers submitted proposals through the Intersect Budget Framework.
The Budget Committee @IntersectCBC created a dashboard to show the track record of the proposers that uses APIs and automation to identify previous funding history. 💰
Roughly half of the proposers were already identified by the dashboard as having some prior funding record.
My additional contribution to the dashboard focused on the other side of the problem:
🔷 Cases where prior funding was not identified automatically.
I manually checked 26 individual proposers, mostly proposals that appeared to have no previous funding history in the dashboard.
The result:
👉🏻 10 proposers still appear to have no prior Cardano Treasury-related funding.
🔎 But in the other 16 cases, manual research identified historical links to 172 funded initiatives across different Cardano funding vehicles, including:
🔹 Project Catalyst
🔹 Intersect grants
🔹 Treasury Withdrawals
🔹 Cardano Builder DAO
🎯 That is exactly why manual reconciliation matters.
The reason the dashboard does not yet identify all of these cases is that historical links may exist under different names, companies, aliases, teams, or funding systems, meaning dReps may miss important context if those connections are not reconciled manually.
📌 This does not mean those proposers did anything wrong.
📌 It does not mean the proposals should be rejected.
📌 It does not mean every associated initiative was directly led by the same person.
👍🏻 It means proposer history in Cardano is fragmented and needs careful reconciliation.
This research is not:
- a ranking
- an endorsement
- a vote recommendation
- financial due diligence
- a subjective proposal review
It is simply a supplementary governance data layer.
The goal is to make proposer history easier to verify and help dReps make better-informed decisions during a constrained Treasury allocation cycle.
The first-stage dataset is now public:
🔹 Dashboard (by @radioastro):
https://t.co/pcwIT9qtIh
🔹 Spreadsheet (this is the main reference for consultation):
https://t.co/Oa0pqnP551
🔹Methodology:
https://t.co/0hFry2hbxS
🔹 Github for nerds:
https://t.co/FyKKUFLjjP
The GitHub repo and spreadsheet serve as public references for the manual reconciliation work.
@Epka_Epka@BrothershipPool@USDMOfficial Beat me to it. We want a stable coin we can buy or sell on Coinbase et al. USDM will never be that. How is it this hard to understand for people?
@staunch2068@CryptoWendyO Im not trying to solve whatever cryptic puzzles you are leaving here. I said I didn't know what your post meant, you respond with an eye rolling giff. So yes, please go away.
Hard Truth: Giving 1M+ ADA to the same people who have already been making Cardano content for years will do nothing. No new people are seeing these or care. Most old people hardly care.
Paying people like @CryptoWendyO who have reach outside our ecosystem possibly could.
🚨Cardano - This is an absolutely insane and completely devoid of reality take. @JaromirTesar (Cardano Yoda) who holds nearly 100M in voting power.
He believes you can hire 100 content creators to work and produce 12 videos a month for $3400 A YEAR for what our proposal asks for.
I'd be very concern if this was my Drep and this was the judgement he was using.
@IOHK_Charles@TheRealWeb3Kat@angrycryptoshow Anything else you want on Cardano you seem to be able to push through. Seems odd to blame the whale that it didn’t happen.
And hindsight is 20/20. Easy to say now how brilliant it would have been but imagine if the price of ADA kept going up. As difficult as that may be.