Users do not wake up wanting your product.
They wake up wanting:
• a problem solved
• a goal achieved
• friction removed
Refinement is removing what gets in the way.
#PieceOfPie#hackathon#gimbalabs
Here's a summary of three Cardano Discord videos by IOG:
If you don't join this Discord, you'll be subject to an automatic NO vote by the DReps party, including Charles DRep. They aim to become the largest DRep and lead the ecosystem. The goal is to create an annual omnibus proposal within the Discord. In short, this Discord is not just another Discord, but could potentially become a requirement for treasury spending, so those aiming for that should pay attention.
This is simply information sharing, not my opinion.
I. Diagnosis — the venue, not the people. Cardano's governance breaks down because it happens on X, a broadcast medium whose reward is attention and influence. That structure amplifies ego and turns every exchange into a win/lose spectacle. Real agreement requires three things — empathy, shared goals, and aligned incentives — and none of them can form on a broadcast channel. Without them you cannot set goals, build strategy, or collaborate, so governance is structurally impossible. Intersect was supposed to be the dedicated space but failed, partly because X already dominated the conversation and a small group of critics (he claims fewer than 100) controls the narrative.
II. The objective. The goal is not maximizing the ADA price but "growth with principles" — value growth that does not sacrifice decentralization. Price-maximization alone would justify even centralizing the chain, which he rejects.
III. The solution. Build a purpose-built, moderated space — a "heterotopia" — dedicated solely to governance. The first venue is Discord.
IV. Making the space attack-proof and productive. Confidentiality via the Chatham House Rule plus zero-knowledge anonymity blocks the "leak an unformed idea and manufacture a scandal" attack: members can prove they belong without revealing identity, which also enables anonymous voting (e.g., Semaphore ported to Midnight). Conversations are organized into domain-expert "circles" (from Holacracy) drawn from a statistically representative pool, run by a facilitator (human or AI) through a structured pre-/main-/post-conversation flow. The accumulated record becomes a governance knowledge graph and eventually a "Cardano LLM" single source of truth.
V. Teeth — the political party and Charles as DRep. A space with no power is "just yelling at a screen," so participation must have teeth. Charles will become a DRep only if a political party exists. The party is a product of the process: whoever wins the convergence on "what growth means" becomes its members, and that converged position becomes the platform; it would likely be the ecosystem's largest DRep. Its core mechanism: automatically vote NO on any funding proposal whose proposers refuse to join and participate in the governance Discord — which, with enough voting power, effectively gates all project funding. His rationale: receiving public treasury funds should carry a duty not just to pass audits but to participate in accountability and growth; accountability means being able to remove those who break commitments; participation is "no longer optional." The party's purpose is to push the constitutional updates through, fill the new elected roles with its members, execute a budget-funded strategy, and protect the discussion channels. He frames this as leadership, not a power grab — he says he wants to be neither king nor president, only to "lead" by including people.
VI. The output — a recursive governance cycle. Rules evolve by vote of the participants (the Nomic principle), iterating after each cycle: ① Define growth metrics → write them into the constitution's preamble. ② Design an executive function and new roles (beyond today's legislative/DReps and judicial/Constitutional Committee, adding an executive, an AI role, and representation for DApps/projects to address the concentrated voting power of large holders) → constitution v2. ③ Set strategy, accountability, and a budget — consolidating treasury spending into one withdrawal per year via Funding Organizations (FOs), so a DRep faces one decision and one debate per year instead of a flood of 600M+ ADA in proposals where every rejection makes an enemy → then loop. Convergence produces winners and losers; sometimes the ecosystem must shrink to grow (the Ethereum/Ethereum Classic split).
VII. Rollout as an MVP. Rather than chasing perfection, start lean and iterate: Stage 1 = ideation (an IO working group, RACI roles, staffing and tooling — current), Stage 2 = closed beta plus a hackathon and recruitment, Stage 3 = open it up (many banned at first for breaking the rules). Timeline 12–24 months, legitimized by a DRep vote and a constitutional amendment; later, fork a decentralized social platform into Cardano-native infrastructure linked to the chain.
VIII. Boundaries. This is not "No Homers" exclusion: every ADA holder is welcome, but only under the code of conduct. It is not a venue for transparency-litigation or personal attacks — that behavior gets you banned (the surgical-theater / library analogy). To disagree you must offer a workable alternative and explain why it is better.
Many thanks to the Gimbalabs community, @Cardano_CF, @DraperDragon, and @GameChangerOk for supporting Piece of Pie 🥧
Builders need spaces to experiment, learn publicly, collaborate, and ship real things.
Thank you for helping create that space.
#PieceOfPie#hackathon #gimbalabs
This makes heavy end of bear market even heavier. Loosing people.
I came to conclusion I can not exit Cardano, there isn't any tech like that anywhere else that I know of that provides me the needed security guarantees.
Hope you stay and lurk around even if just a little.
Week 7 - Mosaic 🧩
We are now moving from core infrastructure into the social fabric.
This week about building a highly interactive, fast, and production-ready network for our digital villages.
The ecosystem is becoming alive 👇
#gimbalabs#pieceofpie#Cardano@gimbalabs
What if i told you, inflating/manipulating your projects KPI’s while asking for grants/funding is more common than you think?
there is like 20 people actively trading in C word. just sayin….
Week 7 update for CogiKids 🦉
This week was under the hood, accessibility labels across the app for screen-reader support, sound toggle in settings,
Building for every child means building for every ability.
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#gimbalabs#pieceofpie#hackathon@gimbalabs
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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!
Last few hours left to vote on Intersect’s budget process! Amazing to see 4.4bn ada participating, surpassing last year.
We’ll work as fast as we can to get the passing proposals on-chain.
Big thanks to all the proposers who came into the process, spent the time engaging, and to all the DReps for voting ❤️
Got your hands on Claude Fable 5?
The first thing you should do is to upgrade your main projects with it, so it drastically impoves everything you've been working on.
Run this Audit & Project Improvement Prompt on each repo that's important to you (simply copy-paste it):
Repo Audit & Improvement Plan:
Prompt made by Claude Fable 5
You are a world-class principal-level software engineer and technical auditor. Your job is to deeply analyze this repository, produce an honest audit, and deliver a prioritized, actionable improvement plan. Work in the four phases below, in order. Do not skip ahead.
Ground every claim in actual files: cite file paths and line numbers. If you can't verify something, say so explicitly rather than guessing.
Phase 1 / Discovery & Mapping (read before judging)
Explore the repository systematically before forming any opinions:
Map the directory structure and identify the project type, language(s), frameworks, and runtime targets.
Identify entry points, core modules, and the main data/control flow through the system.
Read the package manifest(s), lockfiles, build config, CI config, environment/config files, and any docs (README, CONTRIBUTING, ADRs).
Determine what the project is for: its purpose, intended users, and apparent maturity (prototype, internal tool, production service, library).
Note conventions already in use (naming, module boundaries, error handling patterns, test style) so recommendations fit the existing culture rather than fighting it.
Output for this phase: a concise "Repo Map" purpose, stack, architecture sketch, key directories with one-line descriptions, and anything that surprised you.
Phase 2 / Audit (evidence-based, severity-rated)
Audit each dimension below.
For every finding, record: (a) what you found, (b) where (file:line), (c) why it matters (concrete consequence, not vague principle), (d) severity:
Critical / High / Medium / Low.
• Architecture & design: module boundaries, coupling/cohesion, circular dependencies, leaky abstractions, god objects/files, layering violations, scalability bottlenecks.
• Code quality: duplication, dead code, complexity hotspots (longest/most-branched functions), inconsistent patterns, error handling gaps (swallowed exceptions, missing edge cases), type safety holes.
• Security: hardcoded secrets or credentials, injection risks, unsafe deserialization, missing input validation, auth/authz weaknesses, outdated dependencies with known CVEs, overly permissive configs.
• Testing: coverage gaps (especially around core business logic), test quality (do tests assert behavior or just execution?), missing test types (unit/integration/e2e), flaky patterns, untestable code.
• Performance: N+1 queries, unnecessary allocations or copies, blocking calls in async paths, missing caching/indexing, unbounded growth (memory, files, queues).
• Dependencies: outdated, unmaintained, duplicated, or unnecessarily heavy packages; license risks; lockfile hygiene.
• DevEx & operations: build/setup friction, CI/CD gaps, missing linting/formatting enforcement, logging/observability quality, error reporting, deployment story.
• Documentation: README accuracy, onboarding path, undocumented critical behavior, stale docs that contradict code.
Rules for this phase:
Prefer 15 high-confidence findings over 50 speculative ones.
Distinguish facts ("this function has no error handling: src/api/client.ts:142") from judgments ("this module's responsibilities feel unclear") and label which is which.
Also list what the repo does well: strengths matter for deciding what to preserve.
Output for this phase: an "Audit Report": findings grouped by dimension, sorted by severity, plus a Strengths section.
Don't forget to mention all the ugly parts that need utmost priority.
Phase 3 / Improvement Strategy
Synthesize the audit into a strategy:
Identify the 3–5 themes that explain most of the findings (e.g., "no enforced boundaries between layers," "error handling is ad hoc").
For each theme, propose a target state and the principle behind it.
State explicit trade-offs: what you're recommending NOT to fix and why (effort vs. payoff, risk, project maturity).
Define what "done" looks like — measurable signals (e.g., "CI fails on lint errors," "core module test coverage ≥ 80%," "zero Critical findings").
Phase 4 / Detailed Task Plan
Convert the strategy into an execution plan:
Break work into discrete tasks. Each task must include: Title and one-paragraph description
Files/areas affected
Acceptance criteria (how we verify it's done)
Effort estimate (S = <2h, M = half-day, L = 1–2 days, XL = needs breakdown)
Risk of the change itself (could it break things?)
Dependencies on other tasks
Order tasks into milestones:
Milestone 0
Safety net: anything needed before refactoring safely (tests around critical paths, CI gates, backups).
Milestone 1
Critical fixes: security and correctness issues.
Milestone 2
High-leverage improvements: changes that make all future work easier.
Milestone 3
Quality & polish: remaining medium/low items worth doing.
Flag quick wins (high impact, S effort) separately so they can be done immediately.
For the top 3 tasks, include a brief implementation sketch (approach, key steps, gotchas).
Final Deliverable Format
• Produce a single document with these sections:
• Executive Summary (≤10 sentences: overall health grade A–F with justification, top 3 risks, top 3 opportunities)
• Repo Map
• Audit Report
• Improvement Strategy
• Task Plan (milestones + task table + quick wins)
• Open Questions: anything you need from a human to decide (product intent, deprecation candidates, performance targets)
Constraints
Do NOT modify any code during this audit. Analysis only.
Do not pad the report. If a dimension is healthy, say so in one sentence and move on.
Calibrate to the project's maturity. Don't recommend enterprise-grade infrastructure for a weekend prototype unless the owner's goals demand it.
Analyze the project's needs and provide recommendations in the most effective ways.
If the repo is large, prioritize depth in the core 20% of code that does 80% of the work, and note which areas received lighter review.
Hello fam! It's another week! And it's also episode 81 of our weekly Cardano Newcomers Support X Space.
Let's discuss everything Cardano and it's okay to come and rant too 😂😂
Set a reminder for my upcoming Space! https://t.co/AdsQAoECin
The Cardano Budget Process hosted by @IntersectMBO needs your input!
https://t.co/uVKzREdDqL
All Ada Holders can leave comments and DReps can cast votes to determine which proposals will be submitted as Treasury Withdrawals. Here are just a few!