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[tbuir @Tbuir0]

@wallstreetbets #midnight

[WallStreetBets @wallstreetbets]

@MidnightNtwrk @AscendPerps private trading is exactly what perps were missing

[Tomás Di Mauro @tomasdm_eth]

Now over 2B people can use cardano:native, on WhatsApp!

Send cardano:native or USDCx to any WhatsApp contact in the world.

We are excited to bring @chatterpay into the Cardano ecosystem.

[Don Digital Finance @niroshan682]

🚨 UPDATE: #Midnight Prepares for Mōhalu Phase

Midnight’s next major phase, Mōhalu, will open network participation to a broader set of block producers, including Cardano stake pool operators, while introducing the DUST capacity exchange. Another important step toward a more decentralized Midnight network

[NightSwap @NightSwapLabs]

People keep comparing $NIGHT to Zcash because both have “privacy.”

Zcash makes transactions private.

But Midnight goes much further. It lets applications compute on private data and prove the result without exposing the data.

Selective disclosure + ZK + smart contracts.

That’s not just private money.

That’s programmable privacy.

A much bigger market 👀

[Hemskets | Pillar | Midnight Ambassador @Hemsketsmelvet]

Let's get midnight-3:native on @Grayscale
Retweet to help make that happen! 🚀

[WallStreetBets @wallstreetbets]

privacy shouldn't be optional

it's a human right

[WallStreetBets @wallstreetbets]

@MidnightNtwrk privacy should be the default

[Will Norris | DRep | ₳D₳ @Cardano_Will]

The Edinburgh Decentralisation Index (EDI) may be one of the best frameworks yet for answering a question crypto usually gets badly wrong:

How decentralised is a blockchain, really?

It doesn't just count validators.

EDI looks across multiple layers including:

🔹 Consensus
🔹 Token distribution
🔹 Software development
🔹 Network infrastructure
🔹 Geography

And its wider research framework also considers hardware, APIs and governance.

Crucially, it tries to identify the real entities behind validators/pools, rather than pretending 50 nodes controlled by one organisation are 50 independent actors.

Applying that logic across the largest L1s gives me roughly:

1. 🥇 ADA — 91
2. 🥈 BTC — 90
3. LTC — 88
4. XMR — 84
5. ETH — 83
6. BCH — 82
7. AVAX — 80
8. DOGE — 79
9. ZEC — 76
10. TON — 75
11. SOL — 75
12. SUI — 73
13. HBAR — 72
14. Canton — 71
15. XLM — 70
16. BNB — 68
17. XRP — 67
18. TRX — 66
19. CRO — 64
20. HYPE — 58

⚠️ Important: EDI currently provides comparable live scores for Cardano, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin. The others are my EDI-style estimates using the same principles — not official Edinburgh scores.

And the individual stories are fascinating.

Bitcoin remains extraordinary: exceptional token distribution, huge node/network resilience and arguably the strongest resistance to governance capture. Its weakness is mining-pool concentration and increasingly industrialised hardware.

Ethereum has phenomenal software and network decentralisation, but validator count is misleading once stake and validator infrastructure are clustered into real entities.

Solana is far more decentralised than its critics claim — but around half of validators currently receive Solana Foundation delegation. Only ~5% of total stake is Foundation delegated, so this isn't Foundation control, but it is an economic dependency worth measuring.

XRP is also more nuanced than "Ripple runs everything." Anyone can operate a validator — but practical consensus revolves around a relatively small curated default UNL and very high overlap between trusted validator lists. That deserves a substantial decentralisation discount.

Zcash has arguably the best deployed private-money technology of the group, but privacy ≠ decentralisation. Mining concentration remains a weakness.

And then there's Cardano.

👉 EDI currently gives Cardano an extraordinary 99.37/100 for consensus decentralisation.

👉 No approved validator list.

👉 No need for Foundation permission to become an SPO.

👉 No industrial ASIC arms race.

👉 Non-custodial stake delegation.

👉 Thousands of pools.

👉 Explicit on-chain governance distributed between ADA holders/DReps, SPOs and the Constitutional Committee.

Cardano doesn't win every decentralisation dimension. Bitcoin actually beats it on EDI's tokenomics measure.

But across the EDI dimensions currently measured:

ADA: 91.3
BTC: 89.5
LTC: 87.6
ETH: 83.4

So I think we need to retire the lazy assumption that:

Bitcoin = decentralised
Everything else = varying degrees of centralisation

Bitcoin may still be the world's hardest and most battle-tested monetary network.

But if the question is:

“Which major blockchain is the most comprehensively decentralised?”

There is now a very serious research-driven case for the answer being:

Cardano. $ADA

[Dr. Cuadrado, PharmD @CuadradoDeFi]

CRYPTO COMMUNITY PLEASE READ!

Is funny how for years one of the biggest criticisms of Cardano was its eUTXO model. It was “too slow,” “too complicated,” and supposedly inferior to Ethereum’s architecture.

Now we have a proposal called “Native UTXOs on Ethereum.”

Corporations, companies, protocols, governments: pay attention. Blockchain architecture matters far more than most people realize.

Ethereum is now exploring UTXO-like properties because there are real advantages in state management, efficiency, and transaction design. Meanwhile, Cardano has been built around eUTXO from the beginning.

That’s the ironic part. Many of the things people used to criticize Cardano for came directly from its obsession with security, determinism, and building the foundation correctly first.

We’ve heard “Cardano is slow” for years. Sure, Cardano historically sacrificed some speed in favor of security and a more rigorous design. But that part is evolving too. Hydra is already here, and Leios is being developed to significantly increase network throughput.

Maybe Cardano was never as far behind as people thought.

Maybe it was simply building years earlier what others are now starting to realize they want.

[tbuir @Tbuir0]

@Grokcardano That’s from 2022…

[tbuir @Tbuir0]

@astroboysoup @OneAmXYZ Dust registration pending for 49 days. Not sure their process works

[tbuir @Tbuir0]

@OneAmXYZ 28 days of dust registration pending … cook faster

[tbuir @Tbuir0]

@JaromirTesar ADA in treasury should be convert to stable coins incrementally to reduce this price fluctuation issue, funding can then request in stable coin terms and be able to deliver

[tbuir @Tbuir0]

@coinbureau Nothing but dishonest posts lately. Linda was right, coin bureau has turn to trash

[tbuir @Tbuir0]

@OneAmXYZ
Unable to send from oneam mobile wallet… “webassembly” doesn’t exist error. Please explain

[tbuir @Tbuir0]

@JaromirTesar Sorry Yoda, but what experiences do you have to make you think this is substantial vs not?

[tbuir @Tbuir0]

@_Night_Forge_ Amazing!

[tbuir @Tbuir0]

@jasonappleton @emurgo_io @Cardano_CF Thank you Crow

[tbuir @Tbuir0]

@astroboysoup The amount of bots and people trying to get your seed phrase from one single comment is crazy.

I’m sure direct messaging any of these people a “ledger” group background photo will lead to the same thing

[tbuir @Tbuir0]

@astroboysoup Can this be done with a cold wallet like ledger or tangem? Or can we only generate dust if night is stored on a hot wallet like Lace?