🎙Neon Pulse EP 04
Cardano in Asia
The next half of 2026 kicks off and there's a lot brewing.
A few events lining up in HK & Taiwan, and some recent movesin the ecosystem worth talking about.
Time for an open mic.
What's on the table:
· What's coming up in HK & Taiwan this H2
· Recent happenings in Cardano
· How to join if you want to be part of it
· Bring your questions with us
🗓 Jun 29 (Mon) ·19:30 UTC+8
📍 X Space · 中文 mainly
Pull up a seat. Let's talk shop
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Privacy talk is everywhere. Shipping privacy is rare.
Midnight Community · AMA #01 Inside @MidnightNtwrk
Featured: @sabrinaliuuuu
Hosts: @CardanoLeo@NealSIDAN
What we'll cover:
-The biggest updates this quarter
-Nightforce, Aliit Fellowship & how to join
-Rapid fire with Sabrina
-Open community Q&A
🗓 Jun 26 (Fri) · 18:00 UTC+8
📍 X Space · 中文 mainly
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USDCx on @Cardano, a USDC-backed stablecoin with seamless access to crosschain USDC liquidity, is now available via Circle xReserve.
With USDCx, enterprises and end users can power payments, lending, trading, borrowing, liquidity provision, and more using a highly liquid stablecoin.
Supported at launch by Cardano DeFi apps @liqwidfinance, @MinswapDEX, and @SundaeSwap.
Key benefits:
✅USDCx is 1:1 backed by USDC held in xReserve
✅Fully interoperable with USDC across supported chains
✅Trust minimized with no third-party bridges required
**For the first 10 days, IOG will be covering all costs for bridging USDC to USDCx on Cardano, helping early adopters get started without fees or friction.**
Learn more: https://t.co/yOA12hJQDk
CGOV V2 Release.
You can now connect your wallet and vote as DRep on onchain governance actions. Compatible with all Cardano Wallet browser extensions. 🫡
The First Hydra DEX — DeltaDeFi Official Launch:
LIVE 🟢
Remarks:
🔹A Special Maintenance Arrangement for day 1: 🕑 2:00–3:30 PM UTC
🔹Scheduled Maintenance will occur daily (🕒 3:00-4:30 AM UTC) to handle deposits and withdrawals.
The First Hydra DEX — DeltaDeFi Official Launch
January 22 2026, 03:00 UTC
Experience the Hydra speed with:
✅Unlimited Deposit: ♾️
✅Distinct XP: Earn experience points through trading
✅New Trading Pairs: Gradually listed on DeltaDeFi
✅Need Help? Find us in our Discord: https://t.co/p1IWxITOhd
We’re excited to support @MidnightNtwrk on DeltaDeFi - The First Hydra DEX
🔹 Night/USDM trading pairs are coming to our Hydra DEX
🔹 Traders can trade Night on our order-book DEX with a CEX-like experience.
🔹 Expanding access across the Cardano ecosystem
You ready? 🔥
The governance action has been onchain for 10+ days. As first time proposer, here is some of my thoughts.
🔹Dis-information floods around the internet, and it is hard to explain. Some mentioned Hydra hasn’t launched, some think DeltaDeFi can only serves single digit users as constrained by Hydra head. None of these are true, but I can’t explain them all.
🔹Cardano governance has certainly improved since the 39 proposals time, on average DReps vote with better quality rationale.
And I have received some questions on motivation, here I would explain some of our thoughts.
🔸Why GA, why Treasury?
We believe DeltaDeFi, and its development is community good. More resources of building DeltaDeFi is spent in open source than DeltaDeFi itself. In the journey of building DeltaDeFi, we left our footprint in open source all-around - we contributed significantly to MeshJS feature complete, built the entire SIDAN Lab open source suite, and now pushing PR to Hydra.
We are an extremely efficient team. We believe we can generate more value than we consume for Cardano ecosystem regardless the pathway, as one of our old friends mentioned.
🔸What does the GA actually mean?
The high level idea of the GA is to ship DeltaDeFi, and make sure it is not just another unused adopted DApp around. A direct consequence is to contribute to the Cardano Vision 2030 so we prove Cardano is not a ghost chain.
Funding is important, but more importantly is the symbolic meaning. its representing a force of adoption, which believes it requires extra-ordinary active efforts to make Cardano widely adopted, to a scale of as a go-to location to develop new blockchain use cases.
There is no right or wrong of whether in the team of adoption, but it is a gesture shown to builders who care, who will in turn come and go.
🔸So why should ecosystem fund private initiative?
In long term we want to position DeltaDeFi as an ecosystem centric project. We can certainly commit for a payback for the proposal. And ironically, it was indeed included in the first draft of this GA, just we thought it might complicate the administration for a relatively small proposal (it is indeed just 600k with current ADA price). We’d happy to see the treasury succeeds before us.
🔸Final thought
We will address most valid feedback collected so far, draft a more pure ecosystem-centric proposal.
For the time being, we appreciate DReps continue voting on current proposal with rationale, so the entire ecosystem has a better understanding about where we are standing.
New pre-release: Whisky v1.0.18-beta.1
To increase flexibility in serialization backends, Whisky now supports Pallas as an optional serializer (CSL remains supported).
Release notes: https://t.co/dkryym47Q2
DRep–delegator communication is a gap in Cardano governance.
SIDAN Lab has built a Discord ↔️ web integration where delegators share opinions in discord server and sentiment appears on a web dashboard for Drep voting consideration.
Demo by @AnsonSIDAN in https://t.co/CgmDq3Ox2B
Comment below if there is any feedback!