Huge win for Cardano & Algorand!!
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a Blockchain Advisory Group.
Cardano & Algorand are officially members, giving both ecosystems a seat at the table as blockchain adoption is explored at a global scale!!
$ADA is now included in the new @Nasdaq and @CMEGroup crypto index futures, alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other market leaders.
The Cardano ecosystem keeps maturing, and Wall Street is noticing.
1/
You can't have a serious DeFi ecosystem without a serious lending protocol. @liqwidfinance is Cardano's. ๐ฃ
Most people sleep on this. They chase flashy yield farms and DEXs. But lending is the foundation. It's where capital efficiency happens. Without it, you're just moving tokens around.
๐ Evening Recap June 7
ADA sitting at $0.1653 and up 5% on the day while the broader market noise continues. Here's what actually matters:
We spent today locked in on builder conviction. Two conviction posts on @AscendPerps, two on @liqwidfinance not because we're shilling, but because the infrastructure getting built on Cardano doesn't care about price action. Perps markets and lending protocols don't get better when the chart goes up. They get better when builders actually use them. That's the signal ๐ซก๐พ
The governance breakdown we published earlier this week is landing different now. Your ADA isn't just a bag. It's voting power. It's stake. And while everyone's watching Bitcoin's slide and Ethereum Foundation drama play out, the Cardano timeline is quietly waking up to what actually compounds participation, not panic.
Social activity surging while price bleeds is the contrarian tell. That's not cope. That's the difference between a project with momentum and one running on fumes. When retail disappears and builders stay? Let him cook ๐ง๐พโ๐ง
Tomorrow: Watch if this 5% holds and whether the conviction posts convert to actual volume on @AscendPerps and @liqwidfinance. Real metrics matter more than green candles.
$ADA
#Cardano #DeFi #BuilderEnergy
๐จ HOLY SMOKES. FBI Director Kash Patel reveals **3 MILLION** p*dophile accounts on the Tor network were taken down, plus a nearly 100% SURGE in child predator arrests
"7,200 kids that we found that got to go home. 3,400 child predators and traffickers arrested. That's up 99% from the best year Biden ever had. That means kids are being protected at levels that are simply unheard of!"
"And that means this FBI, here's another thing. We didn't just do the physical work on the streets. We went to the cyber community and we dismantled 3 million pedophile accounts off the Tor network where these predators prey on our children and think they can hide from this FBI."
"They can't. We are going to the ends of the earth and the cyber realm to make sure our most precious commodity kids are safeguarded."
"And the numbers speak for themselves because the FBI are putting kids first." @FBIDirectorKash@kayleighmcenany
Cardanoโs Ouroboros Leios is one of the most important scaling upgrades currently being developed for Cardano.
The goal is simple, but technically difficult. Increase throughput without weakening the security and decentralisation properties that make Ouroboros valuable in the first place.
Leios has just now reached another meaningful milestone, with recent progress around the testnet implementation being merged in and expected to be delivered this month.
Leios will expand Cardanoโs throughput. without changing the reasons Cardano matters.
Leios will allow Cardano to scale
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.
๐จ WTF?! President Trump just revealed he PARDONED a man who was sentenced to SEVEN YEARS in federal prison for fixing his OWN truck or tractor
"The Democrats have a restriction that if you get caught fixing your tractor, they bring you to JAIL. Did you know that?!"
"I pardoned a man last week who was sentenced to SEVEN YEARS in jail because he got caught fixing his car or truck."
"I said, 'what did he do?' 'He was fixing his truck!'
I said, 'how long is he getting? '7 years'
I said, 'say it again!' It's the first time I've ever heard it...
I gave him a pardon because he had to go to JAIL because he was fixing HIS tractor or his truck. So I promise.. if you ever get caught fixing your tractor or truck, I will give you a pardon, OK?"
Looney democrat regulation strikes again...
๐ Borrowing just got even better.
The fee structure updates from LIP-148 and LIP-149 are now live:
โ USDCx borrowing with 0% loan origination fees
โ USDCx borrow rate reduced to 8% at 90% utilization
โ StableSwap LP borrowing with 0% loan origination fees
โ StableSwap LP borrow rate reduced to 0.2% at 80% utilization
This makes our stablecoin markets among the most borrower-friendly and competitive in Cardano DeFi.
๐ NIGHT Airdrop Update
The second of four NIGHT airdrop unthaw distributions for ADA market liquidity providers is ready.
Eligible LPs can now claim their unlocked NIGHT allocation on the rewards platform:
https://t.co/8m42MXijFI
Claim your rewards and stay tuned for future unthaw distributions.