For the last like 6+ years @IOGroup has hosted an at least monthly "SPO Call" (s/o @cryptstitution and team) where news and information can be shared about the latest in what's coming up or educational for our validator set. The calls are open to the public and they frequently ask the community if they have any news or information to share that would be helpful for the SPO community....
Who's doing this for DReps? What's stopping you (or me, or anyone else) from doing it? Does this really cost anything more than time and maybe a $20/month Zoom package?
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.
🚨 I start accumulating #ADA
The market is nervous, sentiment is weak, and that’s usually when the best opportunities appear.
Maybe I’m early. Maybe I’m wrong. Time will tell.
Cardano’s 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 Cardano’s throughput. without changing the reasons Cardano matters.
Leios will allow Cardano to scale
Charles Hoskinson: "If we're real, we can survive anything" 🛡️
"Cardano was at two and a half cents and a year later is at $3. Things can change very rapidly."
"The winners and losers cycle and rotate all the time, so it doesn't bother me at all."
15,000 farms are registered on Cardano with satellite-verified land and sustainability records. 🌱
A new case study shows how @SyngentaFndnInd turned fragmented agricultural data into trusted infrastructure that lenders, insurers, and traders can reuse.
https://t.co/TjgNAchday
In difficult times we need to stick together. Focus on the mission and ignore the haters. What we’re learning is that while there are many benefits of a decentralized system; an executive function to set the parameters is needed especially in an industry sector that has not fully matured.
We welcome conversations with @IOHK_Charles@F_Gregaard@JBriggsLondon to perhaps revisit our current governance. I believe there is a place for the community, DReps and CCs but perhaps more focused in our asks or better incentivised. We have or will be reaching out to the FEs and Intersect to find a way forward.
And in all the doom and gloom; we do have some positive announcements in the pipeline for Cardano. Stay tuned.
@WeissCrypto 100% agree. He helped build the most decentralized top 15 chain which has had ZERO failed block creation since launch... that is incerdible.
We are going to transition as needed with our governance & comms here in #Cardano $ADA land. That said, we need quantum resistance as that tech rapidly accelerates with Microsoft shooting for 2029. We need to get this R&D proposal over the line for now. Yes, even in this market.
Cardano DReps - Post Quantum safety is high priority - must have technology. Cardano needs to advance from currently Tier 2 PQ to Tier 1 + PQ safe.
Only 4 days left to vote on this proposal, needs CC votes too: Cardano Vision 2026: Human Centred, Scalable, Post Quantum Secure.
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