$ADA
Some chains sell speed.
Some sell TVL.
Some sell a new hype cycle every week.
#Cardano is trying to solve a harder problem:
reducing the need to trust middlemen.
@IOHK_Charles main point was clear.
If a transaction does not carry its own proof of correctness, you have only replaced the old middleman with a new one.
That is not a real revolution.
That is Web2.5 with better branding.
Cardano is playing a slower game.
But if this game works, it is not small.
It is infrastructure for global trust.
ADA holders, through Cardano’s on chain governance, are voting YES to fund Cardano Vision 2026 Research.
The proposal is currently winning by a large majority, sitting around 7% above the approval threshold with just over an hour left.
This supports research into post quantum security, Leios and Peras integration, ZK enabled scaling, Babel fees, SPO incentives, identity, governance, developer experience, and further scalability work across L1 and L2.
At a high level, this is about strengthening the foundations Cardano will need over the next decade.
The proposal includes papers and technical reports, Cardano Problem Statements, prototypes, and Cardano Improvement Proposals, designed to move research closer to real protocol capability.
Funding work that improves Cardano’s security, scalability, resilience, and long term architecture is exactly the kind of decision that can compound over time.
It is also the kind of decision that helps set Cardano apart from other blockchains.
Right now, ADA holders are speaking clearly.
They are saying yes.
BREAKING: Charles Hoskinson is back on X days after saying he’d leave for the summer.
He just dropped an hour-long video on why Cardano is “the only ecosystem that can run the world.”
"The cryptocurrency space is a near-perfect complement to agentic commerce. It's so good. It's like we planned it."
@IOHK_Charles joined New Era Finance to explain why crypto and AI agents were made for each other and why combining them creates something neither can do alone.
Agents are non-deterministic, tremendously creative, and don't have rules by default. Blockchains are deterministic, rule-based, rigid, and all about proofs and provability. Put these two things together and you get a perfect neural symbolic AI system.
The lines that stuck with me:
"Agents are non-deterministic, they're tremendously creative, and they just go and do a lot of stuff. And they also don't have rules by default."
"Blockchains are deterministic. They're rule-based systems. They're very rigid and everything's about proofs and provability."
"If you put these two things together, you basically create a perfect neural symbolic AI system where you get the best of both worlds. Those rigid rules and proofs, but then you get the creativity of it and the ability to deal with ambiguity and semantic drift."
"The cryptocurrency space is a near-perfect complement to agentic commerce. It's so good. It's like we planned it."
"Given the fact that there's so much revenue being generated within the AI agents, how can the ecosystem make sure that liquidity actually flows into other protocols and drives adoption?"
One uncomfortable truth about symbiosis. Five pieces of infrastructure reality reshaping finance.
We cover:
— Why agents and blockchains need each other
— The neurosymbolic AI thesis explained
— How agents generate revenue on-chain
— Why liquidity flow matters for ecosystem growth
— The creative chaos of agents vs rigid rules of code
— How blockchains solve agent trust problems
— Why this partnership was inevitable
— The revenue generation mechanics of agentic commerce
— How semantic drift gets solved with cryptography
— Building systems where both thrive together
Thanks to @IOHK_Charles for coming on @new_era_finance.
Privacy works best with UTXOs.
Intents work best with UTXOs.
Formal verification works best with UTXOs.
There has quite literally never been a better time to be a UTXO chain
Super bullish! 🚀🚀🚀
Layer Zero integration opens up 700+ existing tokens with $80 billion+ in combined market cap and liquidity across Ethereum, Solana and more…. to deploy natively on Cardano, with Cardano level security and smart contracts.
Also opens up the Stargate - the highest volume decentralized bridge across all of crypto.
A new era in the Cardano ecosystem 👇
No more FUD and no more endless debates. The day before yesterday I blocked 12 accounts, yesterday 15, today 8 more. Anyone who spreads Cardano FUD, creates division, starts pointless arguments, or spreads negativity gets blocked. Try it yourself. The ecosystem looks much cleaner, healthier, and more positive when we block the garbage.
Quality and positive people finally get the spotlight they deserve. Try it today. Block them. Just block them. We are building a new era based only on love, positivity, and belief in #Cardano and $ADA
Do not argue with them. Do not reply to their provocations. Do not react. That only feeds them.
Block the garbage and end it.
Culture is eating our strategy
So I have heard this statement before from Charles when it comes to the price of ada maybe 3 years ago on June 10th (ada was .29) we were going thru a bear mkt low , I initially thought he was countering those who were talking crap about the value of ada. The idea of not caring about the price of ada for some is a normal day to day thing (it just isnt why they are here), for those running a business like a SPO it is for some a passion, it is for others a way of life and they do it because they believe in Decentralization (thank God for you guys).
The issue is the rest of us who wish to also have a for profit business like most dapps here operating on Cardano it is very disheartening and probably confusing for some to hear that come out of one of our leaders here in Cardano. This isnt a feature or a bug in Charles hard drive it is a philosophy he stands by as a true libertarian of free mkt and no intrusion from any centralized authority, while maintaining complete autonomy from the fiat system as best he can. Yes he owns many things and even commented one time when ada was over $3 that it was nice to be a billionaire for the first time at least on paper.
The solution for me is too add leaders that are more business minded, that do focus on the price of ada and the solvency of many spo's and dapps currently operating here, we can't feed ourselves on ideals and we don't have BTC war chest in our back paocket like Charles does (not at his level at least) we also got robbed of a bull mkt in in 2021-2022 and then again after Trump won the presidency this last Nov.
There is no excuses when running a business, you ive or die by your decisions on a daily, monthly and annual basis. There are no do overs either so we either hit product mkt fit or we dont in each business cycle, when we don't you regroup (becasue you have prepared for these eventual downturns with hedged capital) Charles is a great visionist/speaker/futurist he is not someone who constantly thinks about the value of the thing that we all depend to pay our teams and our families. This means that we need multiple people with the business acumen to run the business side of things, Charles thru his own admission can not and will not focus on price as part of his mandate to make Cardano the best place to live/work/play, which means the enterprise solutions and commercial applications to develop a healthy commerce here on Cardano is left up to to others to get done.
There are quite a few of us, who have experience in this area and also are not going anywhere, @IOHK_Charles is taking a break its time for a group of Interim-ceo's to bubble up and start working to achieve financial solvency and independence. The beauty of this is we can all look to various dapps that have seen success to date, the ceo's who are running them and find our bearings going forward. Examples of financial success attract others to them and it is infectious, yes I love Charles and am immensely grateful for his initial contribution to our space but thru his own admission is not the right leader to drive financial independence thru increasing commerce here on Cardano.
We can do this together, we have examples of how it is done using our Blockchain all we need to do is follow that lead. This will require internal investment rather then value extraction from our chain, it will require some sacrifice in certain areas in order to get it done but it will also free us from being tied to the ever volatile crypto mkt and the overwhelming depression that comes from watching Ada plummet while were trying to pay bills and operate our business's here on Cardano.
I welcome your thoughts and input as none of us have all the answers and we can't do it alone, this is the time to add to what's already built and successful along with reinvesting in our own economy.
We are all Cardano ceo's and its Time to get to work
for reach @bigpey@Cryptofly777@astroboysoup@cwpaulm@adamKDean@RickMcCracken@InputEndorsers@StakeWithPride@ItsDave_ADA
Current top ten Dapp leaders/Ceo's to date:
Shan Zhang @szh8ng
Long Nguyen @longminswap
Dewayne Cameron @DCdoso and Florian Volery @sachs_johnny
FluidTokens — Matteo Coppola @0xMetamatt and Raul Padilla @elraulito
SundaeSwap — Mateen Motavaf @vmateenv and @Quantumplation@snek Rapha — Snek Foundation: @golden_Rapha
Goofy — Snek founder: @goofy_crisp
Phil — Surf Lending founder: @phillerino
Jon Kravetz — CSWAP founder: @CSWAP_Destroy
Christian Schmitz — Pulse founder: @cschmitz398
VyFinance — Steven Ward @methebim@Indigo_protocol Eric Coley
@wingriderscom Roman
There are others but we need a concerted effort from everyone who calls this their business home
#Cardano fam, They counted $ADA out. Down ~34% on the week, sitting at #15, trading near $0.16 while the headlines write its obituary.
But here’s what the obituary leaves out.
Cardano never stopped building. While the market chased hype, Cardano shipped peer-reviewed code. And the next 12 months may be the most loaded stretch in its history:
🔹 Van Rossem Hard Fork (late June) → Protocol v11, leaner Plutus contracts, a stronger ledger. The engine room is getting an overhaul.
🔹 Spot ADA ETF window opens → Grayscale, VanEck, 21Shares & Canary all in line. The single biggest demand catalyst ADA has ever faced — institutional money that can’t buy today.
🔹 Midnight → privacy + regulated assets as a partner chain. More surface area: identity, DeFi, institutional rails.
🔹 x402 + AI agent payments → Cardano positioning for the machine economy before most chains even noticed it exists.
🔹 63%+ of supply staked → a holder base that doesn’t flinch. Diamond hands aren’t a meme here, they’re the data.
Top 5 isn’t nostalgia. It’s a thesis. Research-first chains don’t sprint — they compound. And when adoption finally meets infrastructure that was built to last, the re-rate won’t be gentle.
The strongest hands accumulate when conviction is cheap.
Patience is a position.
@CardanoFeed
A dead chain doesnt have online protestors professing its dead so people will look away. Cardano has competitors, afraid of its 0 hacks, 0 downtime, interoperability with a selective privacy partner chain that mints its own gas with throughput expansions and quantum proofiing coming.
🚀 Cardano’s 2025 “Poisoned Transaction” Attack: Why It Proves the Network’s Strength
People forget fast, but let’s not forget how Cardano handled one of its toughest tests.
On November 21, 2025, a disgruntled actor submitted a deliberately malformed delegation transaction. It exploited an old deserialization bug (from 2022) that newer vs older node versions handled differently. Result? A temporary chain split — “poisoned” chain vs “healthy” chain.
What DIDN’T happen:
❌ Network never fully stopped
❌ No blocks halted — production continued on both sides
❌ Zero user funds lost
❌ No successful exploit or theft
How Cardano Blocked & Recovered (Brilliantly):
IOG, Cardano Foundation, Intersect & SPOs coordinated in hours
Emergency patch (node v10.5.3) released fast
Stake Pool Operators upgraded quickly
Ouroboros consensus did its magic — healthy chain grew stronger, automatically overtook the poisoned one via longest-chain rule. Self-healed in ~14 hours.
This wasn’t luck. It was research-driven design in action: decentralized, resilient, and built to recover without drama.
Cardano doesn’t just survive attacks — it learns, patches, and comes back stronger. That’s why it’s trusted for real adoption (Midnight, DeFi, perps via $ASCEND & more).
Numbers don’t lie: High staking, low fees, growing activity, and now even more battle-tested.
Forget the FUD. Cardano is engineered for the long game.
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