Time for a PFP update 👀
I’ve been proudly repping @claymates and Clay Nation for a long time (shoutout to @lennaverse too). I still love the project and I’ll keep supporting them forever.
But I’m stepping into the next phase:
→ Credibility: In business and BD, people want to know exactly who they’re talking to.
→ Recognition: I’m constantly at events and conferences, now it’s way easier to connect IRL.
→ Trust: Real faces build real connections. Avatars have their moment, but authenticity wins long-term.
The space is maturing. So am I.
See you around, now much easier to spot 🙃
Bull markets don't create ecosystems.
They reveal who spent the bear market creating value.
The next wave of users will go where the best products already exist.
Adoption is earned before it happens.
Another protocol in the Tx3 registry to check out: Strike Staking.
@strikeperps is a decentralized derivatives platform. STRIKE is its governance token, and you can stake it on Cardano to earn a cut of trading fees.
A quick look at the protocol 🧵
https://t.co/jpoiFOQb7W
Assuming the item was linked to an NFT, both @nmkr_io and @AnvilDevAgency have APIs to both issue the tokens and update the metadata of said token. If the token itself is not majorly critical because you are not actually transferring the ownership of the token from person to person, you could accomplish similar with a registered address+datum or metadata format and just update the on-chain record. Tx3 by @txpipe_tools could help here as it makes it relatively trivial to describe what actions you're taking in close to "plain language" while obfuscating a lot of the UTxO complexity
Composability is the quiet problem on Cardano.
Integrating protocols today means unpacking their smart contracts & hand-wiring transactions from scratch, which makes development impractical.
Tx3 is the initiative by TxPipe to push in this direction: a generalised protocol interface that auto-generates typed clients in multiple languages. Think OpenAPI for Web2, Tx3 is that for Cardano.
Tx3 allows for devs to write templates for their dApp transactions once and they’re reusable in any codebase/language.
This is how we should handle tx building in 2026 and beyond.
I would love to start seeing a library of all Cardano dApps expressed as Tx3 templates!
If @TapTools submits a proposal to maintain the platform for 1 year, I’ll support it openly. I know my influence within the ecosystem is minimal, but I also know that many others would support a proposal like that.
Imagine wallets embedding dApps in their own UX.
Imagine LLMs orchestrating dApps without worrying about tx building.
Imagine business workflows integrating Cardano as easily as a Web2 API.
Tx3's value proposition is simple: let devs interact with UTxO protocols as if they were simple APIs.
Let's take a look at a concrete example.
Let's integrate calls to @BodegaCardano. 🧵👇
Tx3 gives UTxO the interface layer it’s been missing,a machine-readable spec with typed clients. It already builds transactions via Dolos, and Evolution SDK could be a TypeScript-native alternative in that engine layer.
Infrastructure worth backing → https://t.co/2rBNkJ1zYY
🎙️@santicarmuega from @txpipe_tools explained Tx3 and for Cardano.
API layer will enable dev onboarding, AI interactions, and intent-based DeFi. Similar to @near_intents
Just say what you want, and it happens. No jumping from DApp to DApp.
Most developers don't care about UTxOs, eUTxOs, validators, reference inputs, or any other Cardano primitive.
They care about solving business problems.
Every project we've shown Tx3 to agrees on one thing:
making Cardano protocols feel like consuming a normal API is probably one of the fastest paths to adoption.
Grabbed my @buidler_fest ticket through @txpipe_tools — fast, no drama.
TX3 lets you describe transactions instead of building them by hand. If you work with UTxO chains, you know why that matters.
https://t.co/b5x0QV6HNB–
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