🪏Ed n'Stuff

Truth seeker, gamer, guitar player, health nut. #Cardano $ADA community member since 2018.
Occasionally funny.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

1) I was close friends with Clifford for the last 10 years of his life. He was one of the kindest people I've ever known and the real deal. He was part of #UFO crash retrievals. He had the largest private collection of official gov. documents on this matter. #UFOtwitter #UFOX

[Vicky Verma @Unexplained2020]

Just Remembering.. Sgt. Clifford Stone claimed he participated in missions to recover UFOs that crashed on Earth."The US Government Has More Than 50 Alien Species Cataloged!"

#UFOtwitter #UAPtwitter #UAPs #UAP #UFOX #uapX

[Jack B @JBriggsLondon]

This week is sentiment, not substance. The macro backdrop is hitting nearly every risk asset at once, and that says very little about what's being built here.

Cardano's greatest strengths remain unchanged: security, reliability, and a community capable of taking the long view when we cut through the noise.

Significant improvements are in active development and closing in on delivery. Midnight is a huge value-add to Cardano for many reasons. RealFi is real. Parameter changes, proposals, and solutions are being voted on now. Stablecoin adoption is growing. DeFi activity is picking up. All of this is happening regardless of market sentiment.

But there are real challenges to address. We should (and we do) acknowledge them.

From my POV, Cardano needs to consolidate around the areas where we can genuinely win and where we find alignment with many of the reasons we wanted to be here in the first place. Banking the unbanked. Connecting the unconnected. These remain powerful reminders of why we show up.

We also have to take more deliberate action today. We need to back builders who are already creating value, while giving promising teams the support and opportunity to prove what's possible. We need to support our KOLs and voices helping tell Cardano's story and bringing people in to take another look. We need to create a white-glove experience for the best teams, founders, and contributors who choose to build here.

The best founders and teams should feel that Cardano is the easiest ecosystem in which to succeed, and we have everything in our power to make that true.

All of this requires capital, and there's no getting around it. One of the strongest signals any ecosystem can send is confidence in itself. We need to be prepared to invest in our builders, our teams, and the opportunities in front of us.

We also have to find alignment on how we fund growth and development over the next five years, where we concentrate our efforts, where we need to rescope and consolidate, and how we better equip builders and teams to succeed. I think it's fair to say we need to make changes, be that constitutional or structural. These decisions will do more to shape Cardano's future than any market cycle ever will.

Taking my own advice, I'm actively working on Intersect's long-term role, what needs to evolve and change, and how we can best support the ecosystem through its next phase.

These are not small conversations, and no single person or organization has all the answers. But there is far more that unites us than divides us, and the progress being made across the ecosystem proves it.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@jimbolynya @cameron Life is short. Make someone's day better. Peace ✌️

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

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.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@TheDr_TheDr I know @snj_peters's attire is ready to go I bet. Suit up!

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@phillip_pon @emurgo_io I sent it. It's there.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@cardano_crimson @F_Gregaard @jasonappleton I appreciate it.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@RationalMale Profound irony here.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@CashAnvil @Miller_19k I'm trying to step up. 🙋‍♂️

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@CSWAP_Destroy @phillip_pon I'm working on it brother.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@phillip_pon @emurgo_io Thanks for being open to discussion and making yourself available. Jack found it worth his time and I hope it's the same for you. I sent you a long message, happy to work out a time to chat.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@Cryptofly777 @abstractpotato @coinbureau We're out here doing what we can ms linda.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

Hey Fred. Our current mode of discourse and governance is dysfunctional as seen by the objective results and broad community sentiment. I have had a long chat with Jack at intersect, have had discourse with Charles, and soon with Phil at emurgo about my concrete ideas to improve things. I suggest you and I do the same. Give me a follow and I can message you, and we can go from there.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

I'm working on it. There needs to be a serious reimagining of how we do things. We've run the experiment now on the current way we do things here, and seen the results. It's time to take that and improve. If we do not, ADA will continue to suffer and nobody's holdings, including the founding entities, will be worth holding in the first place. I look forward to chatting with you.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@LinkXxs I'm trying to do my part, productively. That's all I can do. Lead by example, provide solutions, etc.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

Yes the markets are down. But #Cardano is bleeding harder because we air our grievances, dirty laundry, and sausage making in public, and our governance accelerates this. Our comms and governance must and will change for ours and $ADA’s sake. It's being worked on.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@Keffertjes1 @adamKDean It's not perfect, but it improved over time, and it has been a productive central hub for midnight. But adam is right to make sure that even if that became the primary spot for certain ada conversation, that others elsewhere are still clued in and considered in their commentary.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@Geez_Squared @dori_coin

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@Rizzabeast That's a myopic response. Cardano has a number of issues, and the op is one major one. Our current mode of discourse and our governance model is dysfunctional and has compounded those issues.