Keith Tardiff (CryptoMan)

Cardano Stake Pool Operator (SPO) operating stake pool CMAN1 on mainnet using the latest technologies.

[Christian Taylor @DeOpenSourceGuy]

Given yesterday's overarching response, I did some analysis of the replies on toxicity and possible coordination activity, results are below in pngs of the report Grok ran on 130ish replies. No privacy is breached here since thread is public.

"Charles Hoskinson is facing a dual problem on X.
The first is raw toxicity — nearly one in three replies in this thread is hostile, abusive, or profanity-laden, directed at him personally across six distinct categories.
The second is evidence of targeting — a subset of that hostility shows coordination signals including identical language patterns, thin anonymous accounts, and cross-chain references that point toward organized amplification.
A meaningful portion of negative replies also reflects genuine community frustration — financial losses, delivery concerns, and leadership accountability.
Treating all negativity as a coordinated campaign risks dismissing legitimate voices and accelerating the community fragmentation the hostile actors are hoping to cause"

Source thread: https://t.co/w5HBXFcrAX

[Taichi Yokoyama🇯🇵 @taichiyokoyama]

Final hours before DRep voting closes.

First of all, thank you to every DRep who has already participated and cast a vote on the @IOGroup treasury proposals.

What matters most is that DReps actively participate and make their voices heard.

If you have not voted yet, please take a moment to make your voice heard and cast your vote.

[Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles]

@yutazzz We will not resubmit if it fails

[Dan Gambardello @dangambardello]

If you're a Cardano holder, please repost this immediately.

We've come to an absolute defining moment for ADA.

In the next 48 hours, the proposals that fund Cardano development are being decided.

While the #2 chain in crypto loses their builders or researchers, Cardano can keep theirs, at one of the most critical times of the altcoin cycle.

Cardano has come this far. It can not stop here.

DReps, think about the impact here.

Holders, make your voice heard.

[Input Output Group @IOGroup]

Most of the work in this portfolio is infrastructure, the systems and tooling that determine what Cardano can support over the next 3-5 years.

It covers scaling, maintenance, developer tooling, formal verification, indexing, and protocol upgrades. The work is less visible than product launches or market cycles, but it is what allows the ecosystem to keep growing without compromising performance or reliability.

The goal is to strengthen the foundation while expanding what Cardano is capable of supporting at scale.

That is what this vote is about.

Voting closes in four days, 24 May: https://t.co/x9KA1ps77C

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

THIS IS HUGE:

Trump just signed an EO directing the Fed to review giving crypto firms DIRECT access to master accounts.

Translation: crypto firms could move money like banks instead of relying on banks to do it for them.

No more middlemen.

Direct line to the US payment rails.

The Fed has 120 days to report back.

[lace.io @lace_io]

We know a lot of you have been waiting on iOS, so here’s where things stand.

The base version of the app has today been approved by Apple and is live here: https://t.co/75dWX3KzgD

Some features are currently unavailable after being flagged during Apple’s extended review process under Guideline 3.1.5, which applies to apps connected to crypto exchange services. Rather than delay the release any further, we chose to launch the approved version first while continuing to work through the remaining items with Apple.

For now, the flagged dApp Explorer entries, Swap, and the fiat on-ramp have been temporarily removed from the iOS build. The goal is to bring these back as approvals come through.

The process itself has been slow and pretty tedious, with review feedback arriving in roughly two-day cycles, but progress is being made and we’re getting closer each round.

Really appreciate everyone sticking with us through it. We’ll keep sharing updates as more features are cleared and rolled out.

https://t.co/75dWX3KzgD

[Cardano Foundation @Cardano_CF]

AI systems make decisions every day on data that can't be verified.

Blockchain provides the infrastructure to change that. The Cardano Academy course on Coursera, built with the @blockchainRI, covers how.

Free. Closes November. Enroll now: https://t.co/Th59yY0vZo

[Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles]

@DevenMat Well the rumor is a complete lie. The entire sale is documented in the ada voucher audit report https://t.co/b3WYOIsxeq

[Carlos Lopez de Lara @carloslodelar]

🫡Hey Cardano DReps!

Leios is close to reach the threshold. Thank you to all of you who have voted yes. We won't let you down!

We still need the YES vote 🗳️from many more DReps to reach the 67% threshold.

This is the last epoch, voting ends on the last block before Sunday May 24 9:44 UTC.

Let's go!

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 HUGE: "We’re not here to make the people who broke the economy in 2008 richer. We’re here to change the world.” - Hoskinson

[Anuj Chaudhary @AnujChaudhary25]

Most undervalued assets right now cardano:native & midnight-3:native

[Sssebi🦁 @Sssebi]

Everyone will be buying $ADA once they realize what Cardano can do.

[Bertus_Maximus @BertusMaximus2]

I’m quietly buying as much $NIGHT at .03 as I can afford. Call it a hunch.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Six weeks after September 11, 2001, twelve American soldiers were quietly loaded onto a helicopter in Uzbekistan and flown over the Hindu Kush mountains in the dead of night.
No tanks. No armored vehicles. No air support waiting on the ground.
Just twelve Green Berets, over a hundred pounds of gear each, and a mission that their own commanders privately doubted any of them would survive.
They landed in a remote Afghan village called Dehi, in the pitch black, surrounded by a country they barely had maps for.
And then someone handed them horses.
Not metaphorically. Actual horses — Afghan stallions, tough as nails and famously difficult to control. Wooden saddles covered in carpet scraps. Stirrups so short their knees rode up around their ears.
Captain Mark Nutsch, who'd grown up on a cattle ranch in Kansas and competed in collegiate rodeos, became trail boss on the spot. For the other ten men on his team — Operational Detachment Alpha 595 of the 5th Special Forces Group — the learning curve was immediate and unforgiving. The first words one of his sergeants learned in Dari were: "How do you make him stop?"
They had linked up with General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a Northern Alliance warlord who controlled thousands of fighters and knew this territory like the back of his hand. The deal was simple: the Americans would call in precision airstrikes from horseback. Dostum's cavalry would do the charging. Together, they would take Mazar-i-Sharif — a Taliban stronghold of 250,000 people — and crack open northern Afghanistan.
Military planners had estimated it would take two years.
Task Force Dagger gave ODA 595 three weeks.
For 23 days of nearly continuous combat, the Horse Soldiers lived like men from a different century. They ate what the Afghans ate. They slept on the ground in freezing mountain passes. They rode trails so narrow and sheer that one wrong step meant a thousand-foot drop. Staff Sergeant Will Summers started the mission at 185 pounds. He left Afghanistan five weeks later weighing 143.
The Taliban had tanks. Soviet-era armor, antiaircraft guns, fortified positions dug into the mountains. Against this, twelve Americans on horseback radioed coordinates to aircraft circling invisibly above, and watched the positions erupt.
On November 9, 2001, they rode into the kind of moment that people are not supposed to experience in the modern world.
Nutsch and his team joined hundreds of Dostum's horsemen in a thundering cavalry charge across an open plain — directly into entrenched Taliban lines. Under fire. At a gallop. Calling in close air support between strides.
It was the first cavalry charge of the 21st century.
It was also the last.
The next day, Mazar-i-Sharif fell. The Taliban's northern stronghold collapsed. Within weeks, the regime itself began to unravel — a domino effect that started with twelve men and borrowed horses in the mountains.
All twelve of them came home.
Zero American fatalities. Against a fortified enemy that outnumbered and outgunned them at every turn.
Today, across from Ground Zero in New York City, there is a bronze statue — sixteen feet tall — of a Special Forces soldier on horseback, rifle across his lap, looking west. It honors ODA 595 and the teams who rode with them.
Most Americans walk past it every day without knowing the story.
Now you do.

[Cardano Foundation @Cardano_CF]

Blockchain has use cases across every major industry.

But what does that actually mean?

[Mintern @MinswapIntern]

ADA TO $35 IN 90 DAYS 😱😱😱

XRP Captain @UniverseTwenty says Cardano is nearing a vertical breakout, predicting a move to $35 in 90 days and as high as $230 before the end of 2026.

[johnny5i @realjohnny5i]

The best.
Hilarious.
Dearest Charles,

I wanted to take a moment to say something that often gets lost in the noise.

What you have been dealing with, the constant barrage, the bad-faith criticism, the trolling, is not insignificant. It is real pressure, and not the kind most people could withstand while continuing to build, lead, and show up every day.

There is a truth that shows up again and again in nature. Some of the most remarkable things do not just survive harsh conditions. They depend on them. Forests regenerate after fire. Certain seeds only open under extreme heat. Even diamonds are formed under conditions that would break almost anything else.

Sometimes, even humor comes from that same place.

This hilarious monologue was clearly born from frustration, but it also showed something important. It was super entertaining and creative. It should remind people that behind the role and the expectations, there is a person responding in real time to real pressure. That authenticity matters.

It is unfortunate that it took that kind of pressure to bring that moment out, but it also says something about resilience. Something engaging and even entertaining came out of a situation that was not fair to begin with.

There are many of us who see the bigger picture.

We see the work.
We see the consistency.
We see the willingness to stand in the arena, even when the crowd is not kind.
Not everything that comes out under pressure is weakness. Sometimes it is proof of strength.
Thank you for continuing to build, to lead, and to show up.
To PROOF OF STRENGTH 🥂

Respectfully,
johnny5i

[Keith Tardiff (CryptoMan) @ktango777]

RT @Cardano_CF: This week's term: Cardano - /ˈhttps://t.co/Z08qGQXTYP

Definition → a proof-of-stake blockchain platform made for secure, s…

[LaPetite🦋🍄 @LaPetiteADA]

Buongiorno from Bologna! 🇮🇹🦋🍄

This building is one of Italy’s symbols of financial power.

It’s the Palazzo della Banca d'Italia, right on Piazza Cavour.

Back in the 19th century, banks needed to look rich to convince people their money was safe. Every grand arcade, fresco, and golden detail wasn’t just decoration, it was a psychological security system. Beauty = credibility. 👀

Inside these walls, gold reserves and national financial secrets were locked away in massive vaults, protected like treasures in a fortress. Only a select few could access them.

It’s fascinating to think: the architecture itself was part of the financial system. The purpose was to project trust and stability.

Makes me wonder… Do the people behind our current financial system still put on a "show" just to make us believe our money is safe? 🤔