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I just received 10 coffees from Teeman on @buymeacoffee! https://t.co/7hXeOULTIp

[Pete @astroboysoup]

Bitcoin doesn’t need another custodial bridge. 🚫🏦

Full interview: 🎥 https://t.co/XKqIErn5cU

@FluidTokens Bifrost uses Cardano SPOs and a 67% stake threshold to secure BTC, with a path towards borrowing and simpler DeFi. 💰

I got into the design with @elraulito on Builders Bench.

Chapters below. 📖👇

0:00 Intro
1:19 What Is Bifrost?
4:20 How Bifrost Secures Bitcoin
8:44 Stake Pool Operators Run the Bridge
10:04 Could Someone Attack It?
11:44 Can Bitcoin Fix Cardano DeFi?
14:57 What Bitcoiners Want
17:44 One-Click Bitcoin DeFi
19:08 Bifrost Testnet Walkthrough

[Pete @astroboysoup]

New Cardano news update is up.

The @Cardano_CF response to MiCA, ADA as a digital commodity, a 22 million ADA copper-reserve proposal, CIP-23 heading into the Dijkstra hard fork, 100,000 farms registered on Cardano, and a water-heater element that mines Bitcoin.

https://t.co/88bhcOfbEN

0:00 Intro and a Word of Warning
1:17 Cardano Foundation Responds to MiCA
2:03 Non-Custodial Staking on Cardano
3:03 What About Australian Regulation?
4:32 ADA as a Digital Commodity
6:14 How Stake Pool Operators Get Paid
7:26 @totofinance Copper Reserve Proposal
9:56 Treasury Season and Funding
10:32 @ATADA_Stakepool CIP-23 Min Margin in the Dijkstra Hard Fork
10:54 5am earth: 100,000 Farms on Cardano
11:55 @YetAnotherAiGuy Lovelace Land: Cardano Ecosystem in 3D
13:30 @realfi_co Tokenised Fund Hits $2.7M
14:06 @tokenterminal Data in Claude
15:07 @heatbit_com: Heat Water, Mine Bitcoin
17:18 Putting Bitcoin Mining Heat to Use
18:39 Wrap Up

General info only, not financial advice.

[Pete @astroboysoup]

Midnight’s Nightmode brings shielded privacy and selective disclosure to the chains and wallets people already use.

This update covers the new roadmap, Passport SDK, Starstream, Nightstream, the Tron demo, Dynamic’s Fireblocks-backed integration and the Freedom Fighters series.

Chapters:
0:00 @MidnightNtwrk Ecosystem Update
0:13 A Word of Warning
0:47 The Midnight Roadmap
2:17 Identity and Selective Disclosure
3:25 Scaling, Starstream and Nightstream
4:30 Night Mode
6:07 Night Mode Coming to @trondao
6:59 @dynamic_xyz and @FireblocksHQ
7:28 Single Sign-On With Your Wallet
8:59 Why Integration Took So Long
10:33 @F_ZK_Now at @token2049
11:14 Freedom Fighters
12:29 Wrap Up
12:52 Final Safety Reminder

https://t.co/W7N0pDVHSL

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New look, same mission 👍

[Pete @astroboysoup]

Dear Cardano Community🫂, I need your help. 🙏

I’m building an escrow layer on Cardano.

The idea: make escrow a LEGO piece that developers and businesses can plug into their products.

Before I spend the next 6–12 months building it out, I want to know:

Would you actually use it? If so, what for? 🤔

The long-term vision is a full SaaS platform with an API, SDK, payment rails, on- and off-ramps, and flexible escrow flows for both human and agentic transactions.

There are a huge number of potential applications:

✅ Auctions and marketplaces
✅ Freelancer and job platforms
✅Car, boat and property sales
✅Import and export
✅Insurance and claims
✅Conditional payments
✅Agent-to-agent transactions
✅Dispute resolution
✅High-value peer-to-peer transactions,
And plenty more

Rather than having every project build its own escrow infrastructure, I want this to be infrastructure they can simply integrate.

But I don’t want to spend a year building based purely on assumptions.

If you were building a product that needed escrow, what would you need from this?

What workflows would you have?
What payment methods?
What dispute scenarios?
What edge cases am I missing?

This is the point where I want to gather as much real-world feedback as possible and piece the requirements together before going too far down the build path.

[Pete @astroboysoup]

Finding investors feels a lot like dating. 😅

Day 15 at @draper_u included dinner with @Andytang from Draper Associates/Draper Dragon and plenty of conversations with investors.

Building the product is one skill. Finding the right people who believe in it is another.

As a developer, networking is definitely another muscle I need to build.

What part of fundraising pushed you furthest outside your comfort zone?

For me, it's now networking with investors.

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@NuvolaDigital Testflight? Means I need a link to access right?

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@TheOCcryptobro Where is the source?

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@BSCNews @Cardano @F_Gregaard Where is the source for this?

I don’t see any mentions from his or the Cardano Foundation account.

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@festering_rat @astroboysoup @trivolvetech If I could get coverage from the other side and the user experience that would be amazing.

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@CashAnvil I really hope you guys work out the next move for yourselves. If any team can do it I’m sure you guys can. Listening to @pb_anvil on a space today really highlighted the dedication and hard work from you guys.

It’s a big rough patch but you’ll make it through.

[Pete @astroboysoup]

🎙️@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.

[Pete @astroboysoup]

Our C4💥proposal explained.

I had a conversation with some dedicated Cardano peeps at a Meetup in London, hosted by @DiscoverCardano today, about the Cardano Content Creators Consortium proposal.

This is a recording & breakdown of the stream and presentation 👇

[Pete @astroboysoup]

The Cardano Summit proposal didn't make it through.

The one year that I did plan on going.

[Pete @astroboysoup]

I had a chat with @santicarmuega about the difficult developer experience on Cardano and the open-source layer they're building, called Tx3, which simplifies the complexities by introducing a simple web2-friendly API that any developer or AI Agent can interact with.

It enables intent-based interactions and protocol composability!

Very exciting stuff.

*This is a paid promotion

[Pete @astroboysoup]

I've updated all the documentation and references to my Cardano Node setup on my HP Elite Desktop.

Docs will step you through setting up Ubuntu, applying some security, installing and config the Cadano node, and using Mithril to sync.

Goes along with the vid and audio.

Enjoy.

[Pete @astroboysoup]

30,000+ people in Singapore for one crypto event.

@token2049 is one of those weeks where you realise how big this industry actually is outside the usual online bubbles.

@nateacton, VP of Global Marketing at @emurgo_io, gives a quick explanation of what the event is like on the ground, why it matters, and why so many builders, investors, and ecosystems show up.

Would Cardano benefit from a stronger presence at these major global events?

Also, Emurgo should do something about that DRep delegation nudge in Yoroi. I know SecondFi is the focus now and I hope some changes are made there too.

*Not a paid promotion

[Pete @astroboysoup]

Did anyone else manage to get in on potatoes before the price skyrocketed?

[Pete @astroboysoup]

Will we see Project Catalyst come back this year?

After reviewing so many of these Intersect budget requests, I really feel that many of them should be included in the Catalyst bundle rather than as TWs. That way, we have further guardrails on the requests. Yes, Catalyst isn't perfect, but it was heading in a good direction. Better every round.

Furthermore, the amount being requested atm is well above the NCL, which could mean no more withdrawals after this budgeting and request season, leaving no budget for Catalyst until mid 202.

I can't see DReps passing an increased limit for the NCL at the moment either.

Thoughts? Prayers?