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epiphany in the periphery

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

@rarecryptomemes @bobasfk Thats literally the job of emurgo.

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

@JaromirTesar @IOHK_Charles @VKyslik @carl_kassar @emurgo_io @Cardano_CF Talk to emurgo, you know, whose job it actually is to do these kind of things

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

Imagine Emurgo introducing a treasury withdrawal proposal to reimburse all the people loosing their ADA from their shitty Wallet app.

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

@NaVi_GaT0R until now the focus has been on tech.. we need to pivot to adoption and marketing until the next voting cycle. If its the same type of infra spending next time we are fucked imo.

[Jure @JureKaramarko]

A terrifying fact that needs to be repeated day after day, and one that should raise serious questions.

All the #Cardano FUDers and creators pushing negative narratives work with the same crypto PR and marketing agency, where Coin Bureau is a co-owner.

This is a fact, and everyone needs to know it.

They control the narrative. They have millions of followers. They all mock Cardano, ignore $ADA , push Cardano competitors, and ridicule Cardano.

And then, when someone thinks it is just a personal choice by individual creators, you realize they are all part of the same #crypto PR agency.

That is the moment you understand we have a serious huge problem.

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

@SimonDixonTwitt Cardano is ran through on-chain governance nowadays and charles does not have any direct power anymore.

Also just taking a break from twitter.

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

@RoverMcKenny @theCryptoHome they didnt.. it was all bots washtrading btw, check the decline in DAU

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

@0xDarrk @pathofexile havin the same shit shown to me tf

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

@WelfBrandolf So wait.. iog is dependant on treasury to finance them, but they are a for-profit company and keep their profits for themselves if they make any along the way?

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

Ask emurgo or cf for funding, they probably have some genesis ada laying around not being utilized.

[Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles]

一部の日本のdRepが私たちの研究提案に反対票を投じたことに、深い悲しみを覚えています。
もしこの提案が可決されなければ、カルダノ（Cardano）はその科学者たちを失い、私たちのラボは閉鎖に追い込まれるということを、日本のコミュニティ全体に再認識していただきたいと考えています。私たちは10年以上の歳月をかけて努力と成長を積み重ね、暗号資産分野において世界最強の研究グループを築き上げてきました。
一部の断片的な資金援助だけで、この成果をバラバラに崩壊させるわけにはいきません。私たちの科学者たちは、より確実性と敬意のある場所へと去ってしまうでしょう。
どうか、カルダノの研究アジェンダを支持するdRepへの委任をお願いいたします。

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

The political system is captured.

New blood comes along to keep you believing there is new hope.

They all work for the same FIC, and they deliver for lobbies.

There are no exceptions.

It’s systemic.

Stop engaging in the theatre.

It’s designed to distract you from real power and from unifying against it.

You vote with your money.

[Holger - Guarding our Vision! @HolgerCardano24]

Quote-reposting my earlier thread because I want to be clear about what was actually at stake, and why I think every ADA holder needs to understand it.

The short version:

Cardano's decentralized governance was built to prevent exactly the situation that just played out. It did not prevent it.

Navjit, as a DRep, asked a basic question:

Should DReps who hold paid Midnight Ambassador roles abstain on IO's treasury proposals due to conflict of interest?

That is not a personal attack.

That is the textbook governance question. Every recusal rule in every legitimate institution is built on it.

The response was not procedural.

It was a coordinated public campaign by parties with direct financial stakes in the proposals passing - @IOHK_Charles himself, IO employees, and IO-aligned contractors.

Within hours, IAG was down 32%.

Real holders lost real money.

These are not abstract token holders. They are families inside our own ecosystem. The same people who hold IAG also hold ADA.

The damage was inflicted on Cardano's own community.

What concerns me more than the attack itself is what it confirms about the structure.

Look at who sits where:

→ IO proposes the slate of treasury actions.

→ Midnight Foundation, an IO spin-out led by a former IO executive, sits on the Pentad coordinating the ecosystem response.

→ Anastasia Labs, run by Phil DiSarro (@phil_uplc), is named as a delivery partner in the proposals (Midgard).

Phil also holds an elected seat on the Constitutional Committee - the body that rules on the constitutionality of those same proposals - and on Intersect's Open Source Committee.

→ Blockfrost, acquired by IO, has its own ₳7.92M ask in the same slate.

Every check in the system is, in part, populated by the entity being checked.

That is not what CIP-1694 was designed to produce.

I am not asking anyone to take my word for any of this.

The proposal documents, election results, ownership chains, and independent reporting are all on the public record. Links at the end of this post.

Read them. Decide for yourself.

My concern is not personal. I am a DRep. My job is to vote on what is good for Cardano.

What I saw over the past weeks tells me this:

Asking the wrong question - even a question the Constitution explicitly anticipates - now carries a documented risk of losing your project's value, your community's savings, and your standing in the ecosystem.

If that is the operating rule, no project will raise the next question.

That is how a decentralized network stops being decentralized in practice while remaining decentralized on paper.

I voted NO on the IO proposals because I do not think the current leadership of IO can be trusted to wield this much treasury allocation without abusing the position.

To other DReps:
→ Look at the documented record.
→ Vote your own conscience.
→ Ask CC members to recuse where conflicts exist.
→ Redelegate if your current DRep won't engage with this honestly.

Cardano was built to be better than this.

Whether it is, is now up to all of us.

SOURCES:

The IO 2026 treasury slate being voted on:
https://t.co/Fy26jfT03f

2025 Constitutional Committee election (phil_uplc among the seven elected):
https://t.co/FGkhmv0hQA

Anastasia Labs / Midgard (Phil DiSarro's company, named as delivery partner in the IO slate; bio lists IOHK working group and Emurgo roles):
https://t.co/dkpmisRVUc

IOG's acquisition of Blockfrost (January 2024):
https://t.co/gCGEwzE8sN

Independent reporting on the 34% IAG crash following Charles's public campaign:
https://t.co/Ndv0wXVT1a

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

@cwpaulm Just gotta watch out for some people within the pentad that are trying to sabbotage deals because it conflicts with their own interests..

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

@NaVi_GaT0R Did they succeed with their sabotage?

[Sound Dobad @SoundDobad]

Imagine how online you have to be to get this

[Dr. Cuadrado, PharmD @CuadradoDeFi]

Charles Hoskinson, I’m going to say this directly.

From your $ADA mountain, it might feel like you can say whatever you want, whenever you want, without consequences. But deep down, you know something most people won’t tell you: you need us just as much as we need the ecosystem.

First and clear, I’m NOT part of the @IagonOfficial team. But watching this situation doesn’t inspire respect… it raises concern. Because while some of us are building, educating, and bringing real value into the ecosystem, you’re firing inward. And in any industry, that’s a dangerous signal.

Think about what it takes for a team to migrate from Ethereum to Cardano. Time. Capital. Risk. Conviction. They bet on this network. They bet on your vision. And what do they get in return? Public attacks from the very figure representing the project.

That doesn’t destroy Iagon. It erodes trust in leadership.

This is DeFi. No one is untouchable. Not even you.

We’re in the Voltaire era now. Decentralized governance. Distributed power. A community with a voice. And if markets have proven anything over time, it’s this: capital has no loyalty—only incentives.

If tomorrow the builders, the investors, and the liquidity drivers decide to look elsewhere… the impact won’t be symbolic. It will be real. Measurable. And yes, it will reach your net worth too.

Because at the end of the day, I haven’t seen any other blockchain founder publicly go after the very developers trying to grow their own ecosystem.

And there’s still time to correct course.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

🚨🇪🇺 The European Commission is about to steal your search history in one of the largest forced data grabs in the history of the open internet, and almost nobody is talking about it.

The scope is staggering:
🔴 Every query you type
🔴 Every voice and photo search
🔴 Every autocomplete you accept
🔴 Your language, your device
🔴 Your country pinned to a ~3km² grid
🔴 Every result you saw, every link you hovered
🔴 Every click and scroll
🔴 The full chronological order of your search sessions

Meaning the European Union now knows your:
🔴 Health symptoms
🔴 Pregnancy
🔴 Sexual orientation
🔴 Political views
🔴 Religious beliefs
🔴 Financial distress
🔴 Legal trouble
🔴 Addictions
🔴 Affairs

Under the proposed measures for DMA Article 6(11), Google would be ordered to ship the daily search behaviour of hundreds of millions of Europeans to multiple third parties through a daily API feed. Any approved "online search engine," AI chatbots included, would get five years of access.

The things people only ever type when they think no one is watching. All of it now scheduled to flow daily into an open-ended list of third parties scattered across the European Union.

Brussels promises "anonymisation." The reality is a thin technical veneer that has been broken in academic literature again and again for over a decade. Search behaviour is a fingerprint. Stripping a name does not change that.

Mass data leaks become inevitable. Every new beneficiary is a new attack surface, and every annual audit is a year of silent exposure between checks. The 2025 Discord vendor breach already showed how fast 70,000 government IDs can leak through a single weak link. Now imagine that link holding Europe's search history.

Surveillance without consent becomes the default. Hundreds of millions of EU citizens never agreed to have their queries packaged and shipped to companies they have never heard of. The legal fiction of "anonymisation" cannot manufacture consent that was never given.

Behavioural search data is a goldmine for phishing, blackmail, social engineering, and corporate espionage.

Foreign intelligence services get a back door without effort. They do not need to breach Google. They only need to compromise the weakest name on the beneficiary list. One insolvent startup. One compromised contractor. One approved entity quietly acquired by a hostile state.

In the name of "competition," the EU is about to manufacture a permanent, distributed, daily-refreshed copy of Europe's collective search history. A surveillance dataset Brussels itself would never approve if any other government tried to build it.

The public consultation closes Friday, May 1, 2026 at 23:59 CEST. The final binding decision lands July 27, 2026.

After that, the door does not close again.

Tag your MEPs! File a response! Make noise!

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

@phil_uplc @ILikeCardano Dont forget when you said that midgard will have functional zk proofs within 4 months after cardano gets its update in a space ~ 2years ago

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

@NaVi_GaT0R @decypher_xyz based <3

[syzygy | ₳Σ @medala1001]

@HolgerCardano24 @angrycryptoshow @IOHK_Charles Er soll mit dem ganzen geld was er hat ein personal coach anheuern der ihm ein paar dinger über achtsamkeit und refektion beibringt.

Sein message ist gut aber er macht genau das gegenteil die ganze zeit und das geht mir solangsam aufm keks ehrlicherweise.