mortatz

CNFT Enthusiast

@wayupio emotional support 🚀

[Sssebi🦁 @Sssebi]

To all those spreading lies and FUD about Cardano.

These are all DeFi projects on Cardano and they are all performing extremely well.

Please do some research before spreading lies🫡

[$cash @CashAnvil]

This was a fun exercise I did in response to a comment this morning, thought I'd share. There are many people just like me in Cardano, with a list like this, who are on the verge of having to close up shop due to a lack of opportunity. I say opportunity, not funding, because that's exactly what it is. There is no one new coming to build here. The leads have all dried up internally. The customers as well. Regardless, we should be working harder to keep the ecosystem layer alive. I constantly hear that community is our strongest asset but we are seemingly ok with killing off our builder layer which directly interacts with them, and where most of our builders came from. I'm not sitting here saying let's subsidize builders but can we get back to being a land of opportunity? Where teams came to build?

Anyways, end rant, here's my response:

"What value do you bring to Cardano? Do you build? Add functional expertise? Genuine question."

I bought ada in 2020 and held til now, that should be enough to have a public opinion. One can only infer that this is the thought process and intent of your reply. But, I’ll play.

I bring value to Cardano in a multitude of ways:
-I bought ADA with USD and Savings
-I own 3,643 Cardano NFTs
-I own 136 different Cardano Fungible Tokens
-I have done over 500,000 personal Cardano transactions and used the chain daily since joining
-Supported hundreds of projects financially
-I have 15,167 X Followers, who I continually post about Cardano related content to
-Attended RareEvo every year since inception, Poker Champion 2025
-I signed the first Cardano constitution and helped draft it
-I am a DRep
-I was a voting member on the first iteration of the intersect product committee
-I've owned my own Cardano based development company, since 2021
-Over 300 Cardano clients served (Minting/Staking/Custom dApps)
-Over 1 million NFTs minted, 200 FTs registered
-Open Source Wallet Connector (Weld)
-Open Source Crosschain Wallet Connector (Weld 2.0) -Open Source Metadata Validator
-CF North American Enterprise Vendor
-Built a free to use API for multiple Cardano core functions
-Built the current #1 NFT Marketplace
-Built a semi custodial wallet (Hodei)

I hope this helps, and I’m sure I forgot some stuff. I am no cracked out dev but I add value to Cardano in many different ways.

[$cash @CashAnvil]

I AM STILL AND WILL ALWAYS BE CARDANO STRONG TIL THEY KICK ME OUT

[kickflips @elcapitankick]

CNFTs have never been cheaper $ or ₳

Support Cardano. Buy a CNFT. PFP it.

It’s a simple, cost-effective way to support an ecosystem.

Bring back the fun.

[kickflips @elcapitankick]

One of the things I appreciate about Cash and Anvil … they have worked hard to be fiscally responsible while building Wayup.

Slow growth may be boring but it is sustainable.

[kickflips @elcapitankick]

Two solid reasons to collect Funplastics:

1) 10,000 digital collectibles with good digital/web3 provenance (see @zigor )

-or-

2) 2,000 5-packs with steady utility (see @wayupio )

Which does it for you?

[$cash @CashAnvil]

The truth hurts sometimes...

Reality is teams/projects in blockchain, not just Cardano, weren't forced to run lean enough.

ICOs, Early Raises, and Grants caused companies to scale irresponsibly, miss-manage capital, and have no path towards sustainable revenue.

Not pointing my fingers at anyone specifically but it's a clear issue I have seen across many companies, and blockchains.

I'm not saying I am some kind of business guru or prophet but I am saying that I have lived the reality of what businesses are facing for over 2 years now. We had to make cuts, sacrifice salaries, rebalance infrastructure, and most importantly, hunt our own food. We survived because we made hard decisions and built real revenue off of services and tools.

Outside of blockchain, you constantly hear stories about the entrepreneur who sacrifices everything for their dream. I mean, just go watch an episode of Shark Tank. I tried to embody this to give our team the chance to scale and grow. Gave up my salary, my co founder did as well. We only spent money the last 3 years outside of payroll on RareEvo. I'm no hero for that, I just figured that was the reality of running a business and everyone else in the space was dealing with similar. Boy was I wrong lol. Not saying you have to necessarily struggle to know success, but hitting rock bottom and having to really grind it out changes the way you operate.

You won't see me committing to doing a thousand new features for Wayup. It's not realistic in this market with the revenue that the platform produces. We ran Wayup at a net loss of $1800 a month for almost 2 years to get here. Business requires balance and thankfully the work we were doing at Anvil helped us keep it alive for so long. When the revenue allows for us to hire a part/full time dev, the features will start shipping. Want the features faster? Fundraise it. That's what real business do, but they typically start with a revenue producing vehicle.

Maybe this is the exodus we are currently seeing in our space. Maybe I'm wrong. Without knowing companies full financials, I can only imagine this to be why. And honestly, I can't blame someone for wanting to build and have a salary. If you want talent, eventually it has to have opportunity. That's what made Cardano so great, the idea of opportunity, and the reality of it. The sinking reality is that opportunity is leaving and being found elsewhere.

There's one thing I know for sure. Cardano itself should be focused on revenue. Everyone, and the treasury itself, should be working towards more than transactional volume to the treasury, this is how we win. Loans, Rev-shares, direct shares, any means necessary we need to start treating Cardano as a whole as a business.

Charles gave me a great idea earlier in an X space. If the research budget is $5mil in the hole, and we have the best researchers in blockchain, why don't we take advantage of that and start doing research for other chains? Call me crazy but seems like an actual opportunity because I do believe we have great researches and I do not want to see them leave. Cardano treasury could fund the Cardano based research, and subsidize pricing to be competitive to other chains. Then there could be a potential rev share opportunity to rebalance the treasury.

These are the type of initiatives I think people would really rally behind and make Cardano more valuable. It would set a really good public image that people are willing to work with Cardano and actually do respect our research driven approach.

Regardless of what happens, if we don't start leaning out the end result will be inevitable. I look forward to the responses here and have enjoyed the course of many conversations over the past few days.

Call me a shill, call me whatever you want but if you agree with me delegate. I'm making it a point to get more delegation and push my vision of Cardano.

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[Maz @Maz628037437162]

@IOHK_Charles the global elite will never let a genuinely beneficial, life-changing technology be freely used by ordinary people if they can’t control it. That’s why Cardano continues to be suppressed.

[kickflips @elcapitankick]

Funplastics being subjected to the law of supply and demand on @wayupio

Here is a glimpse of demand:

[kickflips @elcapitankick]

Franken-listings and franken-offers are one of the best things that ever happened to the CNFT space.

Thank you @wayupio

[$cash @CashAnvil]

Thank you to my new delegators🫡

I promise to keep being open with my opinions and work towards unity of the ecosystem.

We all need to lower the walls a bit and be more open to hearing out our peers.

Your ADA is your vote - align with someone who aligns with you and isn't afraid to ask the hard questions in a constructive manner.

We only get one treasury, let's spend it and grow Cardano responsibly. Times are tight, spending needs to be thoroughly justified, and the results need to directly impact the ability for Cardano to grow. Teams need to focus and pick their lane, and globally Cardano needs a clear path forward. We can and will get there.

If you agree, consider delegating to me. I am as locked in as I have ever been and will always listen to my constituents!

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[Leader Alpha @LeaderAlphaNews]

🚨 Charles just dropped a RAW confession that’s hitting HARD...

He openly admits his biggest life decisions COST him EVERYTHING in his personal relationships, friendships destroyed, family strained, love life in ruins But here’s the twist that’s blowing minds:

He says he’d do it ALL over again... because solving humanity’s BIGGEST problems is worth more than ANY personal sacrifice.

Would YOU trade your closest relationships for the chance to change the world?

Be honest in the replies (no judgment) $Ada #Cardano

[TapTools @TapTools]

JUST IN: Google search interest for Cardano $ADA is rapidly expanding.

Searches for terms like:
• “$ada price”
• “$ada twitter”
• “$ada cardano”
• “cardano”

are all trending sharply higher on Google Trends. Growing retail attention is returning to the ecosystem.

[TapTools @TapTools]

JPG Store is officially offline. Please move over to WayUp.

[Wayup @wayupio]

Amazing work by the TapTools team to get Wayup data supported so quickly!

This should show a nice increase in CNFT volume and sales data that was not previously being captured.

A new era in CNFTs is here and we are happy to serve the community together!

[Wayup @wayupio]

Good Morning!

As you all know, Wayup is now the main marketplace of Cardano!

We look forward to continuing to serve the community and be the best place to buy/sell/trade NFTs and RWAs.

Some common questions we are seeing in our Discord and on X:

-JPG.store ui is down, what do I do?!?
Simply go to your user profile, hit "Migrate All" and watch the magic happen. This will migrate all jpg listings regardless of UI. Additionally, you can use Wayup for all the same actions and more!

-My asset is showing as a locked item and not working?
This one is typically just an issue of where you are viewing the NFTs in your profile. Try the "Listings" tab of your profile. If the problem persists, check that it is not locked in an old contract, staking, or something similar.

-Do i need to make an account?
Nope! You can access Wayup without an account. However, we recommend making one to take advantage of the in platform features like trading and messaging.

Beyond that we have only seen massive support for us and our platform. We are extremely grateful for all of your support.

If you run into issues, join our Discord and open a ticket, we are here to serve you!

As always, let's go Wayup!

[Omniblade ⭕️✨ @omni_ada]

End of an era indeed.
@wayupio taking over the torch.

[kickflips @elcapitankick]

Cardano NFTs going wayup

[Wayup @wayupio]

We just had our highest migration day! Coincidence? or is Pete just like that?!

That also marks our highest listings ever at 14,616 listed assets!!

This represents a 3302% increase in Native Wayup Listings in a 1 month period.

We are very grateful for all of our supporters and look forward to continued growth!

Hit us up in Discord with any issues migrating!

[Pete | Beware of Scammers @astroboysoup]

We have a few days left to delist NFTs and migrate from @jpgstore before it shuts down on the 23rd of May.

In this tutorial, I step through the process of migrating from JPGStore to @wayupio.

It is a lot easier than I thought, and you can do it after JPGStore closes.

Just note that if there are issues, you may not be able to fix them after the closure date. So it's still a good idea to progress as soon as possible in case there are problems.

Good luck.

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