Robert Hever

Founder - blockchain, data, oracles, and trust infrastructure.

[Robert Hever @robhever]

@IOHK_Charles @StakeWithPride

[Robert Hever @robhever]

I love Cardano. I've built silently for five years. Always supported the ecosystem and backed Charles with Charli3.

I'm calling it as I see it: this post really wasn't about Taptools at all.

This post was about Charles defending himself from multiple complaints.

My takeaway:
He is right about one thing. It is up to the ecosystem to respond to builders all on the verge of shutting down. It is up to the ecosystem to recognize that native data infrastructure is collapsing first (Charli3, Orcfax, Taptools...) and will have ripple effects on the ecosystem. The pentad's actions don't solve this problem.

[Robert Hever @robhever]

This is a team that is bringing value and usage to the chain.

The focus should be on builders like this and not R&D.

[PALM Economy @palmeconomy]

What if Cardano became the backbone of global agriculture?

The 5am earth proposal could bring:

2M+ monthly active users
7–10M monthly transactions
Up to $1.2B in ecosystem contribution

All driven by real farmers, real commodities, and real agriculture workflows on Cardano.
This is what mainstream adoption looks like.

[Robert Hever @robhever]

🫡 From the @Oraclecharli3 team

The builder ecosystem is on edge.

Wake up.

While governance debates funding R&D to the same 5-10 well funded teams to deliver features and published papers that do not have a directly correlation with the chain's B2B2C market or bring revenue into the ecosystem, house-hold projects collapse.

No builders, No users, no chain.

[Robert Hever @robhever]

@DanielTetsuyama @adamKDean

[Robert Hever @robhever]

@NoFomo319 @Oraclecharli3 https://t.co/BXAxQalfNH
- most impacted by delays and market crash

https://t.co/RTtQIxPBMf
- hackathon run for under 5k

https://t.co/a1qfRRm5jj
- open source transition

We have others. Most teams in web3 do the opposite: go into the sunset without building.

[Robert Hever @robhever]

@NoFomo319 @Oraclecharli3 There’s no sunset. We delivered 80% of a project costing $476k usd with 105k usd in funding due to delays and market crashes. Thats a team fighting for five years.

The team is in discussions with strategic partners to support the transition so the infrastructure lives on.

[Robert Hever @robhever]

@astroboysoup @DeOpenSourceGuy @Oraclecharli3 https://t.co/K4FHWGGSrw

Free plan API
Block by block data weighted by pool size incorporates all major DEXs

Best non oracle price data available for Cardano, and it’s not even close

[Robert Hever @robhever]

Big shout to to Flux point on this project born from the charli3 hackathon!

A native oracle infrastructure is an ecosystem enabler. The unseen background service that is necessary for a layer 1 to thrive.

[Flux Point Studios @fluxpointstudio]

Cardano DeFi is finally getting insurance.

Aegis from Flux Point Studios is the first one on the chain.

Buy a policy and oracles trigger the payout automatically. Conditions met, money hits your wallet instantly from the pre-funded pool. No claims. No delays.

Most people play it safe in DeFi because one crash can wreck everything. Aegis cuts that fear. More capital should start flowing into liquidity pools and lending.

TVL stands to benefit big time.

Even better, Aegis sends a cut of protocol fees back to the Cardano treasury.

This kind of tool is exactly what the ecosystem needs right now.

Shield up if you’re active on Cardano.

Would you buy coverage for your LP positions or loans?

[Robert Hever @robhever]

Congratulations to the winners 👇

[Charli3 Oracles 📍Reliable, Secure, Trusted @Oraclecharli3]

Congratulations to the Hackathon winners!

Grand Prize Winner - 20,000 ADA
"Quantix" by solo entry @maxalexweber
QUANTIX is a B2B delivery settlement app for raw materials. Unlike regular RWA use cases, here it just tokenizes the needed facts about goods inventory, price, timestamp, signer set, and not the goods themselves. Conventional B2B delivery settlement runs on PDFs, EDI patchwork, and post-hoc reconciliation: ERP says one thing, the warehouse another, the price sheet is a day old, and disputes are settled by whoever has the better paperwork. QUANTIX replaces that with a single atomic Cardano transaction.

Github Repo: https://t.co/fHiGrqgEwJ
Demo Video: https://t.co/qIEC9DOl4V

Best DeFi & Integrations - 5,000 ADA
"Charli3 Perp" by team @AscendPerps
- Charli3 Perp is a minimal implementation of perpetual trading using Charli3 oracle data. It connects verified on-chain ADA/USD price feed to pipeline executed with Midnight for orders, matching, and settlement.

Best Real World Settlement - 5,000 ADA
"AEGIS Parametric Insurance" by team @fluxpointstudio
- Aegis is automated crypto insurance that pays out instantly when oracle-verified price conditions are met -- no claims process, no adjusters, no waiting. The oracle IS the claims adjuster.

Best Oracle Tooling - 5,000 ADA
"Charli3-js" by team @SyncAI_Network
- Typescript charli3 SDK
- Agent Integration pathway

Community Choice Award - 5,000 ADA
"Parametrix by team @lambdac_labs
- Parametric risk settlement on Cardano (hedge against real world risks like rainfall or measurable events)

Thank you very much to our sponsors for making this hackathon a reality:

@Cardano_CF @Catalyst_onX @DraperDragon

Big shout out to the @Oraclecharli3 team who volunteered their time to host the hackathon!

And lastly, thank you for the incredible support from the community to make this event a success!

[Robert Hever @robhever]

@DanielTetsuyama Congrats. Wife doing well?

[Robert Hever @robhever]

This was one of the largest and most engaging events in @Oraclecharli3 history!

Thank to the community for rallying and showing up!

[Charli3 Oracles 📍Reliable, Secure, Trusted @Oraclecharli3]

It’s a wrap!

The Charli3 Oracle Hackathon concluded with 15+ project submissions competing for 40,000 ADA and the opportunity to pitch @DraperDragon !

5 will be selected in the next week.

Public is welcome to join the closing ceremonies to see the finalists!

Our team was absolutely blown away with the quality of the projects. These weren’t teams simply consuming a datapoint onchain. They built complex and robust MVPs that include and are not limited to: Insurance contracts for onchain and off chain activity, price volatility protection solutions, prediction markets, midnight integrations, real world integrations, real time ERP integrations, onchain funding mechanisms, and ways to automate and simplify oracle integrations… projects enhanced our solution along the way with typescript SDK… multiple feeds per validator… and more!

🙌🙌🙌 thank you for the amazing project teams for killing it!

We will promote all the projects and make them available for public review because they are just that awesome.

Last but not least, big shout out to our sponsors and judges!

@orcfax @USDMOfficial @Cardano_CF @andamio_teams @Catalyst_onX

Also give Talha who organized and planned the entire hackathon some love ❤️

[Robert Hever @robhever]

@ApexFusion 👀

[Robert Hever @robhever]

👀🤔

[Tim Draper @TimDraper]

Draper Associates (@DraperVC) company just replicated every YC startup in the latest batch using agentic founders. Incredible.

[Robert Hever @robhever]

Want to make 20k ada?

All you need to do is integrate our pull oracle into a cool new build or existing solution to walk away with $!

[Charli3 Oracles 📍Reliable, Secure, Trusted @Oraclecharli3]

Oracle Hackathon
20,000+ ada in prizes
Apr 09-12 2026
Anyone welcome.

Why pay for a single point of failure data bridge when you can integrate an open source MIT pull oracle directly into your app... and get paid to do it.

Sign up here (Space limited):
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#cardano

[Robert Hever @robhever]

@PabloAntonioBG @Oraclecharli3 Data infrastructure breaks when it scales. No oracle infra then high risk at scale. High risk at scale means no whales. No whales means no scaling. No scaling means no need for oracles.

It’s not a business or technical competency problem.

[Robert Hever @robhever]

Data infrastructure breaks under volume. Oracles allow scaling. No oracles. Too risky to bring funds on. No whales. No scaling. No need for oracles.

See the problem?

Charli3 launched an oracle on Radix years ago. The founding entities sought us out and paid to have it built to support where they wanted to be. We shut down long ago on there for other reasons… but that’s how oracles are generally treated. Like pyth got treated.

[Robert Hever @robhever]

@AndrewJEaddy @thenarrator Can you elaborate on “existing at the enterprise level”?

[Robert Hever @robhever]

Think you can build a better oracle? Show off your skills and win 20,000 ADA in prizes.

Build with our open source pull oracle.
https://t.co/UVywftsJXG

[Charli3 Oracles 📍Reliable, Secure, Trusted @Oraclecharli3]

Oracle Hackathon
20,000+ ada in prizes
Apr 09-12 2026
Anyone welcome.

Why pay for a single point of failure data bridge when you can integrate an open source MIT pull oracle directly into your app... and get paid to do it.

Sign up here (Space limited):
https://t.co/cxjqVyjJ95

#cardano

[Robert Hever @robhever]

@ecatxvc @Indigo_protocol 💪 4 years in a crypto winter too - the better question is how did you keep all your hair?