whOmp 🇦🇺

[Wendy O @CryptoWendyO]

Cardano has cracked the code.

No other project in crypto is doing what they’re doing.

WE ARE SO BACK! (You should watch my full interview with @IOHK_Charles) https://t.co/HBtV52xlzs

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🇨🇭ADOPTION: 137 SPAR STORES IN SWITZERLAND NOW ACCEPT CARDANO

137 SPAR supermarkets now accept $ADA via DFX .swiss Open Crypto Pay, reducing payment processing fees by up to two-thirds.

[Patrick Tobler @Padierfind]

Good Morning Cardano

Serviceplan Group, the marketing agency who also works for companies like BMW, Netflix, Amazon, etc. has just submitted an official Marketing proposal for the Intersect Budget process.

After 1.5 years of building Masumi & becoming closer & closer to Cardano, they've decided that they want to become Cardanos official Marketing partner.

Some disclaimers first:

1) I am an unpaid advisor to this proposal. Yes, unpaid.

I do not get any money if it wins but I've decided to give some of my time & help Serviceplan with connections into the ecosystem because I believe that professional marketing like this is very much needed in Cardano.

2) This is a joint proposal coming from multiple different agencies from inside the Serviceplan Group. Serviceplan has around 6000+ employees.

The team working on this is a different team than the one working on Masumi.

3) This proposal is not a grant or some speculative investment or so. It's an actual proposal for very specific work package that will be carried out. It's the first time SP has ever done "public pitch" like this, normally they're used to pitching in front of marketing departments of large enterprises. 6 months of work went into drafting this proposal. So please be nice, even when you have criticism. :)

4) Serviceplan is the only entity that I know of from outside of Cardano that has invested a Multi-Million dollar amount into Cardano development in recent years. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say the exact number but let's just say this: If they win this proposal + the Catalyst proposals they've received for Masumi, it will still be less than what they've invested into Cardano so far.

That alone should be reason to take a very serious look at this.

Now about the proposal itself:

The goal of this proposal is to broadly "reposition" Cardano as the Blockchain for serious business.

It's specially built so it captures Leads & distributes them into the ecosystem.

The main pillars that the proposal focuses on are 1) DeFi and 2) Supply Chain.

Now I highly recommend everyone for read through the full proposal, I will put the link to the PDF into the comments.

[FluidTokens @FluidTokens]

“You are not bullish enough on Bitcoin and Cardano”

Soon 🟠 ↔ 🔵

[CoinSpot @coinspot]

🗞️ Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson unveiled a new privacy-enabling blockchain called Midnight, ending years of development.

The launch of Midnight represents a major expansion of Cardano's ecosystem and addresses growing demand for privacy-focused financial infrastructure on blockchains.

Midnight is listed on CoinSpot.

[Phillip Pon @phillip_pon]

An update on our engagement with @Mastercard.

While Cardano was not included in the initial cohort of 85 launch partners, @emurgo_io has been actively engaging with their APAC team to change that and ensure our ecosystem is represented.

Following a leadership transition at Mastercard APAC —where our primary contact moved to EY — we have successfully connected with his successors. They were excited to speak with us and I am pleased to share we are now in the Qualification Stage for the Global Crypto Partner Program.

With the continued support of the Cardano community, I am confident in a positive outcome.

This important:
Please like and share to show @Mastercard the strength of our ecosystem. Mastercard is a global firm.. we need to show them that our inclusion into their Partner Program will make a difference to them. Surely this is an initiative the entire Cardano ecosystem can support! #cardano86

Let's go!!!

#cardano #mastercard @Cardano_CF @Cardano @IOGroup @midnightfdn

[KtorZ @_KtorZ_]

Not sure why I am picking on this one, but that's a good opportunity to give a fair shot at: what has @Cardano_CF done in the past 12 months (give or take)?

So, in no particular order:

*inhale*

- Organised the Cardano Summit 2025 in Berlin attended by ~1000 Cardano enthusiasts (and even more online).
- Timely voted on every single governance proposals with clear rationale.
- Sponsored the third Buidler Fest in Buenos Aires, with 10 builders from CF attending, 5 of which gave talks or organized discussions.
- Continued improving and providing free access to a governance voting tool (https://t.co/j0vDrRwfAA) for all DReps and CC members alike.
- Revamped, restructured and completed the developers portal (https://t.co/73R2vCenxN) to reduce barrier to entry for newcomers.
- Assisted IOG and SPOs during the November incident, providing network monitoring data and tools instrumental to the recovery.
- Sponsored and facilitated access to Antithesis (https://t.co/wI10VwLQmu) an advanced platform for system-wide property-based testing.
- Minted $1,000,000 USDA to support DeFi liquidity on Cardano.
- Organised and hosted ~25 roundtables (https://t.co/VzElHw1A19) and ~4 SPO roundtables (https://t.co/00NKoCZuta) with community members to talk and debate about Cardano's burning topics.
- Released the Veridian identity wallet into Android and iOS app stores.
- Conducted the 4th annual Cardano Developer Ecosystem Survey (https://t.co/8gdYGuoOyb) compiling useful insights from a large sample of Cardano developers.
- Developed and curated Cardano Events (https://t.co/rhfXvAMulB) to make Cardano events more easily discoverable.
- Actively participated in most Intersect committees, following community elections, such as: the Intersect Steering Committee, the Civics Committee, the Product Committee, the Technical Steering Committee, the Open Source Committee, the Budget Committee and the Growth and Marketing Committee.
- Launched the Cardano Venture Hub (https://t.co/VI3MymtpLE), with the first cohort going through an acceleration program *right now*.
- Worked with DFX & BrickTowers to integrate ADA as a payment solution (https://t.co/VzRitQ7Icx) in supermarket PoS.
- Developed and deployed the necessary off-chain infrastructure for programmable tokens (CIP-113) while contributing to evolution of the underlying sub-standards (https://t.co/RSNdGs2XcE).
- Continued the work on the IBC bridge (https://t.co/9ckCyzZl9T) to connect Cardano to the Cosmos ecosystem (and to any IBC-compatible chain really).
- Maintained and further developed a variety of Open Source projects, such as (but not limited to): Aiken, Yaci (store and devkit), Ogmios, Kupo, cardano-wallet, cardano-addresses, elm-cardano, Originate, Rosetta,
- Published 'I Can Aiken' book on https://t.co/m4ILZ10gt4 (https://t.co/bdVx2caJkg), a complete/end-to-end course on Aiken.
- Recorded various episodes of the 'Let's Talk Cardano' podcast (https://t.co/Ls9QNL5GWb).
- Published 9 case studies (https://t.co/oEIn82H4vg) of businesses integrating with Cardano.
- Answered and defended Cardano to various regulators and institutions such as the SEC Crypto Task Force, the European Data Protection Board or the Financial Conduct Authority on the regulation of crypto-asset activities.
- Initiated and supported the development of Konduit: an open source, trustless L2 protocol that connects Cardano and the Bitcoin Lightning network. (https://t.co/bNaIjsXbE7)
- Attended crypto and blockchain events all along the year to ensure Cardano presence everywhere: Rare Evo, Paris Blockchain Week, Women-in-Tech summit, Azteca 2025, Blockchain Rio, Buidler Fest 2026, JCon, Digital Assets Forum, Teamz summit, ...
- Supported the development of Amaru, an alternative Cardano node, by allocating 2 engineers to the project, improving Cardano's resilience and decentralisation.
- Published a full financial report of the foundation's accounting directly on Cardano, while providing the tool and methodology to do so entirely as open source (https://t.co/6OILJWHSaa)
- Assisted hundreds of exchanges in their Cardano onboarding or upgrades, especially when the network gets a little bumpy.
- Kept running Cardano bootstrapping relays still (unfortunately) necessary to ensure Cardano's dynamic availability until the complete roll-out of Ouroboros Genesis.
- Welcomed and on-boarded various Cardano ambassadors to the ambassador program.
- Worked alongside IOG, EMURGO, Intersect and the Midnight Foundation as *the Pentad* to integrate top industry actors with the Cardano ecosystem such as: USDCx, Pyth or Layer 0.
- Exposed ten of thousands of blockchain enthusiasts to Cardano through the Binance Academy course on fundamentals (https://t.co/HSuDde5EbM)
- Helped hundred of builders get started or unstuck on Cardano through the various community channels (X, discord, Github, Reddit, ...)
- Contributed and helped getting to "last check" three important CIPs such as CIP-0113 (Programmable token-like assets), CIP-0170 (KERI-backed metadata attestations) or CIP-0171 (On-chain Smart Contract Bytecode Verification).

And... I'll stop here knowing very well I am forgetting many things (my apologies to the efforts I forgot), there's just too much.

[CoinSpot @coinspot]

We have listed Midnight (NIGHT)!

Repost for the chance to win $100 of NIGHT 💸

https://t.co/ma7xx4E5KW

Happy Trading 🚀

*Must have a verified CoinSpot account.

[FluidTokens @FluidTokens]

We just performed the first Atomic Swap between Cardano and Bitcoin in Mainnet.

This means native BTC was traded for native ADA.

0.0001 $BTC swapped for 50 $ADA

Bitcoin is on Cardano 🧡 ↔ 💙

[Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles]

This is one of the largest deals we've ever done and could bring hundreds of millions to billions of TVL to the Midnight ecosystem. I'm extremely proud of @F_ZK_Now and his team at the @midnightfdn for the hard work they put into the negotiations with Monument.

Midnight is the home of Web 2.5 ventures.

[Luca | Knackfisch @Knackfish]

Another update on our game powered by Cardano because we just hit a new daily player record, AGAIN:

- 700 daily players
- 1000 players over 3 days
- Over 2000 total players
- 70-80% of players are new to Cardano
- Players create Cardano wallets to buy Orbs/NFTs for our game
- Same amount of new account over the last month compared to 3 years before

We keep onboarding 🫡🤝

[Luca | Knackfisch @Knackfish]

Can't really put it into words, but I feel deeply honored that we got the chance to take over SpaceBudz.

For me personally, SpaceBudz always had a special role! Looking forward to this journey 🚀

[Kraken @krakenfx]

Coming soon on Kraken 🌙

$NIGHT is the unshielded native, utility and governance token of @MidnightNtwrk, built to bring rational privacy to Web3.

Trading starts Dec 9 at 10AM UTC.

Eligible Glacier Drop recipients will see NIGHT credited to their Kraken accounts.

Deposit now → https://t.co/xTQj56JgUB

[Brave @brave]

Big news: Cardano is now fully integrated into the Brave browser! 🎉

You can manage assets, execute transactions and participate in governance in the browser without an extension. Just use Brave's built-in wallet!

[Stake with Pride 🌈 Midnight + Cardano @StakeWithPride]

Senior Engineering Director at Google Cloud @jmtromans shares how selective disclosure and privacy is important for web3 and the plans to run Midnight validators. #Cardano @IOHK_Charles

[NEAR Intents @near_intents]

It's great to be working with Cardano and the legendary @IOHK_Charles 🤝

Welcome to NEAR Intents, ADA!

[Iagon ⛏️ @IagonOfficial]

We don’t buy influence, we build it.

Iagon × #Cardano is a grassroots movement: storage, compute and a community that ships.

@Gate , @kucoincom, @bitgetglobal , @cryptocom , @krakenfx, @BingXOfficial : come see what conviction looks like.

Retweet if you’re part of it. 🧑‍🚀💽

[Altcoin Daily @AltcoinDaily]

We’ve said it before. We’ll say it again.

Cardano

[whOmp 🇦🇺 @whompada]

@BradKlibansky Amazing draft, though has a long way to go to catch 2001's Ablett, Judd, Hodge, Bartel, Swan, Mitchell, Montagna, Stevie J, Dal Santo, Lake, Matt Boyd, James Kelly and more.
21 flags, 6 Brownlows, 5 norms.

[Erik @EriksNFTArt]

I’ll be real I faded Cardano for years.
Too slow, too academic, too boring.

But lately? I’ve been deep diving, and I was WRONG.

This ecosystem is starting to remind me of 2020 DeFi on ETH…
#Cardano #Flow @flowdefi @phillerino
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