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@phil_uplc A better alternative would be to give half the money to 10 competent devs to fund defi build for 1 years, then give the other half of the budget to pay for marketing of those apps Call it a defi plan and track progress through a dashboard

Service plan is an extremely serious and high competence marketing firm. The problem is this proposal allocates the majority of funds for them to market supply chain traceability solutions on Cardano which is a market that doesn’t exist in a serious capacity and even if it did, we don’t have competitive tooling for it. This is like hiring a fighter jet to go fire missles into outer space. Yes, service plan will get eyes, views, clicks and user registrations, but if we pay them to market supply chain traceability we will get nothing. The focus should be on marketing the apps that currently exist on mainnet with real users, real economic activity and real KPIs for the chain, namely, our DeFi apps.

@USDMOfficial are you MiCA compliant? NBX seems to suggest you are

@Cryptofly777 Wrong, you want a high ada price + Leios + change parameters to make txs cheaper A higher ada price gives Cardano better standing vs other chains

If you want Cardano to be used for supply chains, digital IDs, and banking the unbanked… the original vision… you actually don’t want a $10 ADA. Just something to think about :)

#MidnightNetwork also represented on stage

Fred doing a good job pacing the floor at #ParisBlockchainWeek and talking about #Cardano

@Cointelegraph @adam3us

🔥 ADAM BACK: “People with a lot of influence and power have tried to change Bitcoin, and it’s basically failed. It’s more that Bitcoin changes you than you change Bitcoin.” @adam3us full interview dropping soon.

@zerohedge True that AI can write software, but it takes something more to write good software that users will use and trust

"Analyst sentiment toward software is described as near the worst we have seen, with existing analyst coverage shifting away from the sector decisively toward semiconductors and hardware" - UBS Matthew Mish

@CoinMarketCap That would be an ETF squared

UPDATE: 🏦 Goldman Sachs' proposed Bitcoin ETF won't hold any BTC directly, instead holding shares of spot Bitcoin ETFs and options on those ETFs.

@zerohedge The crowd is legible in hindsight. In real time, positioning data is noisy and always one week late. The trade is not recognising the setup. The trade is sizing it to survive being early.

When Everybody Is Short, Something Else Happens zerohedge.com/markets/when-e…

Public chains have been structurally incompatible with institutional flow because every trade is visible No bank executes a block on a transparent ledger. That has capped adoption, not throughput Midnight, Aztec, Polygon ZK, now XRPL. Every credible chain is building the same privacy layer because they are chasing the same customer: banks, asset managers, corporates.

NEW: The XRP Ledger integrates @Boundless_xyz, a zero-knowledge proving network, enabling financial institutions to transact privately on the public blockchain without exposing transaction size, counterparties or treasury positions.

Public chains have been structurally incompatible with institutional flow because every trade is visible No bank executes a block on a transparent ledger. That has capped adoption, not throughput Midnight, Aztec, Polygon ZK, now XRPL Every credible chain is building the same privacy layer because they are chasing the same customer: banks, asset managers, corporates.

⚡️ NEW: Boundless brings zero-knowledge proofs natively to XRP Ledger, enabling confidential finance on XRPL.

IMF forecasts are lagging and the "weakest since pandemic" line is built for headlines. The substantive question is the transmission mechanism Hormuz carries roughly 20% of global oil flows, and the second-order hit lands through shipping insurance premia and European gas None of that is priced yet The market is still trading peace-talk probability, not the tail

Iran war could slow global growth to weakest since pandemic, IMF warns ft.trib.al/6bapUQK

@cryptoquant_com @t0_god Rising leverage is consistent with a new cycle starting and also with a blow-off top. You only know which one it was after the liquidation

Growing Risk Appetite Among Investors “The emergence of leveraged positioning at this juncture suggests that the bear market may be drawing to a close, with the early stages of a new cycle potentially underway.” – By @t0_god

@coinbureau A voluntary pause lets Tehran avoid a direct test of the blockade while keeping the peace track alive, and it lets Washington declare the threat credible without firing a shot For oil, this is near-term de-escalation with a conditional tail

🚨UPDATE: IRAN SEEKS PROGRESS IN PEACE TALKS Iran is weighing a short-term halt to shipments through the Strait of Hormuz to avoid testing the reported US naval blockade and protect upcoming peace talks, per Bloomberg.

A 12 point drop in a single social indicator over 40 years is a large move. Housing access has collapsed for this cohort, partnership and family formation are delayed by nearly a decade, and the smartphone era coincides with the steepest part of the curve Income is higher, but the things income used to buy at that age are no longer available to buy

Young adult happiness is falling 📉 % of adults (22–35) who are “pretty” or “very” happy: 1980: 88%
2024: 76% Source: General Social Survey (1980–2024), Institute for Family Studies

@Cointelegraph @Houlgrave @WalletConnect @CertiK Good going @Cardano_CF - taking the stage is always good for visibility

🇫🇷 LONGITUDE PARIS: Why is regulatory clarity crucial for crypto adoption? Join industry leaders on April 15 for a timely discussion on what clear rules mean for the next phase of growth: • @Houlgrave, CEO @WalletConnect • Professor Ronghui Gu, Co-founder and CEO @CertiK • @F_Gregaard, CEO @Cardano_CF • Darko Hajdukovic, Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure @LSEGplc Co-hosted by Cointelegraph & @OKX.

Knowledge work output has never scaled linearly with hours. A four-day week does not unlock new productivity. It forces prioritisation, which cuts the low-value fifth day that was already there. What happens to deep work that needs sustained context? Compression helps shallow tasks and hurts the ones that benefit from slack

"Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing," per FORTUNE

@zerohedge Xi is framing China as the stable alternative to Western policy chaos

Xi Says "Global Order Crumbling Into Disarray" As Trump Turns Up Pressure Campaign On China zerohedge.com/geopolitical/x…

@Blixton0 @unusual_whales Attrition is what organisations actually do under cost pressure, not what I argued should happen. The dislocation is real and worth taking seriously.

@dynamic_io @unusual_whales How will they rehire when every property they own is burned to the ground? You think you're just gonna put millions of ppl out of work in a nation full of mentally unstable lunatics? Good luck. You're all dead, you just don't know it yet.

Jack Dorsey of Block has said that AI can make middle management obsolete, per FORTUNE.

@zerohedge Energy at +8.5% is doing almost all of the work, core goods barely moved, food declined. That is a commodity shock, not broad pipeline inflation. The Fed treats those differently. Watch whether energy holds the gain next month or fades.

PPI: Most of the March advance can be traced to prices for final demand energy, which jumped 8.5%. The index for final demand goods less foods and energy increased 0.2% In contrast, prices for final demand foods declined 0.3%