Stephen - Be₳D₳ Pool | ₳mbassador

Due to the stake pool retirement announcement of @BraveHeartStak3, we'll be replacing them with ADACT @ada_capital ADACT was next in line based on the community Diffusion vote. Thank you to BRAVE for contributing to the Diffusion Staking Basket and Cardano blockchain security!

@HephyPool @invalid_eutxo Congrats!

Oh wow. This was a nice surprise to wake up to 👀 If stake stays the same (or higher) until epochs end today it will be the first time in the pools 4 year history that it will register an active stake >₳1M 🤞🏻🙏🏻 Thanks for supporting a small independent pool 🤝 #Cardano

After around 4 months of back and forth with Pentad & Intersect. Pentad steering committee decided not to reimburse Iagon for the Fireblocks integration fee. @IntersectMBO recommend it to be approved but Pentad committee decided against. This integration is a necessary stop-gap solution in order to provide institutional custody solutions for Cardano. If it goes well, this will lead to native integration. This is the solution that was recommend by Fireblocks to show ARR. We also made steps early on to contact a host of dApps, market makers, capital funds, that could benefit from this solution to see what type of features they would like to see within the integration. We even invited CF's Global Head of Technical Integrations @michaeldotada to make sure the features were in alignment with the goals. Michiel also attended every meeting leading up to the commercial agreement with Fireblocks. This is Cardano wide integration, helps every CNT and at the same time provides $ADA native staking and voting features. It is worth noting that FB wanted to work with us on this stop-gap integration and not the pentad members. They had the option of working with others and choose not to. Prior to pentad formalizing, we were assured by many of their members that they would have no objection to this reimbursement. Our plan was to go to the treasury prior to their pentad proposal being proposed within the Cardano treasury. We waited because of these verbal assurances. @IagonOfficial will still continue this integration for Cardano and pay for the full fee. We don't plan to go to the treasury for a refund. We hope you like what we deliver. Excited for the end result!

We've been informed by GAIA stake pool that they're retiring. We'd like to sincerely thank GAIA for their participation and contribution to the Diffusion Staking Basket as one of the 5 small SPOs. As a consequence, GAIA will be substituted by @BrockCardano BROCK pool. 👇

USDCx on @Cardano, a USDC-backed stablecoin with seamless access to crosschain USDC liquidity, is now available via Circle xReserve. With USDCx, enterprises and end users can power payments, lending, trading, borrowing, liquidity provision, and more using a highly liquid stablecoin. Supported at launch by Cardano DeFi apps @liqwidfinance, @MinswapDEX, and @SundaeSwap. Key benefits: ✅USDCx is 1:1 backed by USDC held in xReserve ✅Fully interoperable with USDC across supported chains ✅Trust minimized with no third-party bridges required **For the first 10 days, IOG will be covering all costs for bridging USDC to USDCx on Cardano, helping early adopters get started without fees or friction.** Learn more: circle.com/blog/usdcx-on-…

Word on the blockchain is that some serious USDCx minting is afoot at the moment! Over 10 million USDCx from @circle has reportedly been minted on Cardano so far. Will there be more to come? Who's minting it? Can't wait to find out!

With @MidnightNtwrk launching in about a month and a half, expect more and more launch partners to be announced! Here are the current announced Midnight validators that will be supporting the network at launch. Not a bad group of validators, I'd say! 😀

During this weeks X Space, we'll be joined by Cardano project Plastiks. They have brought trustworthy recycling and recovery data on-chain, verified against international standards. Hear all about it by joining us February 18th at 16h UTC.

@atriumlab It was a great Space with lots of Alpha!

We had a great X Space yesterday with Phil, filled with lots of USDCx integration alpha! Phil mentioned USDCx coming "very very very soon!", which has now been announced to be in about 2 weeks! 😁 Check out the rest of the great info in the Space! x.com/atriumlab/stat…

@atriumlab great space!

Join us today for our next X Space! We'll be joined by Phil from Anastasia Labs. We'll be catching up with the development around Midgard, USDCx and maybe some governance updates, time permitted. Today, Febr. 11th at 16h UTC. Link 👇

Attention SPOs and dReps 🚨 Have you voted already on the active parameter change governance action? Voting ends at the end of this epoch, in just a few days. This is one of the few governance topics that SPOs also need to participate in, hoping for a good SPO turnout! 🫶

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The Diffusion Staking Basket is so close to 3M ADA in TVL! Who's going to push us over?? If you do, you'll be earning additional NIGHT and ATMA, on top of your ADA staking rewards!

@bigpey I'm still in Santa Mode, and loving it!

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@atriumlab So much fun over at Atrium!

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@atriumlab Awesome! I'm staking with Diffusion, and stacking NIGHT and ATMA!

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