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Very excited about decentralized storage and infrastructure and I can't wait to see many great projects enter the Cardano ecosystem

Cardano has already built a strong brand. It is known as a decentralized and secure blockchain, grounded in academic rigor. But brand awareness isn’t the bottleneck anymore. It is usage. The next marketing phase should focus on users, not just reputation. That means building products people actually want to use. We must ensure there’s enough liquidity. RWAs are one path forward, but they shouldn’t be the only focus. Cardano should also push into payments, DeFi, identity, and emerging areas like AI-integrated applications. Marketing shouldn’t just promote the chain. This mission is accomplished. Marketing should highlight the best products being built on top of it. Adoption follows utility. This was the case with the internet and now with AI. People don’t need to know the details of the technology, but they want to use useful services. Users don’t need to know what LLM is, but they want a ChatBot to answer their questions correctly. Polkadot invested tens of millions of dollars in marketing. It has a stronger brand than Ethereum, but users are still on the competing chain because there are battle-tested products and services. Cardano doesn't need to over-invest in marketing until we are sure that users will enthusiastically stay in our ecosystem once they join. We need an entity, perhaps a Marketing DAO, to lay out the strategy.

Cardano Must Be Everywhere There is a group of people, sitting behind their keyboards, arguing against Cardano’s participation at the world’s biggest conferences. Many of them have never attended these events themselves. They have not traveled, they have not experienced the global conference scene. Yet they claim to know better. Among those opposing this are individuals who previously voted in favor of distributing free ADA to numerous failed Cardano projects. They supported funding pump and dump ideas that were supposed to change the world. They never took responsibility for those poor decisions. Now, however, they stand against Cardano being represented on the largest global stage. So what does reality look like? I am currently in Paris at an incredible conference, surrounded by thousands of people from all over the world. And do you know where the center of attention is? The Cardano booth. It is a hub of activity. People from across the globe are gathering, shaking hands, communicating, building networks. There is capital, influence, and opportunity concentrated in one place. Thousands of attendees stop by, explore, connect, and initiate collaborations. Partnerships are being formed. Future plans are being discussed face to face, with a handshake and a smile. This kind of interaction cannot be replaced by any Zoom call or Google Meet. This is real, live engagement. I do not know the exact cost of being here. But I do know it is less than the amount of ADA that has been lost over the years on failed projects, with no accountability from those who supported them. Today, thousands of people are engaging with Cardano. They should be doing so tomorrow, in seven days, and in five months. We need more of this, all over the world.