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@LaPeitiiteADA Are you one of those pretending to be single, harvesting on your looks, with your husband, girlfriend or whatever in the background...An influencer? Prove me wrong if you can...

Boodieboodieboo: github.com/GS1973/Cardano…

#Cardano GUI based Cardano SPO Tools are made available fully open source and also the binaries are published. github.com/GS1973/Cardano…

@RickMcCracken Voting power in DRep room and SPO room are way too concentrated currently. And there is an overlap. Same entities in both rooms with a lot of voting power. About 24 DReps can reach 67% in the Drep room and about 61 operators (unique owners) can reach 51% in the SPO Room. Jippie!

Cardano peeps, the van Rossem hard fork has met all threshold approvals and will execute! Congratulations 🥳 Fully on-chain, decentralized governance, in action.

@ItsDave_ADA How many pools produced these blocks out of the number of registered pools if I may ask?

93.5% of all Cardano blocks produced over the last 24 hours came from nodes running a Van Rossem hard fork ready version. This is what that readiness looks like across the globe right now. Here comes the Cardano Van Rossem hard fork. global.cardano-visualisation.com/?view=van-ross…

@dori_coin Don't fund promises, fund results. Build at your own risk, ship it, then ask the treasury to reward what demonstrably worked. Let voters judge outcomes, not pitches. That's how we can end the treasury-withdrawal circus.

First of all, I'm a DRep, and I believe one of our primary responsibilities is to make sure the treasury is used as effectively as possible based on the current needs and priorities of the ecosystem. For me, the most important question is simple: Does a project's success create direct value and economic impact for the Cardano ecosystem? Since I've received similar comments from several people, I'd like to address them all in one place. 1. My conclusion actually comes from my experience across multiple ecosystems. I don't think this view contradicts my experience in Ethereum or other ecosystems. Quite the opposite. Working across different ecosystems has given me the perspective to evaluate projects beyond simply calling them "Cardano projects." The real question is whether its success translates into meaningful economic value for the Cardano ecosystem. Many people assume Strike v2 will naturally benefit Cardano, but after looking at how it's actually designed, I came to a different conclusion. Strike v2 executes trades off-chain, while Cardano is simply one of several supported chains. I believe my experience across different ecosystems is exactly why I was able to recognize that structural difference. 2. From Strike v2's perspective, Cardano is just one of many supported chains. Strike v1 absolutely delivered meaningful value to the Cardano ecosystem, and I fully acknowledge that. However, we're discussing Strike v2, not v1. In its current architecture, an Ethereum user using Strike is not becoming a Cardano user. They're simply using a multichain product. Strike supports Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, and other chains in essentially the same way. In other words, Cardano is just one of several supported networks, and users from other ecosystems have no reason to route through Cardano in order to use Strike. That's why I don't think it's appropriate to evaluate Strike v2 the same way we evaluated v1. 3. Hydra and Strike v2 are fundamentally different kinds of off-chain architectures. To be clear, I'm not arguing that off-chain execution is a problem. Hydra is also an off-chain solution. The difference is that Hydra extends Cardano's eUTxO model, with settlement and security ultimately tied back to Cardano L1. It is built around Cardano's architecture and strengthens the network itself. Strike's off-chain architecture is completely different. Its execution happens independently of Cardano and doesn't rely on Cardano's consensus, execution, or settlement model. Cardano is simply one of several supported chains. That's why I don't think it's appropriate to compare Hydra and Strike simply because they're both "off-chain." 4. I don't believe Strike's success automatically becomes Cardano's success. This has been my main point from the beginning. If Strike v2's trading volume grows, that volume isn't happening on the Cardano network, nor does it automatically create economic value for Cardano. I don't believe past success alone justifies treasury funding. Treasury decisions should be based on the value a proposal is expected to create for the ecosystem going forward. If you believe Strike v2 creates meaningful economic value for Cardano, then show it with concrete metrics—network activity, sustainable liquidity, fee generation, user retention, or other measurable benefits. So far, I haven't seen evidence that supports that conclusion. I'm not against off-chain architectures. I simply believe treasury funds should prioritize projects whose success is directly tied to creating value for the Cardano ecosystem. Based on Strike v2's current architecture, I don't believe it meets that standard. --- Finally, I think Strike's multichain strategy is a smart business decision. It gives the protocol access to more users, more liquidity, and more trading volume, while also making it possible to deliver a better user experience. However, that same strategy also weakens the connection between Strike's success and Cardano's success. In other words, it may be the right strategy for $STRIKE, but it also means that $STRIKE's success is no longer closely tied to $ADA's success. I understand this may be disappointing for some $STRIKE holders. But as a DRep, my priority is the long-term growth of the Cardano ecosystem, not the success of any individual project. Based on Strike v2's current architecture, I don't believe this proposal delivers meaningful value back to the Cardano ecosystem, and that's why I voted the way I did.

@JaromirTesar Don't fund promises, fund results. Build at your own risk, ship it, then ask the treasury to reward what demonstrably worked. Let voters judge outcomes, not pitches. That's how we can end the treasury-withdrawal circus.

@MoCapital_0x Wrong order. Don't fund promises, fund results. Build at your own risk, ship it, then ask the treasury to reward what demonstrably worked. Let voters judge outcomes, not pitches. That's how you end the treasury-withdrawal circus.

Honestly, y’all ruined Cardano. No good vibes remain, it’s just not fun anymore. It’s like reading political twitter. Nothing left but bitching about, and rallying behind,treasury withdrawals. Pathetic. 👎 No one just wants to just build anymore because the bar has been set. Fund it, or else we don’t. I don’t blame them. If they aren’t ring kissers, they don’t stand a chance. Dreps have for the most part become de facto FEs. Cooked.

@LaPetiteADA Neither...

Things that make me question the idea of ownership… • You buy a house, then pay taxes forever to keep it. • You earn money, then pay taxes for the privilege of earning it. • You invest, then pay taxes when it grows. • You die, then pay taxes for passing it on. • You own property, until you stop paying the tax on it. So, if someone can take it away when you stop paying… Do we truly own things, or just own the right to "use" them? 🤔

@JaromirTesar Voting power in DRep room and SPO room are way too concentrated currently. And there is an overlap. Same entities in both rooms with a lot of voting power. About 24 DReps can reach 67% in the Drep room and about 61 operators (unique owners) can reach 51% in the SPO Room.

@JaromirTesar Agree!

In my opinion, EMURGO did not have to leave Pentad because of the unfortunate SecondFi incident. Instead, they could have announced the sunsetting of the Yoroi/SecondFi wallet and retired as DRep. EMURGO + Yoroi together are the strongest DReps with huge voting power. Retiring Yoroi DRep would be a much more responsible approach from an accountability and decentralization perspective than giving up Pentad duties. Pentad is not transparent, so I cannot assess how EMURGO contributed. I expect the remaining Pentad members to comment on this. DReps approved the budget for Pentad, so the community deserves to know what the consequences of EMURGO leaving will be. I see no connection between Pentad duties and the SecondFi incident, so I don't really understand EMURGO's reaction. I am all the more curious about the next announcement. What is your opinion on this?

@cexplorer_io Your reporting on the hardfork is still not correct. SPO room -->

Currently, there are 27 Cardano governance actions up for voting. Most are treasury withdrawal actions, along with 2 info actions, a parameter change, and a hardfork initiation. DReps, and SPOs for the hardfork, don't forget to cast your vote.

@niroshan682 And SPO room first needs to reach 51%.

🚨 LATEST: Cardano’s Van Rossem (V11) hard fork has entered its final stage. The upgrade is now awaiting Constitutional Committee ratification and will introduce cheaper smart contracts and zero-knowledge-ready cryptography. 🚀 #ADA #Cardano

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@yutazzz @Figment_io @Official_Upbit @BITPointJP @eToro SPO Auto-Abstain is a No vote on hardfork initiations.

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@cardanosphere Why do you think that?

I think Cardano $ADA will be bigger than Bitcoin in the future.

@carterwinszn @coldtrz She probably never ever will buy an iPhone again.

@coldtrz That's me talking with her, I'm her boyfriend, we broke up when she sold it to buy an iPhone

She bought 900,000 Bitcoin in 2009, I wonder how she is doing today?