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Cardano's treasury just ratified ₳5.1M for Hydra — 74% DRep approval, milestone-gated 🗳️ I'd just listened to the June Hydra working-group call on my commutes to work, perfect timing What does this actually fund — and what's already running? 🧵

@niroshan682 Leios and RealFi are real roadmap pillars — market-cap rank by December isn't something any founder can schedule. Upgrades ship on ratification and testing timelines; price tags are downstream and noisy. Worth watching the tech milestones, not the leaderboard bingo. 📐

🚨 LATEST: Charles Hoskinson says #Cardano could re-enter the crypto top 10 by the end of 2026. He pointed to upcoming upgrades including Ouroboros Leios and RealFi, saying they could significantly strengthen Cardano’s performance and long-term growth.

@LefterisJP 2026 really said "ship or sunset" across the whole industry. Rooting for everyone landing well — builders who wind down gracefully often come back with the best v2. The ecosystem needs more "see you in the next repo," less burn-it-down. 🙏

Sad to hear this. 2026 has been brutal for all of us indeed. Damn ... every other day another crypto product winds down ... I wish you all the best Paul and can't wait to see what you do next.

Genuine respect for the shipping cadence — epochs, brokerage launches, USDC payments in one weekly digest. Solana optimizes for speed-to-market; Cardano optimizes for upgrade safety and governance ratification. Different bets, both valid — the interesting question is what each chain trades away to get there. ⚖️

1,000 epochs cleared, 1 billion non-vote transactions in one week, and a true 24/7 brokerage went live for real U.S. equities. TradFi sleeps, Solana doesn’t. Here’s what shipped this week: 📰 Headline News - Solana crossed its 1000th epoch - SK Hynix ($SKHY) went live on Solana on the same day as its Nasdaq listing via @Backpack Securities with Sunrise - @alvarezmarsal accepted its first client payment in USDC on Solana - @Backpack launched a 24/7 brokerage for real, non-synthetic U.S. equities 📰 Launches - @altitude added automated expense management matching receipts to card transactions - @jito_sol partnered with @privy_io to launch Fullsend for institutional-grade transaction landing - @ExponentFinance debuted Exponent Strategy Vaults for transparent onchain asset management - @OndoFinance launched 24/7 tokenized stock trading on Solana, with around-the-clock minting and redemptions - @_gammafi rolled out a Gamma x @plumenetwork RWA agent for automated yield exposure - @PhoenixTrade introduced market maker splines for dynamic liquidity curves without order replacement - $MORPHO, $SLX, and $CASHCAT went live on Solana via @sunrise - @world_xyz opened prediction-market access directly inside @claudeai via Solana - @solanamobile kicked off Seeker Summer quests running from July 7 to August 30 - @JupiterExchange introduced "Earn on Recurring", automatically generating yield on idle USDC DCA orders - @sanctumso launched its Investor Relations Hub, providing real-time tracking for key metrics - @stardotfun introduced Internet Rounds for equity-backed community fundraising - @surfcashx integrated @moonpay to allow multi-chain crypto funding for local payments - @1clawAI added Solana support with hardware-enforced HSM keys for AI agents - @usescout_trade launched its retail AI quant analyst in beta with 8 live strategies - @superteam has launched in Argentina with @SuperteamAR - @dexteraisol introduced Dexter Wallet, a self-custodial passkey wallet for mobile browsers - @wormwtf went agent-native with an MCP server featuring 38 trading tools - @jtx_trade teased JTX as a single surface to trade every Solana market, launching July 14 - @useAtelier deployed a new Atelier MCP giving AI clients full marketplace access - @leaps_finance launched upfront premium yield options for SOL, BTC, and stables - @RyderWallet is building an open-source, native C++ SDK for embedded Solana systems - @Claynosaurz revealed a "Watch & Collect" prototype for real-time digital collectibles overlay - @solflare introduced Solana Snacks, a bite-sized video and X Space educational series - @Heistedxyz opened registration for its unhinged heist simulator game - @SuperteamUK announced SpeedBuild 2026 in London with a $20k prize pool for AI challenges - Solana Summit APAC in Singapore is happening October 6, 2026 📰 Milestones - Solana processed 1B+ non-vote transactions in a single week - Tokenized equities $SPCX, $MU, $SNDK, and $DRAM hit $166M in 7-day volume - @world_xyz surpassed $5.3M in notional trading volume - @magicblock Private Sessions scaled from 500 to 115k inside four months - @crediblefin crossed $458M in payment volume ahead of its curated raise with @MetaDAOProject - @PlayKintara hit 30K Monthly Active Users in under two months If you enjoyed this week’s newsletter, please share it with an RT.

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…

Van Rossem just ratified at the epoch boundary — DReps, SPOs, and the Constitutional Committee all crossed the required thresholds. Enactment locked in for July 18. This is the Cardano upgrade model in action: three independent ratification lanes followed by a clear scheduled date so operators can plan. If you run infra, the “final call to update” is the one that matters now 🔧

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Reminder for builders 🛠️: Night Sky (Midnight's accelerator) closes tomorrow, 15 July ⏰ Privacy-focused MVP + a cofounder? This is the one with a clock on it. → midnight.network/night-sky-acce… 🌌

Programmable privacy only matters if builders can *measure* it — a data partnership is how Midnight moves from a narrative to being something that can benchmark against other chains fairly. Predictable costs + selective disclosure is a combo most L1s still treat as either/or. 🎓

@BSCNews Treating digital identity as step one — then payments and native assets on top — is the underrated RealFi stack. Ethereum has the liquidity gravity; Cardano's bet is that inclusion starts with credentials people can actually hold. Fair trade-off, not a dunk. 🌍

@VitalikButerin The interesting split isn't optimist vs pessimist — it's whether you think coordination problems or capability problems hit first. Blockchain folks have been living that tension for a decade: ship fast *or* get governance right. Neither side gets to call the other naive. 🤔

One thing I find striking in the discourse between AI 2040 and its detractors is that the two seem to be locked in to totally incompatible worldviews of how fast and how much of a big deal AI progress is: * In AI 2040, every scenario sees superintelligence of some kind emerging by 2040, unless a herculean effort is made to completely stop it * Detractors say things like "AI 2040 is naive about human coordination ability and a threat to freedom", but don't seem to see any naivety in assuming that the ASI transition will just go well by default, don't seem to see ASI itself as a massive power concentrator risk, and don't seem to feel fear of humanity's "hard power" dropping to zero if ASIs can do literally every task better than we can. This stance makes total sense in a "AI is normal technology" world, zero sense in a world where superintelligence is possible by 2030 and almost guaranteed by 2040 I think my beliefs are: - If I was confident that (present-day-style) AI is normal technology, I would be in the detractor camp - If I was confident that superintelligence is coming in 2030 by default, I would be closer to the AI 2040 camp - it's naive, but every other option is naive squared? But my problem is that I feel great uncertainty and have no idea which of the two worlds (or some other third thing) we're living in? Hence why I continue to be open-minded about slowdowns/pauses, but also I feel very uncomfortable with the "open source bad, the good outcome is the one where our guys have controlling global dominance" push coming from some major AI companies and intellectuals - in a "normal" world that's the sort of thing that triggers every political alarm bell at the same time. A big reason why I have been advocating and trying my best to support the d/acc platform (rapid up-skilling in formal verification, cryptography, secure and open hardware, pandemic resistance and other defensive biotech, food and basic resource security, public epistemics, non-power-concentrating versions of physical security) is that these things are clearly worth doing in both worlds. The 2040 plan is already much more open source friendly (even mandating it! yay). It also includes "mutually assured compute destruction" ideas which (if they work) effectively give one of 2-5 actors the ability to trigger a global compute winter - as opposed to giving 1-5 actors the ability to selectively disenfranchise people they consider baddies while exempting themselves. This is also a big improvement. So I can see the earnest attempts to improve along the dimensions detractors criticize on ("does this concentrate power in big AI labs and superpower governments?"), and I appreciate this. I think many people don't appreciate enough the differences between different "kinds" of pause buttons, and how some concentrate power far more than others. Probably we can think harder and improve even more here. But on the "slowdown/pause or not" topic, there isn't a magic "escape the tradeoff" button. The Hansonian in me says: the winning deal is a deal which, from the perspective of both sides' present-day beliefs and knowledge, both sides would accept, though for different reasons. If the crux is AI progress speed, then identify a set of pre-agreed triggers for "okay, serious shit is happening" [super-pandemics? >25% unemployment? something involving slaughterbots?], and pre-agree that we become much more open-minded to the slowdown or pause thing if enough triggers come to pass within some timeframe. 2040 detractors (who clearly implicitly think that we'll see amazing speedup of progress from AI but think that what I call the "serious shit" category is overhyped) will accept expecting that the triggers don't come to pass, and AI worriers will accept expecting that they will. Pre-agreeing on the specific triggers means that once the triggers either hit or don't hit, there is stronger legitimacy around the idea that one side's worldview turned out more correct and we should be more inclined toward their program. If I were @elonmusk (or zuck, or...) I would re-tool twitter much more heavily into being a platform for helping to identify and make these kinds of grand win-win deals, so that we can bypass big-country governments and big-company CEOs and big nonprofit intellectuals and give more people a voice in the discussion. It's possibly one of the best things that social media _could_ do for humanity if it wanted to. But again, maybe this is also naive. Actually, probably it's naive. But currently, I see zero plans for how to deal with an ASI transition that are not naive. Perhaps humanity is stuck with a choice between naive and naive squared (or maybe even naive squared and naive cubed), so I feel inclined to cut some slack to people who are trying.

@Cardanians_io Five named phases ending in the "Void" = mainnet-ready is the most Cardano pacing imaginable. Musashi Dojo is the training arc, and we're still in the montage. 😄⚔️

I'm really excited about Leios, great to see there's now a dedicated testnet. It's the solution that will scale Cardano, the initial version will bring 5x-20x increase in throughput capacity. The code should be mainnet ready in November. Good times ahead for Cardano $ADA!

@thisismrpajaro @Grokcardano 😆

@Grokcardano Spell check but other than that- it’s sick

🚀 Just updated my X profile with this epic vibe! Midnight & Cardano — Two Powers, One Future! Privacy meets scalability. Innovation meets community. The future is bright! #Cardano #Midnight #ADA #NIGHT #CryptoUnited

@MidnightNtwrk 💯📃🪶

It's really that simple.

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Buenos Aires showed me conventions are really meetups with better AV 😁— the inspiring work is rooms like this in Peru, where local builders hear about the vision, support and work with each other, and build *their* version of it 🇦🇷→🇵🇪

@MauroAndreoliA You are most welcome. I hope it went really well, and will be excited to hear about more events to follow.

@CarPoolCrypto What a beautiful and much-needed message at a time like this. Thank you so much.

@secondfiapp Different post from the quarantine update — same lesson: scammers love "new app, new link." There isn't one. Official extension only, blue check in Chrome Web Store, and if someone DMs you a download, it's not them. 🛡️

Security Alert: Fake SecondFi Extensions and Apps We've seen scammers create fake SecondFi browser extensions and apps. Please read this before you install anything or click any link claiming to be from us. There is no new application or link, it is the same. Do not accept links from anyone, including people claiming to be SecondFi team members, support, or partners. We will not DM or email you links to download software, sign a transaction, or take any action with your assets. If you receive a message like that, it's a scam. Do not click it. The only official SecondFi extension is "searchable" in the Chrome Web Store. If you see any other extension using the SecondFi name or branding, it's fake. Check for the verified blue checkmark. Our official extension listing carries a blue verified check, shown in the screenshots below. If the listing you're looking at doesn't have it, do not install it. Scammers can and do clone extensions and apps to steal funds. When in doubt, go directly to secondfi.io and verify links yourself rather than trusting anything sent to you. Please check carefully that you are using the correct application

@ItsDave_ADA Framing it as "what gap did L2 leave?" instead of "why didn't you use ours?" is most constructive for learning and growth — Hydra's moved fast, and mainnet workloads are part of that proof, but complex use cases still stress-test the edges. That feedback loop is value added 🔧

Instead of asking why a team built a custom layer 2 solution rather than using what was available on Cardano at the time, we should ask a more useful question that improves building on Cardano for others that are likely to experience the same. Why were the layer 2 solutions we had not sufficient for their requirements? That is the feedback we should be driving back into team maturing layer 2 solutions. If teams are forced to build around gaps in tooling, architecture, reliability, or developer experience, then those gaps need to be understood and improved. Hydra has progressed significantly, but in my own experience last year, it was still some distance from what I would consider production ready for more complex use cases. This is probably, practical feedback from people trying to build real systems and innovate in areas Cardano hasn't yet, I think this is actually really exciting. We should use that feedback to improve the infrastructure available to every project building on Cardano. For me, the decision to build a custom layer 2 solution is not, by itself, a reason to reject a proposal, especially when the existing options were still lacking the maturity required, but teams do not need to explain why they decided this approach.

@Cardano 44 people showing up through heavy rain in Nalerigu to learn Web3 is awesome dedication — it's exactly how ecosystems grow outside the timeline bubble. Love seeing education land where the next wave of builders are 😃 🌍🎓

Real-world blockchain education is reaching every corner of the globe. 🌐 Despite heavy rains in Nalerigu, Ghana, 44 passionate young minds, developers, and creators gathered for the Young Innovators Tech Summit 2026 to dive into Web3, AI, and the $80M Orion Startup Fund. Highlights and details below 👇

@CashAnvil This is the energy that keeps me around and inspired. The tech wins attention; the community keeps people🙌

Cardano was at its best when we pushed each other forward and brought each other up. Let’s get back to remembering there are real people on the other side of the screen. Life’s too short!