CardaFlow

Today, I am starting learning my first programming language - Haskell - Bold objective: say hello by 2030

Indigo Protocol is the first Cardano project integrating Pyth Pro 🔥 For synthetic assets, the oracle layer is probably one of the most important things. Better pricing infrastructure usually improves execution, liquidations, and overall market reliability. Well done team!

Might be the only thing about which US and China aligned

Please if you support pebble do make some noise when you can You have no idea how important it is 🥹

Still planning to prioritize HLabs Pebble & 1st Node in Browser

While the outcome of 2025 spendings is not complete, market conditions remain difficult I stick to a strict budget discipline by targeting a maximum 2026 budget prorata well below the approved NCL NB: on hold about IO Cardano maintenance pending more detailed breakdown

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@astroboysoup @phillip_pon Around 200M, imo I would be opened to increase it only if market conditions were changed

@Carda_Flow @phillip_pon yeh, I reckon a social cap under 350M makes sense. I'm leaning 200-250M this round. Where would you set it?

We’re already over the 350M ADA NCL. Which means something simple: Not everyone gets funded. “Inevitably, not all proposals can be funded.” @phillip_pon That’s the reality of real governance. Trade-offs. Priorities. Hard decisions. We’re moving from funding ideas… to allocating capital. *Not a paid promotion

@ecb @Lagarde One does not preclude the other… Both would rather be synergistic, wouldn’t they ?

Stablecoins are not an efficient way to strengthen the international role of the euro, says President Christine @Lagarde. The best solution remains deeper capital market integration through the savings and investment union and a stronger safe asset base ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date…

Waiting for Burritos… cnbc.com/2026/05/08/tra…

Today I was let go from Gemini. After 18 months as Director of Digital Asset Strategy at one of crypto’s most “regulated and responsible” exchanges, my time there has officially come to a very polite and very corporate end. On paper, the role was straightforward. Identify digital assets capable of driving trading activity, fee generation, and long term exchange growth. Build the models. Present the numbers. Help increase shareholder value. In practice, it often felt like I’d accidentally joined the Ministry of Ethereum Alignment. And eventually, every road led back to Cardano. Back in March 2025, Tyler Winklevoss publicly stated that ADA was “viable for listing on Gemini” and that the team would look into it. The community got excited. I opened spreadsheets. The data was not subtle. Consistently high staking participation. Deep global liquidity. Strong retail recognition. Deterministic infrastructure. A peer reviewed protocol with actual governance and years of operational history. The revenue projections were serious. Even under conservative assumptions, the modelling suggested Gemini could potentially unlock tens of millions annually in additional trading fees and customer activity through ADA support alone. Later on, even Charles Hoskinson publicly referenced numbers that landed surprisingly close to the same range. So during the presentation I kept it simple. “Tyler, Cameron. This is real demand. Real volume. Real revenue. This is the kind of listing that materially matters to an exchange business and the investors who backed it.” Tyler gave me that classic Olympic rower stare and replied: “We row in very straight lines at Gemini. We stay focused on ecosystems that integrate cleanly with our strategic direction.” Then Cameron Winklevoss added: “We prefer maintaining consistency for users and liquidity partners. Too many detours create unnecessary friction.” At that moment I realised I was pitching Cardano inside what was effectively an Ethereum country club with a matching engine attached. Still, I pushed. There were all hands meetings where my screen “accidentally” displayed Ouroboros consensus diagrams instead of ETH TVL dashboards. There was the famous 18 page ADA pilot proposal that entered the “additional compliance review” folder and achieved eternal life. There were Slack threads where I cautiously tried to establish whether “Ethereum aligned” was an infrastructure preference or a legally recognised religion. At one point I even attempted explaining Cardano governance using rowing analogies and Harvard business terminology. I genuinely thought one of the two would eventually land. I also volunteered to help map out a future Cardano staking integration. Built operational models. Liquidity projections. Customer engagement scenarios. Risk analysis. Somewhere inside Gemini there is probably still a beautifully formatted PDF called: “ADA Revenue Opportunity FINAL v9 USE THIS ONE ACTUAL FINAL.pdf” Unread. Untouched. Preserved like an ancient manuscript from a lost civilisation. Meanwhile we continued rapidly listing every EVM adjacent token with a logo, a roadmap, and at least three venture capital firms emotionally attached to it. Some generated solid activity. Others are still bravely searching for liquidity to this very day. At one stage I did wonder whether turning down obvious revenue opportunities was part of some advanced Olympic rowing discipline technique I simply was not academically qualified enough to understand. Watching billionaires ignore a growing network effect in technology for strategic reasons also has a certain historical familiarity to it. Considering the amount of time spent helping shape conversations around the future of digital assets in America, I did occasionally wonder whether one of the largest digital asset ecosystems on Earth might eventually make it onto the whiteboard. One of my favourite parts honestly was the compensation package. When I joined Gemini I took part of my package in stock options because I genuinely believed in the long term vision. Institutional crypto adoption. Regulated infrastructure. Digital assets entering mainstream finance. All the powerful sounding conference panel phrases. At the time I remember thinking “This could actually end up being life changing.” And to be fair, technically it was. Just perhaps not in the direction originally modelled in the spreadsheet. There was something beautifully ironic about spending 18 months explaining how the company might be walking past tens of millions in potential revenue opportunities whilst simultaneously watching my own stock options slowly evolve into a medium sized takeaway order. At one point I genuinely considered adding projected ADA trading fees into my personal financial planning just to emotionally offset the chart. The real psychological challenge was opening internal revenue models during the day and then opening my brokerage app at night. One graph pointed upwards. The other looked like it had entered a controlled atmospheric re entry sequence. During the exit call HR tried reassuring me by talking about the company’s “strong long term strategic direction.” Which was comforting to hear because my stock options now appear strategically aligned with the value of two coffees and a train station sandwich. They also informed me my role was being transitioned toward AI assisted digital asset evaluation. Which honestly makes sense. An AI model trained entirely on Ethereum research papers, venture capital pitch decks, and compliance memos probably would fit the culture better than I did 😂 This morning’s final HR call lasted about seven minutes. “Your passion for alternative Layer 1 ecosystems has been noted. Unfortunately it no longer aligns with Gemini’s current strategic direction.” Which roughly translates to: “The gate remains closed.” No hard feelings honestly. I actually respect disciplined strategy. I just find it deeply funny that a publicly traded crypto exchange and its incredibly wealthy seed investors would collectively look at tens of millions in potential annual revenue and decide: “No thanks. Wrong ecosystem.” Especially while GEMI trades at a fraction of its IPO valuation from last September. As I packed up my desk, I remembered last year’s Secret Santa. Tyler, if you still have the gift I got you, I hope it made it through compliance review. It was a custom 2026 Cardano ecosystem calendar featuring governance votes, Ouroboros milestones, staking snapshots, and treasury proposal deadlines. At the time it felt thoughtful. In hindsight, it may have been classified internally as exposure to alternative infrastructure ideology 😂 Anyway. Wishing the team smooth rowing ahead. @Gemini @tyler @cameron The crypto ocean is a lot bigger than one lane, one that deserves free-flowing liquidity and equality for all, without attempted gate-keeping. My friend, Aydar Lovelace, starts Monday. From what I understand his qualifications are extremely strong.

I would like to verify the reasonableness of the ₳62,134,630 maintenance cost. Could you provide the detailed allocation of each line item — particularly the breakdown within the 74% Development bucket — and explain what would fall into dysfunction if any area were staffed below the indicated level? I had AI sketch out an example of what such a response could look like. With this kind of disclosure, we can move past the open-ended sentiment debate over whether maintenance costs feel too high or too low, and put DReps in a position to vote with confidence.

Cardano DeFi lacks composability as a critical component to a thriving ecosystem. We’re going to improve this with Indigo Limitless. 👏 @FluidTokens @strikeperps @DanoFinance @surfcardano @TapTools what can we build?

Gas prices are at crazy levels--fire Obama!

Dans ces nouvelles images de propagande iranienne, Téhéran dépeint Donald Trump sous les traits d'un minion

China's Commerce Ministry blocks US sanctions against five refineries reut.rs/42I92HB reut.rs/42I92HB