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@joshualeestone @Zo_Lee_X @stuff_io @book_io "the steady players make it through the bear market..." youtube.com/watch?v=XCSOsF…

Since you asked… First, I appreciate you being here long term. That really matters. The @stuff_io / @book_io community has been awesome. I love you guys. Seriously. Here’s what’s actually happening behind the scenes: We are building media infrastructure (not a meme token). Real infrastructure is slower, more difficult, and less flashy in bear cycles. In the last five years we have: • Deployed across 6 blockchains • Released 1,000+ projects • Worked with hundreds of creators across books, music, film, and digital media • Rebuilt tokenomics toward a product-driven consumption model We’re in late-stage discussions on a very large enterprise initiative - the biggest thing we have ever done by several orders of magnitude. NDAs are real, so we can’t announce details yet. I know that’s frustrating. But it’s significant. As soon as we can share we will. Most Web3 projects don’t have a consumable product that attracts liquidity from outside crypto. We do. But onboarding enterprises and mainstream users takes time and education. For me personally I have been thinking of how we can get back to the basics and make things easier for people - first principles type stuff. How can we do this 10x more efficiently, what assumption from the past should we keep and what should we throw out. — About $STUFF: I don’t talk much about the token because I never want anyone to think we’re trying to pump and dump. I share the frustration around the chart. It’s not unique to us and in many ways mirrors what Cardano experienced last year. No one enjoys seeing yearly lows. If ADA were trading at $4, we’d be in a very different position. The silver lining is that many great companies are built in bear markets. I personally embrace that environment. It creates discipline, filters out noise, and gives builders room to execute. I also don’t mind proving haters wrong. There’s a Rockefeller quote I’ve always appreciated: the way to make money is to buy when there’s blood in the streets. From my perspective, periods like this are opportunity windows. I won’t restate every utility here since the white paper covers it in depth, but at a high level: • $STUFF will power our Layer 2 for media transactions • It will power our marketplace and secondary store, both currently in development • It will drive the Consume-to-Earn mechanism • We are also preparing to bridge it to another chain (possibly two in discussion) This is real infrastructure, not a narrative experiment. Internally we joke that if we only cared about getting rich fast, we’d launch a meme token, promise massive returns, pump it, and disappear like many have done before. But that’s not who we are. We are building something meant to last. We believe the model is genuinely good for both creators and consumers. This is mission driven, not a shortcut to quick money. We are not chasing meme cycles. We are not here to pump bags. We do not promise instant doubles or 1000x moves in a week. What most Web3 projects lack is what we do have: a real consumable product. Digital media brings in real users from outside the crypto bubble. As those users come in, liquidity follows. That process takes time. It also requires significant education and onboarding work, especially at the enterprise level. We are building patiently, through market cycles, with real products and real adoption as the focus. — About AI: We have been in AI from the beginning. Before ChatGPT was publicly released, we were already using AI in the summer of 2022 to generate and sell book covers. AI has not been a trend we jumped on. It has been embedded in our company since the earliest days. We have dedicated AI engineers on the team, and these tools have been part of how we build for years. Very early on we recognized that AI would dramatically expand the number of creators capable of producing meaningful work. Entire industries such as books, music, and film are being reshaped in real time. When creation becomes easier and more accessible, the bottleneck shifts from production to distribution, audience building, and monetization. We positioned ourselves to serve that shift. Our goal is to be the marketplace where this new wave of creators can connect directly with fans and sell their work. That evolution is already underway and still accelerating. At the same time, we are aggressively pushing into agentic AI programming to fundamentally change how we operate. I am deeply focused on rethinking how we run the team, write and ship code, manage projects, and structure the entire production pipeline. We are designing workflows that are far more agent driven, while still carefully determining the right level of human oversight. The result is a level of speed that is difficult to overstate. Some people are unsettled by this acceleration. I see it as a massive advantage. We already have an exceptional, highly creative, deeply technical team. AI does not replace that talent. It amplifies it. What used to take months now takes days. What used to take weeks now takes hours. That changes everything about how fast we can build. — If you’re looking for reassurance, just know we’re still here and actively building. We’ve been doing this every day for nearly five years. The opportunities in front of us is massive, and the timing of agentic development has allowed us to keep pace with the scale of the enterprise deals we’re working on. These are huge, meaningful initiatives with real upside, designed to bring in lots of new users and deeper liquidity through product sales and onboarding to blockchain infrastructure. We’re not here to pump tokens or promise unrealistic returns. Our focus is building something durable. We are expanding enterprise distribution, accelerating development with AI, and increasing real token utility across the platform. Those fundamentals are what drive long term value. We’re still here. Still building. Five years in. If you’d like a deeper update, join us tomorrow for the Wednesday Wrap Up: x.com/stuff_io/statu….

Dear @joshualeestone ! As the CEO of @stuff_io, you should know that we are long-term holders who are deeply disappointed. We’ve been sinking for years with no clear turnaround. Are we heading toward a Titanic-level ending, or is there a real recovery plan in place? 👇👇👇

Niklas Göke from the @Cardano_CF shares why our Cardano Fundamentals course is worth your time. If you want to understand Cardano better, this course is a great place to start.

I muted all the cardano faces good and bad long long ago and the timeline is so much better to be honest. If you don’t see me interacting with your stuff, that is why, you are muted. I’m still around, the social media convos are just dumb. Just peeked and I regret it.

@adamKDean Warm and sunny here in Ireland 🇮🇪

Come to Japan they said. It will be fun they said. The Japan: 🤠🥶🥶🥶♥️🇯🇵⛩️

@rvcas @FIU @aiken_eng @IOHK_Charles @IOGroup If they leave their receive addresses I will send them a book. Updating the book soon too

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A notable milestone for Cardano and blockchain. We should not be sleeping on this… real world use cases that are grounded in making things better and more secure. Well done @F_Gregaard and @Cardano_CF

📢 PSA I'm delighted to announce the ALPHA release of uplc.link What is uplc.link? UPLC Link (formerly and briefly known as plutus-scan) is a service to build and verify Cardano Smart Contracts. Meaning that you will be able to create a link between a Cardano Smart Contract and the sourcec ode that generated it. This will increase the trust and transparency when using dapps and smart contracts on Cardano. UPLC Link will allow you to verify what source code a smart contract deployed on cardano is actually executing. The code is opensource github.com/easy1staking-c… meaning that although I'll be running the infrastructure, anybody can independently run the infrastructure and verify the code used to build a Cardano Smart Contract: Don't Trust, Verify! Along with that, an API has been developed and deployed which will allow ANY Cardano explorer @cexplorer_io , @cardanoscanio @ada_stat etc, to query by script hash, and get a link to the code that generated it. (swagger available here api.uplc.link/swagger-ui/ind…) UPLC Link it's in ALPHA version, so expect bugs and errors, and currently only works with AIKEN, and tested versions are 1.1.3 and 1.1.9. Support for other major languages will be added at later stage. A CIP has been written for this, so if you want to know more about uplc.link give a read to forum.cardano.org/t/cip-idea-sma… and let me know what you think. On uplc.link there is also an explorer (registry in the navbar) where you can check what smart contracts have already been verified. You can already test the registry by entering "easy1" in the search field as I've registered the contract for AdaMatic.xyz (which is called cardano-recurring-payment). Looking forward to collect feedback from community members and developers.

Ethereum has Etherscan. Cardano has... nothing similar for smart contract verification. This creates a trust gap. Users can't easily verify what code is actually running on-chain. So I built plutus-scan - a proof of concept to solve this. 🧵

La Academia de Cardano. Ahora en español. La Cardano Foundation (@Cardano_CF) está ampliando su esfuerzo educativo global con una versión completamente en español de Cardano Academy, abriendo el acceso a formación gratuita y estructurada sobre blockchain y Cardano para millones de hispanohablantes. Empieza a aprender hoy: cardanofoundation.org/campaign/acade… Aprende sobre blockchain y acelera tu carrera profesional

🔥 Dev Office Hours is BACK! Meet Chimera – Layer 2 with @KubanDigital! Smarter payments. Real negotiation. Banking the unbanked 🌍 📅 Jan 9 | ⏰ 15:00 UTC 🔗 app.addevent.com/calendar/TG807…

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Midnight tokenomics whitepaper: sections 1 & 2 @MidnightNtwrk @midnightfdn @Islandghostxrp @jackoconnorx @cardano @IOHK_Charles @F_ZK_Now @aiken_eng @VitalikButerin @tainabugs

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“I am really proud of this art and the story behind it,” said @SnoopDogg. “But what makes it special is the chance to connect with my fans in person. We are in the day and age where fans are looking for the next newest coolest way of promotion and I believe this is at the forefront.” You can read the full press release here: einpresswire.com/article/876402… Big today tomorrow!