Rami

"Cardano is leading the entire cryptocurrency industry in this. Bitcoin and Ethereum the other two big guys, they've recused themselves. They've said we don't want to do on-chain governance. In the case of Bitcoin, it's anarchy. Great, they can't change. Which means they have to live with design decisions made by a single person more than 13 years ago and hope to god it's still relevant 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now. There's no way to change it. Well good luck! As for Ethereum, the founder said on-chain governance is a fool's errand you can't do it, you can't achieve it. Okay, so how do you deal with the fact that when you have hundreds of millions of users - you have to represent them? Their needs, their voice, their particular use cases. How do you make a product backlog, without making yourself king for life. Is that decentralized? Is that what we signed up for? Having a beneficent leader who lives on the mountain top? How are we any better than what we assert that we're going to replace? The only way we're going to get it done, is to build an on-chain government; and why they don't do it is because they're scared. They don't know how. There's trust issues. It's hard. 2100 days plus, the Cardano network has been running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by you. The stake pool operators, never down, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Microsoft has gone down since then. Google has gone down for 20 minutes. Amazon has gone down. Think about that, trillion dollar massive corporations with hundreds of thousands of people, the best engineers, mountains of money - and they own the fucking hardware, we don't. Just a bunch of people come together, never met each other, are running this protocol. That's something that is very special and it should never be discounted, it should never be trivialized, and we can never allow other people in the cryptocurrency space to take it for granted - it's a sacred thing. So, that's our challenge. And that is why Cardano I feel is probably going to become the the biggest cryptocurrency in the world. I think it's going to become more than a cryptocurrency. I think it's going to become the backbone of a new digital nation. A new society. A place where we can finally begin to trust each other again. A place where we do our voting. A place where our money lives. A place where our digital life is." -Charles Hoskinson, 8/25/2023

Perps volume on Cardano is up +28.45% over the past week. This is significant growth at a perfect time, as perp interest increases across the entire industry rapidly. STRIKE has just jumped into the top 85 of all perp protocols across the entire industry. Great work, and keep pushing @strikeperps

Something important just happened on the CLARITY Act. Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott said a stablecoin yield compromise will be in his hands by end of this week. The White House is reportedly ready to announce progress. This is the exact issue that's been blocking the bill for months: whether stablecoins can pay yield to holders. Banks hate it. Crypto wants it. "Everyone will be a little unhappy" is how one senator described the compromise. That's how you know it might actually work. April markup. Easter recess. Then the floor. One week could determine whether crypto gets its regulatory framework this year or waits until 2027.

Crypto market momentum is accelerating: Crypto funds recorded +$1.06 billion in inflows last week, the highest since the 3rd week of January. This marks the 3rd consecutive weekly intake, bringing the total to +$2.8 billion. This now recovers most of the -$3.9 billion in outflows from the prior 5-week selling streak. Bitcoin ETFs led with +$793 million, making up 75% of total inflows, bringing the 3-week inflows to $2.2 billion. Ethereum saw +$315 million, bringing year-to-date net flows close to zero. Since the start of the Iran War, total crypto ETF assets under management have risen +$12 billion, or +9.4%, to $140 billion. Investors are returning to crypto despite the geopolitical turmoil.

Get it done

Brand creates community. Community creates demand. Demand creates value. A brand is the ultimate asset.

All dex’s who have $night liquidity are benefitting. All the holders of those dex tokens are benefitting. All $ada holders are benefitting due to the increased chain volume contributing more fees to the Cardano treasury. Lending protocols will see more volume from borrowing/lending activities related to $night. Strike perps platform and its holders are benefitting due to the increased $night volume. There are many benefits.

@CardanoRami @binance So what you’re saying is Cardano’s Dex owners stand to benefit from $NIGHT traffic. How does it affect the average plebb I mean holder?

Congratulations to $NIGHT for officially getting listed on @binance, a great step forward for the entire Cardano ecosystem. Earlier today, 240,000,000 $NIGHT was airdropped to eligible Binance users who subscribed BNB during a certain time window last month. This is equal to 1% of the total $NIGHT supply, worth roughly $11.5 million USD at current prices. I believe an additional 240 million $NIGHT is reserved for future Binance marketing activities which is another 1% of the supply, but that's separate from this distribution. I'm sure the price will short-term dip today due to the amount of the airdrop and selling pressure from recipients, but this is common and well worth the listing which will be a massive benefit long-term increasing accessibility globally; especially after marketing initiatives begin directly from the exchange. The increase in trading volume on $NIGHT will also benefit Cardano activity through DEX arbitrage as we are already seeing today. Well done.

@VaclavJanecek1 @binance Yes

@CardanoRami @binance Is this NIGHT treated as CNT on Binance?

@TheRealWeb3Kat 💯

Cardano's funding model for builders has historically been primarily grant-driven (I'd include token sales, because it's a lot of capital up front before traction has been proven). This is problematic for several reasons. Grants reward plans and this has led us to a situation where we've got a myriad of "funded plans" rather than successful products. Lack of a standardized impact framework means that we've given ALOT of money for initiatives that did not create TVL, transactions, revenue or economic activity. There hasn't been enough pressure on builders to achieve sustainability because there's always been another round of Catalyst just around the corner. Since we haven't tied funding to measurable outcomes, success has been decoupled from our spending. We've handed over hundreds of millions of dollars and been left with levels of economic activity that are abysmal. We have not concentrated funding around things with proven traction which has diluted the impact of Treasury spending. If we want Treasury spending to create a positive impact on Cardano's economic activity, we need measurable outcomes from standardized KPIs which will bake in pressure for teams to become self-sufficient. Gm !

Cardano's DeFi TVL has increased an impressive 23.5% in just 12 days. On 26 February it stood at $447.13M. Today it sits at $552.35M. That is roughly $105M of additional value now locked in Cardano DeFi protocols in just 12 days. Cardano is growing.

Cardano TVL surpasses 700m $ADA for the first time since December 2024🔥

Some really refreshing ideas here and fully agree with this direction, similar thoughts to what I shared recently Let’s get it done

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I'm struggling to wrap my head around #STRC's potential. I know it's huge. I know it's going to continue to get bigger. I know that for every STRC share sold, Strategy sells 3 shares of MSTR. I know that as their balance sheet increases, their ability to raise credit increases. I know that as their credit rating increases, they'll get access to larger volumes of capital who will want to buy STRC & MSTR. I know this is an infinite flywheel. I know it's working. I know there are TRILLIONS of dollars in the fixed income market. I know that STRC is going to capture multiple %'s of that market. I know that for every $1 TRILLION of capital added to the Bitcoin network, it's market cap increases by $4T. I know that Bitcoins price is going to go up. I know that it's going to go up significantly. I know that as Bitcoin's price goes up, #MSTR's share price goes up more. I know this is an infinite flywheel. I know this is Bitcoin singularity. But the sheer SCALE of how much capital is going to be syphoned into the Bitcoin network over the next decade and beyond from these products is something my mind is struggling to really comprehend. It's absolutely insane.

STRC is the biggest thing in finance and is about to have its best week yet. $250M+ in trading volume just today, implying ~2,800+ BTC purchase. And last week? Almost 18,000 BTC added, much of it funded by STRC. So why on earth would anyone want to hold a 10Y UST at 4% when you can hold an 11.50% yield instrument issued by the world’s largest corporate bitcoin holder, paid monthly with low vol?? $STRC is just the beginning of a total restructuring of how capital markets think about yield. Fixed income is about to get CONSUMED. And tradfi hasn’t woken up yet.

@adaorca1 @midnightfdn 🔥

I believe I was one of the most frequently hired developers on Cardano during its peak on chain period. Was I the best? Definitely not. But I had something many didn’t. I consistently went the extra mile. I would help people with zero knowledge of a subject even when it slowed down my own work. I would say yes to deals with modest compensation if it meant someone could ship their dream on chain, without being gatekept. Did bad actors try to exploit that goodwill? Yes. I blocked 99% of them but a few still slipped through. Looking at the current revenue of many of the apps I deployed, especially in dollar terms, it is almost funny. With ADA where it is today and on chain traffic near zero, there is not nowhere enough usage to sustain a full time engineer’s real life expenses from those apps alone. But that is fine. We were never building for the lifestyle. Instead we were building something bigger than ourselves. In 2024, I built @snekx_io (before even collaborating with Snek on the project) at a time when minting a token on-chain wasn’t straightforward. Today it might look like “old tech,” but let me tell you during June 2024, when the network was congested from traffic, SnekX ran flawlessly. It was by far one of the most used apps on Cardano at the time and it’s still live. In late 2024 and early 2025, the Hodlcoin implementation I built, adapted from Ergo and made plug and play for existing tokens, turned the standard memecoin into a more sophisticated holding game. Something that, to my knowledge, hadn’t been done on any chain in that form. Again, we broke records. If this had launched on Solana… you know how that story goes. But we did it here. And it’s still live and working. Another product I built was the @DanZoADA backend, which remains the only casino (across chains) offering pooled house liquidity, meaning anyone can become “the house” and earn rewards. A decentralized house for a gambling app on a decentralized network. It still pays liquidity providers every 5 days, without hiccups. I only like taking credit for projects that actually push the chain forward, things that are not just copy pasta from elsewhere. The best ideas don’t come when you’re maniacally locked in. They come naturally on a walk, when your mind is calm and the patterns connect. 🌳 After taking a breather, I think we have one more truly revolutionary product in us one built on the knowledge I’ve gained from five+ years of building, revising, consulting on and investigating decentralised applications. So I want to make it official I’m now formally one of the developers behind @NorthStarDEX and I’m backing it with everything I can offer as a Cardano veteran. We’re here to build a real revolution, revolutionizing every part of the experience. ✅ Open source ✅ Revenue sharing ✅ Refundable early ICO (if we don’t deliver, you get your money back) Because revolutions don’t start with hype. They start with people, standing together. Can we shake up things, one more time? 🫡 You can join us here: discord.com/invite/pscESSe…

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