Frederik Gregaard

We are very excited to see fWHEAT go live. 🌾 Premium wheat in Argentina, tokenized on Cardano with support from the Cardano Foundation, @finest_tokenize, and @NMKR_io. Fully collateralized and audited. Certificates hashed on chain. RWAs on-chain are just getting started.

Everyone is talking about Agent-To-Agent Payments. I think we're one of the only ones actually executing them daily on an Enterprise scale. Screenshot below shows Hannah (our AI Research Coworker) hiring 5 different agents from 5 different companies, paying them with Stablecoins on Masumi and then using their outputs to create a consolidated report.

@W3i_CEO September 2024. Presentation of the use case followed at the summit from NASA itself.

@F_Gregaard When was this?

Standing next to history. Learning from trailblazers. In 2024 I had the incredible privilege of visiting the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to speak with space engineers about blockchain and how decentralized infrastructure could support future space missions. But what stayed with me most from that visit wasn’t the technology. It was the people. Standing beneath the Space Shuttle Discovery, I had the chance to meet two remarkable pioneers of space exploration: • Eileen Collins — the first woman to pilot and later command a Space Shuttle, and commander of Discovery’s historic “Return to Flight” mission. • Pamela Melroy — one of the few women to command a Shuttle and today a leader shaping the future of space exploration. Listening to their stories while standing next to Discovery was a powerful reminder that history doesn’t move forward on its own. It moves forward because people are willing to go first. On International Women's Day, I’m reminded how many of those “firsts” have been carried by women who opened doors in science, engineering, and exploration. Space exploration. Technology. Blockchain. Every frontier advances because someone dares to step into the unknown. And the next generation is already watching.

The hard parts of building a Cardano node isn't really the development of its many parts. It's the conformance. Making sure that you build the right node. The one that will match the behaviour of the existing Haskell node. The one that will not put the network at risk.

Cardano just got programmable tokens at scale. With CIP-0113, token issuers now have a standard to enforce compliance logic directly to native Cardano assets. The framework is modular, open source, and live on the Preview testnet. Learn more: cardanofoundation.org/blog/programma…

This was a tough one, and still some way to go. But adding it with the Pentad work and the other integrations I see a lot of business opportunities for our community and opportunities for attracting liquidity through the Archax integration

Really good post and thank you Yoda for bringing this up again.

Hi Robin, the toolkit is actually available here dfx.swiss Open CryptoPay is an open license-free P2P payment standard for all blockchains and crypto assets and is also Bitcoin Lightning LNURL backward compatible. Then you need someone in Germany who is willing to play like Kaufland or similar. It is actually a cheaper rail than most other cards so it would fit well in Germany.

@F_Gregaard What can we do to expand this to Germany? I need this, Frederik!

To all the people in Switzerland lets go to Spar and pay with ADA

The question is not whether your AI agents are capable. It is whether, when one of them makes a consequential mistake, and eventually, one will, you can answer definitively: who authorized this, what were the constraints, and where does responsibility sit. Many enterprise leaders understand the AI opportunity, but how many have asked who is accountable when their AI acts on their behalf? As supply chain partners, counterparties, and customers gravitate toward organizations that can prove accountability end to end, the answer to that question will determine who gets to do business, and who gets left on the outside. The infrastructure gap is real. The tools to close it exist. The only variable is whether your organization builds this before or after an incident forces the issue. cardanofoundation.org/case-studies

This is incredible. I'm gonna try this out the next time I leave the house as well. Also Ralph is a legend for buying a Toblerone.

Ok got a lot of questions on which Spar supermarkets accepts this in Switzerland. Eg how to find the 137 SPAR stores. As there are no official list the BTC community is maintaining a Repo so if you want to be certain go on this webpage and search for SPAR btcmap.org

Really nice to finally being able to share some of the numbers and the metrics behind the summits.

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More press coverage for Hannah, Elena and Alex. AI Marketing Coworkers built by one of the top marketing agency groups in the world running on @MasumiNetwork and easily accessible for everyone via email, chat, MS Teams, Slack or Taskboard on @Sokosumi

You can now pay with $ADA at 137 SPAR stores across Switzerland. In partnership with @DFX_swiss and @BrickTowers, we are helping bring blockchain into everyday commerce through real-time, low-cost retail payments. Read the full press release: cardanofoundation.org/blog/ada-accep…

What an email to receive.

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