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Me eyes are burning. People literally believe that #slashing and lock up period is something normal (a must) on a blockchain. We are doomed to be ruled by #banks for the rest of humanity. No wonder why most of these guys disrespect #Cardano. They will learn, eventually.

An update on our engagement with @Mastercard. While Cardano was not included in the initial cohort of 85 launch partners, @emurgo_io has been actively engaging with their APAC team to change that and ensure our ecosystem is represented. Following a leadership transition at Mastercard APAC —where our primary contact moved to EY — we have successfully connected with his successors. They were excited to speak with us and I am pleased to share we are now in the Qualification Stage for the Global Crypto Partner Program. With the continued support of the Cardano community, I am confident in a positive outcome. This important: Please like and share to show @Mastercard the strength of our ecosystem. Mastercard is a global firm.. we need to show them that our inclusion into their Partner Program will make a difference to them. Surely this is an initiative the entire Cardano ecosystem can support! #cardano86 Let's go!!! #cardano #mastercard @Cardano_CF @Cardano @IOGroup @midnightfdn

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@wingriderscom Done

I will delete this tweet in 24 hours. If you believe in Cardano like we do, interact with this tweet. Only real believers will do it. If you’re not following us you will be disqualified. Comment “done” when done.

Solana has a problem. Solana Labs and ecosystem partners face allegations that they enabled or facilitated a meme pump system that gave insiders unfair trading advantages. Solana Labs is accused of deliberately designing and maintaining a system that enabled front-running. Insiders allegedly bought meme tokens before public launch, using priority execution and MEV, and then sold after retail-driven price increases. Look at the Solana design that makes it possible. Solana validators take turns as leaders according to a known, deterministic schedule. The current and upcoming leaders are predictable several slots in advance. If you know who the next leader is, you know who decides transaction ordering for that slot. Solana does not guarantee strict FIFO (first-in, first-out transaction ordering). Cardano also cannot strictly guarantee FIFO, but the UTxO model limits reorder-based MEV. In Cardano, slot leaders are probabilistic. When a leader is drawn, it chooses which transactions to include. There is some ordering discretion. Many front-running strategies are ineffective. Leaders cannot reorder dependent transactions arbitrarily. Reordering would often invalidate transactions. Solana leader can reorder transactions, prioritize some over others, and drop or delay others. This behavior is even incentivized through the fee market. Users can pay higher fees to prioritize transactions. Jito introduced an MEV infrastructure. Instead of broadcasting transactions to the public mempool, users can send transactions directly to Jito and attach explicit tips to validators. Jito allows a submission of bundles with guaranteed atomic ordering. Bundles mean that transaction A executes before transaction B, or neither executes. A "buy-before-users" scenario is technically possible because of how: ▪️transaction visibility, ▪️leader scheduling, ▪️and priority execution work together. Insiders proceeded as follows. In the preparation phase, a new meme token is created, and initial liquidity is added. These events are visible to leaders, validators, or MEV infrastructure before they are fully confirmed and propagated to public RPC nodes. An insider or MEV-enabled trader can route transactions privately, attach high-priority fees, or submit bundled transactions that guarantee execution order. This allows a buy transaction to be inserted ahead of ordinary users' trades, often in the same slot or immediately before the public's transactions, at a time when liquidity is thin and prices are lowest. In the selling phase, once public users buy orders execute and push the price up, the insider submits a sell transaction—again with priority fees or as part of a bundle—ensuring it is processed before competing exits. The result is a complete cycle in which the trader accumulates tokens at near-launch prices, benefits from retail-driven price appreciation, and exits with profit. On Solana, validators and MEV-enabled actors have structural advantages that normal users cannot match. They operate with direct connections to leaders or private relays, often colocated in data centers, giving them millisecond-level latency advantages over retail users relying on public RPCs. They can bypass the public transaction flow and secure earlier or guaranteed execution. As a result, while retail users compete in a delayed, shared environment, infrastructure insiders can consistently achieve better ordering and inclusion, making competition unequal. In contrast, Cardano's Ouroboros protocol uses probabilistic slot leadership, where many slots intentionally have no leader at all, and the EUTxO model sharply limits how transactions can be reordered without becoming invalid. Solana's architecture maximizes throughput and responsiveness but expands the MEV surface by concentrating ordering discretion, while Cardano's intentionally sparse slot design and state isolation reduce continuous control and make similar exploitation patterns far harder to execute. Privacy is the best answer to MEV attacks. Midnight reduces MEV attacks by removing public visibility of transaction intent. Transactions are private by default and executed using ZK proofs, so validators and other network participants cannot see trade direction, amounts, or contract inputs before execution. Without access to this information, common MEV strategies such as front-running, sandwich attacks, and launch sniping become impractical, since there is nothing actionable to reorder or react to. The lack of pre-execution transparency significantly limits extractive, trade-based MEV compared to fully transparent blockchains.

I know everyone was worried about that recent bug, but for us on SanchoNet it was more like: “OMG, this is exactly what we needed for the Scenario 3 disaster-recovery fire-drill!” And that’s exactly what we’re doing today at 18:00 UTC on SanchoNet, using this incident to explore better, faster, and more coordinated ways to recover from situations like this.

@RoundtableSpace The cardano effect. Revives ghost accounts with thousands of followers, yet zero interactions with each post they do, unless it contains the magic word.

One question I always ask myself Is there anyone here using Cardano?

Below you will find my write-up as an independent after action report for the issue impacting Cardano late last week, along with things I learned, why I was impressed, and what I think we can do better at in the future. I try to strike the balance between confronting the seriousness of the issue, while defusing most of the over-stated positions from talking heads on Twitter. This is an adult conversation, not whatever the children are engaging in on Twitter this week. I don't think it's productive to get into debates of what constitutes "downtime" or not; Instead, I tried to equip you with a framework where you, dear reader, can think about these things for yourself, and decide what you want to call it. I just ask that you make that decision for yourself, or allow your audience to do so, rather than parroting some pre-decided talking points. More informed discussion leads to a higher quality industry overall. 314pool.com/post/cardano-p…

I am gonna go out on a limb and actually say this is pretty cool. Nakamoto style consensus without proof of work is extremely hard to build. The protocol functioned as designed in the presence of bugs.

Cardano went down?! Don't believe the FUD! Here is the truth. Node version 10.3 had a bug. Fortunately, about half the Node Validators were on version 10.1.4 and are still producing blocks for the cannonical chain. We already have a fix released with version 10.5.2! All Stake Pool Operators who are running version 10.3, 10.4, or 10.5 (which have the bug) should upgrade to version 10.5.2 so they can get back on Mainnet.

Dear crypto community, let’s be clear: Cardano NEVER went down. 🦋🔥🍄 During the recent network incident, block production never stopped, the chain never went offline, and the protocol kept running. (Please stop spreading misinformation) What happened showed the world the strength of a true community and the power of well-engineered tech. If this was meant to be a test, we passed it with great excellence. Cardano SPOs, developers, and builders across the world came together instantly, coordinated openly, and shared data to strengthen the network asap. Thousands of people taking responsibility for the ecosystem they believe in. This is what true decentralization looks like. This is why Cardano is different. This is why I keep falling in love with this ecosystem. Massive kudos to everyone involved in fixing the petite bug as quickly as possible. 👏 Cardano Community, you rock! 🥰❤️

What is fascinating about yesterday's event is how Cardano recovered from a minority chain and got rid of the symptom while preserving most of the history and progress since the incident. 🧵

Today on Nerdout - HardFork Retrospective

@gnarleyjs Congratulations I guess. This is your first post that got actual attention. Keep up the good work.

Today, Cardano $ADA was attacked. It never stopped producing blocks but it did create a second chain from the attack point. … So Cardano is completely forked and now has two chains nobody uses.

@TXMCtrades Hard to beat AoT as greatest TV series tbh.

Every time I see clips of Game Of Thrones I am reminded that a show which was likely on track to be the greatest series in TV history, was global can't-miss TV for years on end, was driven full speed into a brick wall because the producers wanted to finish in a hurry and pivot to a Star Wars film and a Civil War story where the south survived. Neither of those projects ever saw daylight. RIP GOT. George RR Martin's obese ass will die before we get two more books 😭

@elraulito Massive loss!

I wonder what whale would say these days

Let's gooooo! This is big! Guidance from Treasury and IRS on staking in ETPs. Cardano's self-custodied and natively-liquid staking is going to shine under these rules! 🧵 This is after just a quick cursory read. So, please forgive any mistakes in advance.

@eliz883 Want more interactions? speak more about ada. that's all. ;)

With the quality and value of the content I'm providing, there should be many more likes and reposts. Don't you agree that when someone shares real analysis, experience and methodology... they deserve more visibility than the usual noise?

@benjamincowen I thought you would say governments will do anything to keep #Btc above its bull market support band

Governments will do everything to try and solve their issues except exercise fiscal responsibility

I’ll be honest — the thing that worries me most about this space isn’t the volatility. It’s how distracted we’ve become. Every day I scroll through endless posts about charts, Bitcoin dominance, altcoin dominance, and every new theory trying to explain a market that’s still fringe and still early. When I step back from the euphoria and casino-like noise of crypto and look at it through a business lens, I still don’t see ANY TRULY VIABLE, SUCCESSFUL MAINSTREAM BUSINESS that has MADE IT TO MASS ADOPTION. The only real adoption is coming from banks and institutions. The very ones this movement was supposed to move BEYOND. WTF is what crap? I’ve said this before but it’s worth repeating: I want to see billion-dollar businesses built from Web3 first principles — decentralization, transparency, shared economy — not billion-dollar banks finding new ways to onboard more. When TF did we start celebrating banks buying Bitcoin? We should be celebrating new ways of doing business — real, viable ideas coming on-chain, succeeding, failing, evolving, and getting stronger. We won’t get there by waiting for banks, retail, or anyone else to “make it big” for us. And we definitely won’t get there with this gambling, instant-gratification bullshit mindset. It’s time to get back to building, like we did in 2012 and 2013, when this movement still had a soul.

@eliz883 Hey Eliz,since I’ve been following you,I’ve never seen you share your thoughts on ADA. I’d love to take this opportunity to ask if you could give your view on ADA’s chart and its longer-term outlook (bad or not would appreciate that).Of course,everything depends on BTC. Thanks 🙏

$ADA many similar charts, but to entry’s them you have to wait for the flip on confirmation and set an easy invalidation so as not to risk too much, especially if you are looking for a trend reversal on a bearish retest Smart strategy