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@ItsDave_ADA How large was your treasury withdrawal to create this governance tool? 😉

How much has your DRep actually committed to spend? DAVEGov lets you see it directly. Connect your wallet or search any DRep to view their committed spend across the current budget cycle and prior periods. You can also inspect how they behave, their mission. Voting patterns, participation, relative rank, and overall activity are all visible in one place. This gives a clearer picture of intent, consistency, and fiscal approach over time. If governance is about accountability, this is where it starts, enjoy! governance.cardano-visualisation.com

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@astroboysoup @v_vukman @Cardano @dapp_central @LGC_Josh @cwpaulm @cryptorecruitr Love your videos @astroboysoup. You help make the space accessible and comprehensible

You’ve pretty much summed it up. One comment about Linda’s content, it seems to not do as well on YouTube. Algorithm favours thumbnails clickbait and regular videos so reach is limited. Josh got a new job. Paul is coding a lot more these days. We locked in monthly live streams to keep him active. Farid, I don’t think he’s ever coming back. As for me, this is all a hobby at the moment. Work and life stuff first. Sorry about the last booking session. My broken finger thing was kinda important.

Where are the "so-called" @Cardano YouTubers, and Cardano KOLs in general? Who to contact when the Cardano project needs a push? @dapp_central is on hold, and @LGC_Josh is not creating any content either. @cwpaulm is moving very slowly (one video a month), @cryptorecruitr is a Cardano fan, but his content is crypto in general, so it seems only @astroboysoup is here to help us with his YT/video content and promo, which I need to say never loses its objectivity or quality. Have I missed anyone? Maybe @EuCardano? Their crew did a great promo for years for free, but never received the praise/traction they deserved, in my humble opinion, so I'm not sure where they stand today. What about the Cardano news portals: the longtime very popular @CardanoFeed seems to be on autopilot (probably bot-driven), with random posts and no organic reach; CardanoNews (dead, I guess). Btw. what happened with @CardanoSpot from @emurgo_io (no new post in last 6 months)? Ok, there are some X profiles like @coc_space (great guys), @ESCOweb3, who is relentlessly pushing the Cardano narrative, of course @LaPetiteADA, but lately seems to be trying to address a wider audience via the $BTC narrative, and @Cryptofly777 (Linda), somewhat similar but still with us. Even @BullishDumpling could fit into the category, but she's not even close to what she was before she took the Cardano Summit award for the best Cardano influencer. Here I need to mention @invalid_eutxo, who's still actively promoting, but now via live events, if not mistaken. So, except for some stars still shining, things are not looking so good. I'd even go so far as to say we lack a single good web news portal dedicated to the ecosystem that would cover projects, conduct interviews, produce promotional videos, publish product reviews, publish press releases, make announcements, and, in general, cover all that's happening with and within the Cardano space. Tons of money were spent on unnecessary things via @Catalyst_onX, but I don't remember if anyone has proposed a high-quality web portal to promote Cardano. @songoncardano team, any thoughts or updates on the topic? I believe you had something in mind. In the end, we come back to one who created the space - like him or not (I use this too often when the man is in question 🙈), @IOHK_Charles is still our best and laudest voice. Whatever you may think, I don't even want to imagine what the situation would be like without him. This is not a post about him, but AI says it is.

@SpentronSpence @NicolasC3rny At least we got 8 figure stable coin liquidity.....oh wait....

Sure just spend all the Ada, pay your salaries and leave everyone else holding in ruins. Those people are the problem not the wolf in sheep’s clothing… these takes make you look weak and pathetic. Sorry if that hurts your feelings, but that’s an honest take who doesn’t rely on a paycheck from this ecosystem.

I love the passion of the Cardano community when it comes to governance. It proves we're all deeply engaged and want what's best for the ecosystem, even when opinions clash. Let's just remember to keep debates respectful. Tearing things down just because we disagree will only leave us in ruins.

@sirsimba55 @perpsonx Minted my first perps. Was NOT disappointed - got a nice laugh seeing this pop up in my wallet!

Promo for NEW holders! they currently have a promo mint a Perp for 80 Ada and get 200K $perp(valued at 34 ADA.) great time to get one! If you mention I sent ya I get 200k $perp as well…. @perpsonx Still some 1/1 in minter. mints.yepple.io/perps

@MinswapIntern @Cardano_CF @emurgo_io Guess they moved on from 8-figure stable coin liquidity for another treasury withdrawal. Cool.

BREAKING NEWS: CARDANO FOUNDATION TARGETS TOKEN2049 WITH NEW TREASURY PROPOSAL 😱😱😱 The @Cardano_CF and @emurgo_io have submitted a new treasury withdrawal proposal to fund Cardano Summit 2026 and secure title sponsorship at TOKEN2049 this October. Do you agree with this?

@FluidTokens It was my mistake - the transaction went through. I thought a given 54 ada transaction was associated with an offer on jpg store. Thank you!

@PfantasyHero Pls open a ticket in discord so we can check 🫡

Rewards are out! 🚨 More fees and TVL = More rewards for everyone → ADA bonus for LPs: 6% APY → $USDM bonus for USDM providers (the biggest provider got 1800 USDM) → $ADA and $BTC rewards distributed to Aquarium validators → ADA and BTC rewards distributed to stakers, including 10,000 ADA in fees It’s a great day to start using Fluid😤

@ItsDave_ADA Dave looking to take over as the GOAT of Cardano analysis

Let’s revisit this today and compare where Cardano actually stands now against this critique from October 2025. 1. Absence of Native Stablecoins (USDC/USDT) iUSD frequently depegs; DJED suffers from poor liquidity. Traders avoid on-chain activity and stick to centralized exchanges. DeFi cannot thrive without reliable stables. Competitors like Solana, Sui, Hype capture billions in stablecoin volume while Cardano remains sidelined. Today, just over a month ago USDCx launched on Cardano, USDCx is redeemable 1:1 for USDC, built with privacy in mind, and importantly, it cannot be clawed back or frozen at the address level. 2. Critically Low Liquidity and TVL Total value locked stands at roughly $680M. High slippage on trades and collapsing daily volumes. DEXs feel empty. Significant price impact on even modest trades discourages participation. When looking at today’s TVL metrics, this point does not really hold up. At the time this was posted, Cardano DeFi TVL was sitting at 447.9 million ADA. Today, it is around 542 million ADA, which is an increase of roughly 21%. The dollar value may look weaker on the surface, but that is mainly because ADA itself has declined in price since then. In native ADA terms, the amount of capital deployed across Cardano DeFi has actually grown. At the protocol level, the picture is even clearer. FluidTokens has seen close to a 100% increase in TVL since this was posted. Danogo has also gone on to more than double its TVL over the same period. 3. Severe Network Congestion Transaction times stretch to 2+ minutes during peak activity. Promised scaling solutions like Hydra and Leios remain unreleased. Real-world throughput struggles below 100 TPS under load. Ethereum Layer 2s handle far greater demand. This point also feels increasingly outdated when you look at what has happened since. Since this was posted, Cardano Leios has made very visible and most importantly transparent progress, with the path toward 1,000 TPS showcase becoming far more tangible through ongoing development and demonstrations. I have not seen meaningful congestion issues myself, and even during periods of elevated activity such as the NIGHT launch, the blockchain remained usable and trading demand was clearly absorbed. DEX activity increased heavily, and continued to function as expected. 4. Minimal On-Chain Adoption Daily active users hover around 19,000 according to DefiLama but the true Cardano DeFi people know there are not 19k actively trading. Declining on-chain metrics signal fading interest. Without users, builders have no incentive. Solana processes similar activity in minutes, not days even if it is with bots. Volume clearly drives adoption and we must learn from this. There is not much weight in this point, because daily active users as a headline metric is close to meaningless when you compare chains with very different fee markets and architecture. On Cardano, transaction fees still carry enough cost that users are generally paying to perform an interaction they actually want. That makes the activity more deliberate. On Solana, fees are so low that bot traffic, wash trading, spam interactions, and mass account creation can all inflate what gets presented as “daily active users.” That makes the number look impressive, but it does not automatically mean the activity is economically meaningful. Volume does matter. Adoption absolutely matters. But it has to be real. If the system is mostly recording inorganic interactions, then all you are really doing is writing low value noise to the chain forever. That comes with a cost, and over time that cost shows up as state growth, infrastructure burden, and reduced ability for ordinary participants to independently run and verify the network. That is a much bigger issue than people admit. 5. Negligible Marketing Reach Communication stays within the existing community. Little presence among mainstream influencers or venture capital. Superior technology means nothing without visibility. Perception lags: many still ask if Cardano is active. There is some truth in this. A lot of the conversation around Cardano still circulates within its own community. External coverage is thinner than it should be, and that does affect perception. People still question whether the ecosystem is active, which says more about distribution than it does about what is actually being built. But there is another side to this that gets overlooked. Cardano already has one of the larger and more engaged communities in the space. When content does land well, the reach is there. I see it directly in the level of interaction and distribution on posts that are grounded in real activity. From a creator perspective, I see this as a missed opportunity. There is room to build an audience by focusing on actual system design, innovation, ecosystem, governance, and onchain activity, while still achieving monetisation through attention and growth, Cardano has a lot of opportunity. 6. Lack of Interoperability and Bridges Isolated ecosystem. Cross-chain development requires excessive custom effort, deterring projects. Cardano operates as a standalone chain while the industry moves toward seamless multi-chain integration. This point has aged badly. Since this was posted, USDCx has launched on Cardano, and that matters far beyond just “another stablecoin.” USDCx is backed 1:1 by USDC and uses Circle’s xReserve infrastructure, which gives Cardano a far cleaner route for capital to move in and out of the ecosystem without relying on the kind of third party bridge design that has historically introduced unnecessary risk. In practical terms, I see this as liquidity expansion and stronger interoperability with the wider USDC network across multiple chains. There is also a second development that springs to mind here that is even more important from a systems perspective. The first atomic swap between Cardano and Bitcoin has now been performed by FluidTokens, with native BTC swapped directly for native ADA. No wrapped asset, no custodian, and no synthetic representation sitting in the middle. That is a very different standard of interoperability to what most of the industry markets as “cross chain.” For Cardano, this starts opening the door to real Bitcoin DeFi, where Bitcoin liquidity can interact with Cardano rails without first being abstracted into someone else’s trust model. Then there is Pyth, which is also important to note here too. Pyth is a first party oracle network that brings real world price data onchain, including crypto, FX, commodities, equities, and other market feeds. That matters because serious DeFi does not just need tokens moving across ecosystems, it also needs shared market data infrastructure that allows lending markets, perpetuals, synthetic assets, liquidations, collateral management, and pricing logic to operate with far better external awareness. As that comes into testing and integration across Cardano, it materially expands what builders can plug into and reduces the idea that Cardano is somehow sitting in isolation. LayerZero also matters here. It gives Cardano access to broader cross chain messaging and liquidity rails, which lowers the amount of custom work needed for external integrations. That means Cardano is moving further away from being a closed ecosystem and closer toward real multi chain connectivity. When you combine USDCx, Bitcoin atomic swaps, Pyth, and LayerZero, the idea that Cardano lacks interoperability just does not hold anymore. 7. No Major Exchange Support for Native Tokens Prominent tokens like Snek lack Tier-1 listings. Low on-chain volume blocks exchange interest. Tokens remain illiquid and trapped. Without centralized ramps, growth stalls. This point no longer really stands. Since this was posted, SNEK, IAG, and NIGHT have all secured listings on Kraken, which is clearly a reputable tier 1 exchange. On top of that, NIGHT was also listed on Binance this month, which materially changes the picture. That matters because exchange access is one of the main ways liquidity broadens beyond the existing onchain user base. So the claim that Cardano native assets remain trapped without credible centralised ramps is now outdated. The market has already moved past that. In my opinion, some of this was fair criticism at the time, but a lot of it has not aged well. I am thinking more and more that Cardano’s issue has not been inactivity, it has been recognition lagging behind delivery. When you look at what has actually progressed across liquidity, infrastructure, interoperability and adoption, the gap between perception and reality is becoming harder to ignore. When I see what is happening around Cardano, I see a blockchain with growing utility, that is open for business. Put a transaction on Cardano.

@CSWAP_Destroy Another day, another 6 ADA

@CSWAP_Destroy Currently sitting on a nice pool of rewards

I know a lot of folks who have taken part in the Cardano ecosystem have had a less than positive experience, but there are still some good things. $CSWAP stakers are extremely happy. I have literally not heard one complaint. They are earning great rewards + 100% revenue share.

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@SpentronSpence Context?

Allowing demonstrably false statements without pushback isn't free speech, it’s allowing tyranny free rein.

@palmeconomy @CswapDEX seems like a great home

We’re streamlining where $PALM liquidity lives. PALM trading activity has been overwhelmingly concentrated on Cardano DEXs, while some venues saw very limited usage. Rather than spreading liquidity thin, we’ve made a deliberate choice to put our capital, time, and resources behind Cardano and the builders actually growing the ecosystem. That means reallocating liquidity from MEXC to an established Cardano DEX. We’re already live on Minswap and VyFi, and this will become our third official PALM pool. By consolidating liquidity on Cardano, we reduce unnecessary costs, improve efficiency, and strengthen on-chain trading activity. The new official PALM pool will be announced soon. We’re building on Cardano and backing it with real liquidity. Keep $PALM 🌴

All @GGMC_nft holders - claims are now open! Head over to Kingdom Connect at app.ggmc.io

@ItsDave_ADA Already had multiple limit buys hit!

I’m adding some meaningful ADA size here, with price now below $0.30.

@ItsDave_ADA Nice to see @CswapDEX getting some love as well.

Also nice to read they are working closely with other DApps, Minswap, Sundae, Fluid, DexHunter etc. Along with development companies.

I was cautiously optimistic about Bitcoin DeFi on Cardano. It made sense on paper, but the open question for me was whether it would actually materialise. I have confidence in teams like FluidTokens and have no doubt they will deliver solid work on their side to fill gaps. My concern was broader. After the initial announcements there was very little visibility, and I know I was not the only one asking what progress had been made. I watched the Essential Cardano360 January 2026 update and that concern has largely been put to rest. The work underway is substantive, and the explanations from Omer Husain on the Bitcoin DeFi track at Input Output were clear and detailed. Credit as well to whoever organised that session. It was a genuinely useful update and did a good job of closing the information gap. Omer Husain, Manager for Bitcoin DeFi at Input Output, explains how they are building an end to end Bitcoin DeFi liquidity stack. The goal is to enable Bitcoin holders to earn real yield. To do that, they need access to stablecoins for investment, with Bitcoin locked non custodially as collateral to borrow those stablecoins, alongside defined borrowing terms and interest rates that are attractive for participation. He outlines three core requirements: A credit market that creates stablecoin liquidity A yield application that deploys capital into real world, off chain yield opportunities A trust minimised BitVM based bridge that allows users to use Bitcoin as collateral without custodial risk End to end, for users, the experience is intended to be as simple as using an earn product on a centralised exchange. Rather than pulling ADA out of staking, which is already safe and attractive, this approach allows external liquidity, especially in the form of Bitcoin, to enter Cardano. The trust minimised BitVM based bridge is materially safer than fragile multisig alternatives and aligns closely with Bitcoin’s preferred security model and ideology. The result looks more like mirrored UTXOs rather than wrapped assets as seen on other blockchains. On the lending side, he states that they have addressed DeFi’s biggest flaw, liquidation risk. Instead of margin lending, they use a peer to peer credit model that resembles private credit. Collateral is only at risk in the case of real default, not short term market volatility. The result is higher quality and more sustainable TVL, increased capital inflows, stronger alignment with Cardano and Bitcoin’s values, and lower systemic risk. Omer references two primary audiences: Bitcoin holders and the Cardano ecosystem. “Institutions that need predictable, non liquidating borrowing, and retail users looking for high quality yield on idle Bitcoin.” “Cardano builders benefit from Bitcoin liquidity, design patterns, ecosystem growth, and the treasury benefits from direct protocol activity.” Overall, this brings a new class of users into Cardano, including tier one institutional treasuries that have historically avoided DeFi due to liquidation risk and instability. It positions Cardano as a leader in Bitcoin utility and opens access to a trillion dollar asset base. They are planning a formal proposal as part of the Cardano 2026 budget cycle for the above from what I can understand Great update, and speaker, very interesting.

@GGMC_nft This will be the biggest reveal of the year when it drops!

@ItsDave_ADA @Cerkoryn @IntersectMBO This!

@Cerkoryn @IntersectMBO True but how much is it in comparison to treasury income over the same period the year before?

Net Change Limit 2026/2027 info action is now on-chain. The Cardano treasury is a critical part of supporting long-term ecosystem health. By submitting this Net Change Limit (NCL) proposal, the Budget Committee sets a sustainability focused framework for responsible treasury management. Read the proposal and vote here: buff.ly/eVy4Rxu