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Piece of Pie Hackathon Week 2 of building ChainTask - a trustless on-chain job marketplace on Cardano. Done this week: - Implemented Update / Select / Submit / Release / Refund validator logic in Aiken - Added BuilderWithdraw redeemer so builders can exit cleanly - On-chain platform fee enforcement - Field-level immutability per redeemer to defend against datum hijacking - 35 unit tests passing, 0 warnings Next week: Dispute, Resolve, and the auto-release, auto-refund timeouts. chaintask.net github.com/ArmanAbid/Chai… @gimbalabs #gimbalabs #pieceofpie #hackathon

Noticed most of the CC members have yet to cast votes on active Treasury Withdrawals on chain. Is it because of the large amounts of conflict of interest given we have CF, IO, Intersect employees all serving? Is it because they're waiting to see what the DReps support so they can be on the right side of history? Is it too much workload for an all-volunteer body? Also wondering if we'll see anyone/entity bold enough to invoke Tenant 8 during this season of Treasury Rush: Cardano Edition... TENET 8 The Cardano Blockchain shall not unreasonably spend resources.

💥BREAKING: 🇺🇸 President Trump says he’s going to make a decision over the next few days on lifting the sanctions on Chinese oil companies that buy Iranian oil. Massive signal for oil markets. More Iranian barrels. Cheaper energy. GOOD FOR MARKETS!

CARDANO WHALES NOW CONTROL 67% OF THE ADA SUPPLY Large Cardano holders now control roughly 67% of $ADA supply, the highest concentration since 2020. Whales collectively hold about 25.09 billion ADA after months of steady accumulation. The buying continued despite ADA losing nearly 71% of its market value over nine months. Source: CoinDesk

🚨JUST IN: ANTHROPIC AI FINDS MAC OS BUGS Anthropic’s Mythos helped researchers uncover a macOS exploit that bypasses Apple’s advanced desktop security, as per WSJ.

Cardano's data layer is decentralizing. Last week @stakenuts walked through how with a deep dive on the Blockfrost: Maintenance and Next Generation Indexing proposal Here is a quick recap 👇

🚨NOW: U.S. Senate Banking Committee Approves the CLARITY Act in 15–9 Vote. The Bill will now be sent to the Full Senate.

🔍SEE THROUGH WALLS WITH AI AND WIFI Open-source project RuView just crossed 50,000 GitHub stars. It turns a standard router into a through-wall sensing system using WiFi CSI signals and AI, without cameras, cloud access, or wearables. WiFi sensing has been in research labs for years. RuView makes it something people can run on a $5 chip.

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Ladies and Gentlemen: The builders in this season of Piece of Pie Hackathon sponsored by @Cardano_CF : @mhiztagab1 @0xxxIaN0 @Kamarudeen22205 @realjohnny5i @0xGIDHUB @Adafan430292 @IamHarrie @everydaylewis @_armanabid @GameChangerOk @ogleksb @maxalexweber @Xeeban @blockprint0 @real_winni3 @mobrsys @newman5 @minustenexdev @devfreeguy @Haulink_ @Opa007i @JakesSevi9 @ZannaKonda @yugudap @CInsigthLab @cedufy @DavidTimi_1 Note: If you are not on the list and feel you should be, let us know.

⚡️ INSIGHT: Vitalik Buterin says ZK-payments could become the next standard for crypto payments in the AI-driven “agentic era.”

CRYPTO COM WINS DUBAI PAYMENTS LICENSE Crypto(.)com (@cryptocom) has secured a UAE license to process Dubai government crypto payments. The approval allows residents to pay government fees using cryptocurrencies through the platform. Payments can be funded in digital assets and settled in UAE dirhams. The license activates Crypto(.)com’s partnership with Dubai’s Department of Finance. Future integrations with Emirates Airlines and Dubai Duty Free may follow.

Private offchain state is a problem most blockchains haven't solved. @IOHK_Charles on why Filecoin will be a pivotal component for @MidnightNtwrk, and why every Midnight user will have it as an option for syncing state across devices. From a conversation with @MartaBelcher.

Just in... Leaked Cardano Cabal files

LATEST: 🇺🇸 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the CLARITY Act needs just "one more small push" to cross the finish line, calling it the foundation for "American dominance in digital finance."

🚨JUST IN: The IMF warns frontier AI models are amplifying cyberattacks on global financial systems. The threat is real: OpenAI's GPT-5.5 now matches Claude Mythos in cyberattack capabilities, per the AI Security Institute. OpenAI has now rolled out the new GPT-5.5-Cyber to vetted defenders protecting critical infrastructure. The same models threatening the financial system are now being deployed to defend it.

⚡️BANK OF ITALY PUSHES FOR A TOKENIZED PAYMENTS SYSTEM IN THE EU A Bank of Italy official said the EU should consider a tokenized version of SEPA, Europe’s cross-border payments network. This proposal could accelerate the adoption of tokenised assets across Europe.

🚨TETHER FREEZES OVER $514M IN USDT Tether froze more than $514M worth of $USDT across 370 wallet addresses on Tron and Ethereum over the past 30 days.

NEWS: Cardano secures 17.96% increase in Grayscale SMART CONTRACT FUND

Governance Action Update Title: Cardano Vision 2026: Human Centred, Scalable, Post Quantum Secure - IO Research Authors: Input Output Global, Intersect Type: Treasury Withdrawals Action: explorer.cardano.org/governance-act… @IntersectMBO #Cardano #Governance

Cardano! What if we had a debated, specific Cardano Problem Statement (CPS) that aligns with the "North Star" direction of the ecosystem, BEFORE we see any request for treasury funding? Let vendors compete on delivering what the ecosystem's specific needs are, rather than doing "door sales" on our DReps for what they can deliver?