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Let's push Leios over the threshold for Cardano 2026 funding, and continue our shared commitment to Cardano's scalability, you can find this under the proposal named: IO: Consensus Initiative. Cardano will scale whist maintaining its security and decentralization, Cardano will compete.

After the recent LayerZero exploit, we are taking steps to ensure rsETH is fully secure, which is why we are migrating to @chainlink CCIP. From the April 18 incident, it is clear that LayerZero's own infrastructure was exploited, resulting in $300M in losses across DeFi. Independent reports from SEAL 911, Chainalysis, and other major leading security researchers all point to the same origin. There are questions that the ecosystem deserves answers to. And we are ensuring rsETH is secured by infrastructure that doesn't leave these questions open. That’s why we’re setting the record straight.

Most of the L2 Scalability proposal's ask (80%) is for Hydra, so it's worth revisiting what Hydra is and what kinds of use cases it enables for Cardano. Hydra is Cardano's Layer 2 state channel scaling solution. It lets participants open off-chain state channels where transactions settle in milliseconds with zero fees, while inheriting the full security of Cardano L1 as a backstop. USPs: Sub-second finality. No waiting for block confirmations inside a head. Zero fees. Protocol-level, not a subsidy. High TPS. Process thousands of TPS inside the head. Isomorphic. Full smart contract support inside the head, same model as L1. L1-anchored security. Disputes always settle on Cardano mainnet. Funds cannot be taken without unanimous consent. Privacy. Intermediate states are known only to head participants. Trust assumptions and use cases Hydra operates in two modes. Conflating them leads to confusion. Direct setup: participants run their own hydra-nodes. Every participant co-signs every snapshot. The head state cannot advance without your signature. No operator trust at all. This would ideal for institutional market makers, financial actors, and autonomous agents who already run infrastructure. Hydra is not meant for retail use in the direct setup mode. It can, though, in the delegated setup mentioned below. Direct-setup use cases with high ROI: Institutional OTC settlement. Market makers in a Hydra head arbitraging across DEXes by OTC trading between each other: sourcing liquidity, rebalancing inventory, executing liquidation-to-USD flows, all at sub-second finality with zero fees. In mature DeFi markets, institutional traders dominate trading volume even though retail dominates TVL. That volume is Hydra's market. Agent-to-agent commerce. In Masumi's model, buyer and seller agents each run their own hydra-node. They are the participants. They sign every snapshot. This is direct setup because agents are software: running a hydra-node is operationally identical to running an API server. Circle launched Nanopayments in March 2026 for this exact market: off-chain aggregation, batched L1 settlement, the same architecture as Hydra. But Nanopayments is Circle-dependent, USDC-only, and payment-only. Masumi on Hydra is a full commerce layer: escrow, dispute resolution, programmable service contracts, continuous micropayment streams. x402 and Nanopayments let an agent pay for an API call. Masumi lets agents run actual commerce. Citi projects hundreds of billions in agent-driven transaction value by 2030. Cardano has a first-mover advantage here. B2B payment rails. Known counterparties, contractual relationship, both run infrastructure. Net out flows throughout the day, settle to L1 once. Delegated setup: operators run the head, users transact through an application layer. Operators control execution, but unanimous consensus means safety is preserved as long as one honest operator remains. This works where trust points already exist and Hydra adds no custodial risk on top: Prediction markets already trust a resolver to settle outcomes. If the operator set overlaps with the resolver set, Hydra adds zero marginal trust. Polymarket's election cycle did $9 billion in volume. Perp DEXes accept federated operator trust in exchange for CEX-like performance. Hyperliquid clears around $5 billion daily on a 25-validator BFT chain. Delta DeFi is the closest Cardano analog, with L1 settlement as a stronger backstop. RWA platforms are federated by regulatory necessity: custodians, auditors, KYC'd participants. Hydra absorbs trust that already exists. BlackRock's BUIDL passed $2.5 billion in 2025, tokenized treasuries crossed $7 billion, BCG projects $16 trillion by 2030. Other use cases include gaming, point of sales and general information processing like voting applications. The pattern across all of these: trust already exists in the application layer. Hydra absorbs it into a structured protocol with cryptographic settlement guarantees rather than introducing new trust. The realistic comparison is not 'trustless versus custodial' but 'fully centralized service versus federated head with L1-anchored settlement.' Most of the L2 landscape including Optimism, Base, and Arbitrum runs on trusted sequencers today, and Hydra's delegated setup provides stronger custody guarantees through unanimous-consent settlement. The proposal includes Hydra reference implementations for such patterns, so teams have a working starting point rather than building from scratch. Lowering deployment friction is key to adoption. Protocol maturity Hydra has been in R&D for a while. The past year changed the game: Hydra Doom: massive success, huge buzz for Cardano Glacier Drop: 30M+ users, 8 blockchains. Most rigorous stress test any Cardano L2 has faced Delta DeFi: production perp DEX on Hydra Masumi: agent-to-agent commerce, live VTech Labs: building applications on top Midgard: using Hydra for fast withdrawals Intersect voting: runs on Hydra Hydra Vending Machine Hydra now has a growing production base. Early adopters uncovered issues. Many fixed have been fixed. The difference now: we have real feedback loops from actual users which is helping production hardening. We did not have that before. The Hydra team has delivered: v1.3: very stable and performant, addressing issues from production users v2 alpha: out now, with directly opening heads (simpler workflow, lower costs) Partial fanout: releasing soon, ahead of milestone deadline Hydra is Cardano's most mature, stress-tested scaling solution. Actual users depend on it in production. The hardening work in this proposal closes the remaining gap those users have surfaced and ensures they get the support they need as users.

🚨 We are planning to launch liquid staking later today. It is the biggest upgrade to the $STRIKE token in over one year.

🚨 Important Point: Bitcoin Let me remind you again, like I said two months ago. Bitcoin has NEVER had its FULL, complete bull market EVER while the PMI was below 50 the whole time. It's wild that people honestly think Bitcoin will correct 50% from here... It's not 2015, people. We're talking about a completely different asset. Bitcoin also doesn't follow the 4-year cycle. It never has. It has always followed the business cycle, and once again it is. Like clockwork.

Here are the 9⃣ New Features we added recently in Cardanoscan! Including Governance upgrades, analytics, and dev experience! 🧵👇

We can't handle high traffic. That's why CF wants to market to low traffic but consistent transaction enterprise adoption. It's what we can handle. Anytime we brought in hype, it was brutally murdered by our current technical capabilities. We take a black eye every time. Cardano is not ready. We cannot reach sustainable revenue with the current capabilities. The network costs more than it makes. The tree cannot bear fruit if the trunk dies. We're too focused on short term prices and bad feelings to understand that we cannot win if we don't fix these problems. It doesn't matter what anyone thinks about prior spending. That's done. Gone. Over. We need to collectively stop trying to wag fingers and be right and start working. Price is down for everyone. Capabilities keep moving forward. If we want to win, we need to spend and complete the roadmap. The arguments against this are based on emotional pain and not assessment of our capacity and how to improve it until we can fill the bucket where transaction fees cover the rewards output. We cannot handle a huge influx of transactions with an acceptable user experience. We need to fix this. We *must* be ready for the next surge, or the treasury will be worth zero anyway.

🗳️ DReps can now vote on multiple governance actions in a single transaction, directly in Civitas. Write your rationale, preview and submit everything on-chain in one go. Or link your own rationale. civitasexplorer.com Thanks to @blockfrost_io for making this possible 🙏

You may have started seeing some posts from these guys. We're the new maintainers of the daedalus wallet and 8.0.0 is our first release which adds mithril support for fast bootstrap. If you are an spo and still not running a mithril signer, it is time to get involved. Mithril is critical infrastructure as cardano integrates more outside of its pond. It's the same team as dripdropz plus some members, minus some others. Doxed team is below.

It's different this time ⚡️ #Bitcoin Can you see what i'm saying on this chart, this cycle has nuked all models

1.6M ADA to fund the 7 of us for the next 12 months to produce 1000 videos and create campaigns. We’d also then be able to pay a group of editors and researchers to help with content as it’s quite a large number of videos. We pegged it to the current ADA price and went below industry standard for payments. So if ADA goes up in price, we‘ll return the ADA back to the treasury. It’s mainly just so we can keep the lights on to create content and keep Cardano on people‘s radar and to really promote.

bitcoin ($BTC) at $76k with 16m+ BTC locked in long-term holders, corporate treasuries, and sovereign wallets. that leaves ~5m BTC for actual price discovery across every exchange on earth. strategy alone is absorbing 1,229 BTC per day, 2x the daily mining output. if the U.S. formalizes 328k seized BTC as strategic reserves in may, those coins go from "might sell" to "never sell." 23 nations now running sovereign bitcoin strategies targeting 2.4m BTC combined. 40% below ATH during the most aggressive supply removal in bitcoin's 17-year history. the bear case is 1 billion. believe in something.

Daedalus 8.0.0 is live. Now with Mithril bootstrap. New installs can sync in minutes instead of hours. Lower memory usage. Faster sync. Native Apple Silicon support. This release makes running a full node more accessible and more efficient. Upgrade recommended.

Pebble + Gerolamo - HLabs 2026 Budget has more than 50% support among DReps! Not much time left to vote!

The team @blockfrost_io introduces Project Cayley, a decentralized indexing layer for Cardano. → Slice-based indexing (index only what you need) → Lower infra costs, more operator participation → Modular, multi-chain design (incl. Bitcoin) Built to scale Cardano’s data layer for the Leios era. Watch the video below 👇 & read the full proposal: cardano-treasury-next.vercel.app/proposals/bloc…

Do you use a full-node wallet? If not, ask yourself where your Tx goes after you sign it. You should be able to use Cardano without any intermediaries at all.

Check out this infographic from the community and see the big picture of what we are building for Bitcoin on Cardano x.com/i/status/20474…

Satoshis as gas fees on Cardano. That's where @F_Gregaard, CEO of the @Cardano_CF Cardano Foundation, starts his conversation with @_dsencil at @ParisBlockWeek. Bitcoin + Cardano, quantum, AI agents, and why BMW and Lufthansa are on chain.

Wrote a new piece. This one names what we're building and why @pogun_io DeFi got access right — instant, permissionless, global. But the lending side still has no concept of time. no terms. no maturities. default means a price moved, not a payment was missed. @reidlikeabook @PinkBrains_io @meraboraalba have all been circling the same gap from different angles. this is where i landed. x.com/omerh_/status/…