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The leaderlog for epoch 620 is here. We have an active stake of 66.89M with 67 blocks assigned! 🤩 Luck 🍀 at 101%! Join us in our mission for a cleaner and greener planet🌍🌳 We donate 20-30% of the pool income to reforestation, plastic waste cleanup and ocean conservation! 🙏

Our first preview testnet block using Dingo has been accepted to the network. preview.cardanoscan.io/block/4119738

Costa Rica, once home to rampant logging, has now almost doubled the size of its rainforest. They turned it all around within a generation. It can be done. Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate #biodiversity #deforestation #rewilding #solutions

Wildlife depends on trees and forests. Trees provide nesting sites, food, habitat and shelter for a wide variety of animals. From the smallest insects to large predators, everything is represented. We need the protection of existing forests and reforestation worldwide.💚🌲 🍀💚🌳

@YoroiWallet @phillip_pon That is great news Yoroi! Thank you for taking action on community feedback. 👏

A note to the Cardano community on DRep delegation in Yoroi. Following our CEO @phillip_pon's statement, we intend to make the following changes to Yoroi: ⏸️ Pausing to Get it Right We will pause DRep delegation within Yoroi. We want to ensure that when you choose a representative, you are doing so with total clarity. This pause will remain in place until we can roll out a more neutral platform for Cardano Governance. This will ensure Yoroi does not continue to grow in DRep voting power until a more balanced delegation process is in place. 🏛️ Building a Governance Hub Looking further out, our goal is to develop a robust governance centre. We want this to be more than just a menu option. We’re envisioning a go-to space for the community to stay informed and active in the ecosystem, regardless of technical background. 🛡️ Safety First, Progress Fast The DRep discovery tool is our immediate priority. With valuable contributions from @Cerkoryn on GitHub, we’re hopeful we can ship these changes quickly. As always, safety and security remain our number one priority. Please keep in mind that once the update is ready, we’re subject to Apple and Google Store review timelines before it reaches your device. We will keep you posted as we move forward.

@CryptoJoe101 Every now and then a won slot battle does pop up, but usually a won slot battle just registers as a normal block and I don't even know it was a slot battle at all.

@happystaking totally agree. I was just wondering if I was the only one who had noticed the sudden disappearance of slot battle won.

Epoch 618 has ended. We registered two slot battles, unfortunately both lost. 72 of 74 blocks made it on chain. Big thanks to all delegators for the support! 🌍🌳

@CryptoJoe101 I know what you mean and I have noticed the same. I always know when a slot battle is lost, but only sometimes when it's won because the block of the other pool might not have reached PoolTool in time. Anyway it offers transparency, but it's a biased overview.

Do you use pooltool to detect slot battles? I've noticed I haven't seen a "won" slot battle in ages, only lost, this tells me network since last update is so fast that losing pools never manage to publish their block on pooltool so we only see when we lose, but not when we win. So chances are (both me and you) are winning slot battles, but we don't know, although we definitely know when we lose them. does it even make sense?

@Hornan7 Same here. It’s a mystery to me 🤷‍♂️

Having to clean the house before the cleaning lady arrives, is that normal? Or is it just a mindset that all women unconsciously share?

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

MIND-BLOWING: Big, old trees DON'T slow down—they grow FASTER and suck up MORE CO₂ than young ones! One massive ancient giant can capture as much carbon yearly as an entire mid-sized tree's whole lifetime body. Old-growth forests are carbon super-vaults! We plant to grow tomorrow's legends... but protecting today's ancients is the real power move against climate chaos. Who's ready to defend the elders? Drop a like if you're in!#TreeVolution #OldTreesRule #ClimateAction #BreatheEasy

The leaderlog for epoch 619 is here. We have an active stake of 66.95M with 85 blocks assigned! 🤩 Luck 🍀 at 128%! Join us in our mission for a cleaner and greener planet🌍🌳 We donate 20-30% of the pool income to reforestation, plastic waste cleanup and ocean conservation! 🙏

They are clearly misleading the community and appear to be using governance power in a way that benefits the potential interests of @emurgo_io and @YoroiWallet. I think Cardano governance is starting to resemble the collapsed governance we saw with $EOS. The screenshot I captured shows the issue clearly. When you click the Governance tab on the left, the interface immediately prompts the user to delegate to Yoroi. For an average user, the natural action is simply to delegate to Yoroi. This is, in my view, a clearly improper way of inducing delegation. Delegation is meant to be a conscious decision where a delegator entrusts their valuable voting power to representatives whose governance views and vision for the ecosystem align with their own. However, delegations formed through this kind of interface do not reflect that intent at all. Despite this, they continue to insist that there is nothing wrong with the current structure. In reality, the structure of blockchain systems is still unfamiliar to many users, and a large portion of users do not deeply understand Cardano governance. Yoroi is effectively leveraging this reality, nudging wallet users toward delegation regardless of whether that reflects their actual intention. Simply put, they are using the wallet infrastructure itself to steer delegations in a biased way. The more serious issue is that the voting power accumulated through this process is then exercised as if it genuinely represents the will of those delegators, allowing them to wield enormous governance influence. Through this mechanism, Yoroi has accumulated approximately 715M ADA in delegated voting power. When combined with 298M ADA from Emurgo, the total exceeds 1B ADA, representing more than 17% of the total governance influence. This is not just significant influence, it is a level of power that can fundamentally undermine the integrity of the governance structure. The fact that they continue to defend this structure despite widespread criticism from the community strongly suggests that preserving governance power serves the potential interests of their organization. From this perspective, I will be closely monitoring and thoroughly scrutinizing any governance activities or ecosystem initiatives that may benefit Emurgo and Yoroi. As a member of the community, I will continue to speak up about these issues. History has already shown us what happens when governance power is accumulated improperly. The case of EOS demonstrated how governance structures can collapse when organizations consolidate power to serve their own interests. What we are seeing from Emurgo and Yoroi today looks dangerously similar to that pattern being repeated within Cardano. If we allow this behavior to continue unchecked, Cardano governance will ultimately be used to serve the private interests of specific organizations, and the system itself will collapse, just as we saw with $EOS.

Epoch 617 has ended. We had four slot battles, unfortunately all lost. 61 of 65 blocks made it on chain. Thanks for your support everyone!

@Cryptofly777 Vertical takeoff please, Captain Crypto 🚀

Who’s ready for a crypto bull run takeoff? 🔥

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The leaderlog for epoch 618 is here. We have an active stake of 67.04M with 74 blocks assigned! 🤩 Luck 🍀 at 111%! Join us in our mission for a cleaner and greener planet🌍🌳 We donate 20-30% of the pool income to reforestation, plastic waste cleanup and ocean conservation! 🙏

@blinklabs_io Can I try this on a testnet?

New Dingo! Mithril bootstrap, *experimental* block production, Leios & E2E testing devnet, tiered storage, Mesh (Coinbase) API, WIP mini-Blockfrost API, chain selection, 100% ledger/plutus conformance. This dog barks. Let's play. Release notes: github.com/blinklabs-io/d…

Dingo treasury proposal is now live! Links in 🧵👇 Why this matters? Cardano needs node diversity for resilience. Dingo adds a Go implementation, broadening developer access while reducing risk. Where Dingo is today: - 1,226 commits - 205,500 lines added - 48 releases - boots from genesis and Mithril snapshots - 314/314 conformance tests passed - supports Plutus V1/V2/V3, with V4 work underway What this proposal funds over 12 months: - mainnet block-production readiness - Dijkstra + Leios delivery readiness - independent external security audit - operator docs and production hardening Funding request: 6,900,000 ADA (USD basis: $2.07M, full cost breakdown in the repo) Accountability: - milestone based disbursements - funds converted to stablecoin after disbursement - independent oversight board - public transaction journal - monthly and quarterly reporting - unused funds returned to treasury at expiration If you’re an SPO, DRep or builder, we’d value your review and questions.