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I'm super excited about the next iteration of Midnight.city we will have thousands of beta testers coming online soon and gather incredible feedback about how to improve and refine the experience and utility of the world. It's the largest and most meaningful focus group ever done. Combined with two week sprints, within a few months we'll be well on our way to a new civilization. One that's crypto native, has privacy at the core, and evolves in weeks instead of decades. I predict Midnight.city will be the most used crypto application by 2030.

Thank you to all who voted and supported the Pogun treasury proposal! We’re committed to delivering capital without compromise. The window to claim this category is open. We don't intend to leave it open for long. More to come 👀

DRep voting for the 2026 Treasury proposals has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took the time to review proposals, join discussions, challenge assumptions, ask questions, and engage throughout the process. This is decentralized governance in action: open dialogue, transparent accountability, and collective decision-making at ecosystem scale. Thank you to the Cardano community for showing up and participating.

🎉 Thank you, Cardano. The voting period has ended! We’re thrilled to share that the Consensus initiative to finalize Leios development and bring it to mainnet passed with 88% support. Thank you to every DRep who voted in favor. Your support keeps the momentum alive and brings us one big step closer to delivering this upgrade for Cardano. To those who voted No: we genuinely appreciate your feedback and the rationales you shared. We take it seriously, we’re learning from it, and it will help us improve as we move forward. Your input is valued. This is a meaningful win for the ecosystem. We’re excited and grateful to keep building and to bring Leios to mainnet. See you all soon for the testnet launch, we are aiming for June 23th. Thank you, Cardano community. Let’s keep building! #Cardano #Leios #Governance #CardanoCommunity

@MidnightNtwrk If only these whales had privacy.

@Sssebi We will win. Cardano community is unbelievably civil comparing to the other ecosystems. We will get over the bumps in the road and will improve. We are here to stay.

The only thing that breaks my heart more than the $ADA price is seeing the Cardano community fight between eachother. I want everybody to win and work together so we can show the world what a great project Cardano is.

We can do this!! 💪 Who of you hasn't voted yet? I'm here to answer any questions you might have. Just make sure you vote before this closes in less than 4 hours!

Let me share a bit of a personal story. The first time I came across @IOGroup was through a brilliant developer in Korea, someone who had previously led one of the country's most well-known blockchain academic societies and ran several popular projects. Back in graduate school, he mentioned in an interview that he wanted to build a company like IOHK, one centered around deep technical research. Even then, he understood how important peer-reviewed papers and verifiable academic research were as the foundation of a blockchain. Through him, I came to understand just how exceptional IOHK was as a company, and how deeply technical the Cardano network truly is. As we all know, this market is fundamentally a technology-driven market, and at the core of every fundamental, technology is what stands. What drew me to Cardano was exactly that, its outstanding technology, and the deep thinking and philosophy that shaped its very beginning. Lately, it feels like there's a lot of friction and dissonance within the ecosystem. But realistically speaking, IOG's presence in the Cardano ecosystem is irreplaceable. Their academic depth and engineering capabilities grounded in formal verification have produced technical breakthroughs that no other company has achieved. Put simply, without IOG's research and core development capabilities, I believe the very foundation of Cardano could be shaken. What's fascinating is that they've been collaborating with multiple companies to gradually decentralize the network's dependency on IOG itself, while also nurturing more Cardano-specialized engineers along the way. In other words, they are voluntarily reducing their own influence and helping the ecosystem stand on its own. This is an act of intentionally letting go of their own power so that the ecosystem can evolve and grow organically. I have never witnessed, in this entire market, a company willingly setting aside its power and influence for the sake of an ecosystem. I genuinely believe they are working for the long-term growth and decentralization of Cardano. In that spirit, I hope we can move forward through dialogue rather than exclusion, and through understanding and constructive feedback rather than blame. As people who are building this ecosystem together, I believe differences in opinion should not be a reason for conflict, but rather a starting point for finding a better path forward.

Cardano community is like no other ❤️‍🔥 They promise to stay engaged, to stay truth to the values they believe in and to never be afraid to voice their opinions. They are ready to have a very difficult discourse finding the path forward. Love you all. I'm sure @IOHK_Charles is proud of you all. Thank You All

Cardano is secure.. Cardano is stays running.. And Cardano has the best community of all Chains..

@F_Gregaard @IOHK_Charles Thank you ❤️

@IOHK_Charles Couldn't agree more @IOHK_Charles. We would love to host you and the team in Switzerland for this purpose. Cardano doesn't need more governance complexity or complete unity, but it does need everyone pulling in the same rough direction!

After reflecting deeply on this governance process, a few things are clearer to me than ever. Cardano is alive. The community is engaged. And that matters more than any single vote. But this process has shown me something important: Cardano's governance is real. You are not passive holders. You are owners. That is exactly what we built this for. It has also reminded me that when Cardano has needed it most, the Pentad delivered. IOG, EMURGO, the Cardano Foundation, Midnight Foundation, and Intersect have proven they can coordinate and bring critical integrations to life when the ecosystem needed it. That coordination layer matters now more than ever. So let me show up the way I should. I will be in Singapore for the Cardano Summit and I will be on stage. I am also personally committing to partially top up our Token2049 sponsorship to Title level. Being on that main stage is where Cardano and Midnight need to be heard. To the Pentad, I am inviting all of you to sit down and have a real conversation about the future of governance and how we formalise this coordination going forward. I am 100% focused on Cardano and Midnight. Always have been. Let me prove it. #strongertogether

I am more than excited for the future people in this ecosystem are extraordinary and I'm proud to be part of this community. We have so many fully commited who are not afraid to speak out without antagonizing other side. It makes me feel we are in the best place we have even been. Thank you all you are the best.

Cardano’s treasury is navigating a complex funding dilemma. Approving proposals risks added sell pressure on ADA. Rejecting them could slow development and momentum. Latest proposals and ecosystem discussions reveal the trade-offs. Here's a clear breakdown of the mechanics + potential paths forward: youtu.be/ZU3uONY9kv4 #Cardano #ADA

Let’s f*ing go.

We’re just 0.5% away from this Treasury governance proposal passing. Cardano needs more builders — and this proposal tackles the blockers devs keep naming: fragmented tooling, scattered docs, weak onboarding and a steep learning curve. #Cardano

Breaking news! With only a few hours left before voting ends, a single proposal is defining its fate by being super close to approval. The "Plutus" proposal, also known as IO & VacuumLabs: Enhancing Plutus - Performance, Correctness, and Usability, is sitting at 62.4% approval from DReps, with 67% needed to pass. These are decisive hours, and it is you, the DReps, who will make the final decision by fulfilling your role and duty to vote. The proposal seeks to fund a comprehensive improvement of Plutus, Cardano's smart contract platform, through three lines of work: greater efficiency and expressiveness in on-chain execution, strengthening formal verification, compliance and security, and a better developer experience. Specifically, it aims to reduce execution costs, expand primitives and built-in functions, improve support for interoperability, ZK proofs and multi-asset operations, develop testing frameworks for alternative node implementations, audit critical components such as the evaluator and costing, and simplify development through a new compiler and optimizer architecture. Led by Ziyang Liu at Input Output Group together with VacuumLabs, the initiative requests ₳11,877,575 and is presented as a strategic investment to make Plutus more efficient, secure, verifiable and easy to use, thereby strengthening adoption, technical resilience and the sustainability of the Cardano ecosystem. Decisive hours! Welcome to decentralized governance!

Final hours before DRep voting closes. First of all, thank you to every DRep who has already participated and cast a vote on the @IOGroup treasury proposals. What matters most is that DReps actively participate and make their voices heard. If you have not voted yet, please take a moment to make your voice heard and cast your vote.

I still think Mongolia is the perfect hub for Cardano. There are so many amazing companies doing absolutely amazing things in a place where it's actually easier to interface with officials. If we took the reputation of IO Research, Charles, and really went to work there....