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Tuesday Tango with @jonahkoch @BeRewt and @Cerkoryn about an Explorer, a X post, a flowchart, Leios, phalanx, zkHEROs, and the positive outcome of asking a question. x.com/i/spaces/1vOxw…

Time to check in @consensus2026 !!!

@Seomon4u @jrv97_velazquez Not rejecting talented and qualified ppl that are willing to donate their time and expertise for one. #2 - Catalyst Circle, hehe #3 - end self-nominations

@QuasarSure @jrv97_velazquez What would be better?

Intersect membership fee should be raise to 50-100 usd. It is too easy to game the system with 10 usd. You have voting power even dreps have to pay 500 ADA currently, Just found out about someone asking why the kyc for the 20 people he brought in was delayed. You invest 800 USD. You get 80 votes, you secure a voting seat in the committee. You get 6000 ADA as a member, 9000 ADA as a co chair and 12000 ADA as a chair. You sit in 2 committees because you are allowed to. You 4x-8x you investment. Thats literally incentivizing corruption. It may damage intersect image temporarily to accept that reality but long term it will improve its efficiency. For those that say we don’t get value for increased membership price I leave you with this message I got: Please fix this issue @JBriggsLondon and intersect team.

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WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE: “Bitcoin is an extremely important innovation, but not in the way most people think. Bitcoin's real innovation is a globally verifiable proof publishing at a certain time. The whole system is built on that concept, and many other systems can also be built on it. The block chain nails down history, breaking Orwell's dictum of 'He who controls the present controls the past and he who controls the past controls the future'.”

@jrv97_velazquez KLEPTOCRACY Thats literally incentivizing corruption.

Intersect tweet of the day award 🏆

Most of Cardano DeFi liquidity sits fragmented and underutilised. Atlas changes that. One unified stablecoin vault powering perpetual markets across: $BTC $ADA $ETH $XRP and eventually CNTs like: $SNEK $IAG $WMTX and more. No fragmented pools. No isolated liquidity. Just one shared liquidity engine scaling across all markets. Perps are the killer app.

@blinklabs_io @MicheleHarmonic @TheRealWeb3Kat @UtxoSaint How's the saying go? We built an airplane while flying it instead of building an airport or something like that or a race car whilesriving it, so not a road. We built into nothingness it seems.

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.

It's a grave error for Cardano to continue to withdraw significant amounts of ADA from the Treasury at these prices for non-critical development and infrastructure. ADA is down -65% in the last year and current chain revenues are abysmal. How can we justify continuing to allocate Treasury resources to the same areas we have been, and if you're in favor of that, can you explain how that spending will improve Cardano's economic activity in the next 12-24 months?

dReps need to have a North Star what we want to achieve in Cardano. Each dRep could have own north star. Ultimately what increases transaction count, more stakers (nothing wrong with buying and staking ADA), more investments, more TVL? Learning from other ecosystems looks like people want mainly smooth DeFi: - smooth UX and dApp experience (e.g. lowering minUTxO, transaction chaining) - USDC(x) supported with good exchanges support and low slippage on DEXes - at least 2 well working bridges (e.g. wormhole, wanchain, etc) - perps and yield opportunity in general - good prediction market - speed (Leios) and finality (Peras) - gasless / micro transactions of sponsored transactions New Narratives: - BTC DeFi (beaming back and forth), e.g. Bifrost. BTC collateralized loans - Formal Verification to capture unhappy people from Ethereum DeFi, others, hacks will only increase with Claude Mythos on those chains - Privacy with selective disclosure (Midnight?) - Agentic AI + blockchain, agents paying each other, transacting, having wallets - x402 (hard competition with more centralised cheaper blockchains) - attestations for AI on blockchain (@fluxpointstudio) - Automatic Yield Earning, e.g. ADAM (@fluxpointstudio), using Claude Code and AI Agents to earn yield - DeFi Kernel as alternative to AMM DEXes (more capital efficient) - Digital Product Passport (DPP) - a very serious non DeFi use case I don't think more users are coming because of (my opinion): - 10 plutus languages (Aiken is decent enough) - 10 cardano node implementations Some diversity is ok but it has limits I think. As everybody is complaining that lots of treasury requests are coming, I look at this differently, there is a lot to choose from, in fact maybe too little. Do you prefer to have less choice or more choice? Imagine in the future not only we have this amount of proposals but also some cheaper, some more expensive for the same "business problem". #Cardano

From my vantage point a lot of proposals currently are not really needed at the moment or are way too expensive. I won't name them here. I believe this is really the moment of truth if Cardano Community dReps can manage treasury of this size with the domain knowledge and not via some popularity context. Please do not forget in 2026 we have Claude Code / Codex and with Spec Driven Development a lot of code can be generated with 1 / 2 professional / experienced engineers. What is especially cheap is copying something done once into another language. What is hard is innovating something for the first time, especially production delivery of it. We need AI engineers / companies that respect treasury and new times. What majority of focus should be is especially such proposals that improve technically blockchain to unlock new use cases or make smooth operation of it (e.g. Leios, gasless transactions, minUTxO reduction, etc) as well as proposals that clearly are all about driving more users to the chain or the ones that are here to make their life smooth (DeFi Liquidity Proposal). Even in those cases it is important to assess costs and if proposal actually promises delivery of PoC, just 1 year of funding or a full working product. The fine print here is very important. All these should be priced totally differently. PoC these days you can pretty much get from a vendor almost for free (not production code, vibe coded), of course all depends on the project, 1 year of paying of dev gives no promise of what is delivered and what is not delivered, and full production working software with all sort of assurance different tests (unit, property based tests, integration tests) should be priced yet differently. Project like DeFi protocols should primarily finance themselves from token sales not from treasury. Either you will be very successful and will have product market fit or you won't be. Tokenomics must be baked in the usage of the protocol. #Cardano

I've published the article about our governance. The core issues: ① Voting power as an Asset ② DRep Zero-sum game ③ All Against All These dynamics drive governance concentration and stagnation. weekend reading for 1.2k words long👇 coffeepool.jp/notes/cardanos…

Literally all of the people that brought me to Cardano have already left the ecosystem. 💔 Most of the people I’ve tried to bring in have also already left the ecosystem. My mentors and friends are withdrawing. I don’t know what to even do cause at this point I feel like an outsider still even tho I’m one of the last ones left using the chain… 🤷‍♂️

🗓️5/4 日本時間23:00から！】 カルダノ財団の「ラウンドテーブル・トーク」に参加させていただくことになりました😊☕️ 「DRepのガバナンス参加」を中心に、ガバナンスをリードするコミュニティメンバーと皆さんと意見交換する討論会です。ぜひご視聴よろしくお願いします👍

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