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Robert Hever

@robhever

Founder - blockchain, data, oracles, and trust infrastructure.

Vancouver, British Columbia Katılım Haziran 2021
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Robert Hever
Robert Hever@robhever·
Big shout to to Flux point on this project born from the charli3 hackathon! A native oracle infrastructure is an ecosystem enabler. The unseen background service that is necessary for a layer 1 to thrive.
Flux Point Studios@fluxpointstudio

Cardano DeFi is finally getting insurance. Aegis from Flux Point Studios is the first one on the chain. Buy a policy and oracles trigger the payout automatically. Conditions met, money hits your wallet instantly from the pre-funded pool. No claims. No delays. Most people play it safe in DeFi because one crash can wreck everything. Aegis cuts that fear. More capital should start flowing into liquidity pools and lending. TVL stands to benefit big time. Even better, Aegis sends a cut of protocol fees back to the Cardano treasury. This kind of tool is exactly what the ecosystem needs right now. Shield up if you’re active on Cardano. Would you buy coverage for your LP positions or loans?

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Robert Hever
Robert Hever@robhever·
Congratulations to the winners 👇
Charli3 Oracles 📍Reliable, Secure, Trusted@Oraclecharli3

Congratulations to the Hackathon winners! Grand Prize Winner - 20,000 ADA "Quantix" by solo entry @maxalexweber QUANTIX is a B2B delivery settlement app for raw materials. Unlike regular RWA use cases, here it just tokenizes the needed facts about goods inventory, price, timestamp, signer set, and not the goods themselves. Conventional B2B delivery settlement runs on PDFs, EDI patchwork, and post-hoc reconciliation: ERP says one thing, the warehouse another, the price sheet is a day old, and disputes are settled by whoever has the better paperwork. QUANTIX replaces that with a single atomic Cardano transaction. Github Repo: github.com/maxalexweber1/… Demo Video: youtube.com/watch?v=g3_FEx… Best DeFi & Integrations - 5,000 ADA "Charli3 Perp" by team @AscendPerps - Charli3 Perp is a minimal implementation of perpetual trading using Charli3 oracle data. It connects verified on-chain ADA/USD price feed to pipeline executed with Midnight for orders, matching, and settlement. Best Real World Settlement - 5,000 ADA "AEGIS Parametric Insurance" by team @fluxpointstudio - Aegis is automated crypto insurance that pays out instantly when oracle-verified price conditions are met -- no claims process, no adjusters, no waiting. The oracle IS the claims adjuster. Best Oracle Tooling - 5,000 ADA "Charli3-js" by team @SyncAI_Network - Typescript charli3 SDK - Agent Integration pathway Community Choice Award - 5,000 ADA "Parametrix by team @lambdac_labs - Parametric risk settlement on Cardano (hedge against real world risks like rainfall or measurable events) Thank you very much to our sponsors for making this hackathon a reality: @Cardano_CF @Catalyst_onX @DraperDragon Big shout out to the @Oraclecharli3 team who volunteered their time to host the hackathon! And lastly, thank you for the incredible support from the community to make this event a success!

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Robert Hever
Robert Hever@robhever·
This was one of the largest and most engaging events in @Oraclecharli3 history! Thank to the community for rallying and showing up!
Charli3 Oracles 📍Reliable, Secure, Trusted@Oraclecharli3

It’s a wrap! The Charli3 Oracle Hackathon concluded with 15+ project submissions competing for 40,000 ADA and the opportunity to pitch @DraperDragon ! 5 will be selected in the next week. Public is welcome to join the closing ceremonies to see the finalists! Our team was absolutely blown away with the quality of the projects. These weren’t teams simply consuming a datapoint onchain. They built complex and robust MVPs that include and are not limited to: Insurance contracts for onchain and off chain activity, price volatility protection solutions, prediction markets, midnight integrations, real world integrations, real time ERP integrations, onchain funding mechanisms, and ways to automate and simplify oracle integrations… projects enhanced our solution along the way with typescript SDK… multiple feeds per validator… and more! 🙌🙌🙌 thank you for the amazing project teams for killing it! We will promote all the projects and make them available for public review because they are just that awesome. Last but not least, big shout out to our sponsors and judges! @orcfax @USDMOfficial @Cardano_CF @andamio_teams @Catalyst_onX Also give Talha who organized and planned the entire hackathon some love ❤️

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Robert Hever
Robert Hever@robhever·
Want to make 20k ada? All you need to do is integrate our pull oracle into a cool new build or existing solution to walk away with $!
Charli3 Oracles 📍Reliable, Secure, Trusted@Oraclecharli3

Oracle Hackathon 20,000+ ada in prizes Apr 09-12 2026 Anyone welcome. Why pay for a single point of failure data bridge when you can integrate an open source MIT pull oracle directly into your app... and get paid to do it. Sign up here (Space limited): charli3.io/hackathon #cardano

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Robert Hever
Robert Hever@robhever·
@PabloAntonioBG @Oraclecharli3 Data infrastructure breaks when it scales. No oracle infra then high risk at scale. High risk at scale means no whales. No whales means no scaling. No scaling means no need for oracles. It’s not a business or technical competency problem.
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Pablo Antonio
Pablo Antonio@PabloAntonioBG·
Because it’s not about who is first — it’s about who is more competent. Tech competent ≠ business competent, and from an engineering point of view that should be more than obvious, right? Business is difficult. Now ask yourself which team has a better track record. (Never heard about the other guys btw). That might be why. I like the Orcfax team, I’m sad, but this is how it usually works. We don’t make the rules 🤷🏻‍♂️.
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Robert Hever
Robert Hever@robhever·
Data infrastructure breaks under volume. Oracles allow scaling. No oracles. Too risky to bring funds on. No whales. No scaling. No need for oracles. See the problem? Charli3 launched an oracle on Radix years ago. The founding entities sought us out and paid to have it built to support where they wanted to be. We shut down long ago on there for other reasons… but that’s how oracles are generally treated. Like pyth got treated.
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$virtuoso13 x $👹 /👁️\*
$virtuoso13 x $👹 /👁️\*@virtuoso1333·
@DanogoFinance Cuz I jus don't see how a project can be ignored like this if we absolutely needed it, if it was invaluable. State of the art. Nother problem is every1 in Cardano preaches to the choir. Information stays in the echo chamber. We need to get better at getting info out to others.
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Dano Finance
Dano Finance@DanoFinance·
It is really sad and it squarely falls on to Cardano governance to let this happen! Oracle on Cardano is a crucial infrastructure of decentralization yet after almost 10 years since launch, Cardano dapps are still running their own centralized Oracle because there are almost no other alternative.
Orcfax oracle@orcfax

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Andrew Eaddy
Andrew Eaddy@AndrewJEaddy·
@thenarrator You need to look outside of the consumer sector bro lol. PMs aren’t consumer native, their best applications exist at the enterprise level
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good@thenarrator·
prediction markets were supposed to be truth engines (decentralized and incentive-aligned information discovery on things that actually matter) as time goes on, here's what they are becoming instead: > kalshi: 76-90% of volume is sports > polymarket: sports is the fastest growing category (in the absence of big political events ofc) both platforms are now functionally unregulated sportsbooks (with arguably better UI) and imo it's about to get worse kalshi/polymarket are raising at an insane pace and getting into the high billions + when you raise that kind of capital from those kinds of investors, you don't optimize for truth-seeking, you optimize for revenue (due to investor pressure) and revenue means more sports lines, more casino-style binaries, more volume from the same gambling crowd that already uses draftkings every dollar of VC pressure pushes these platforms further from "crowd wisdom on geopolitics" and deeper into "will the celtics cover -4.5 tonight." my thesis: my biggest bet is that we'll see a true defi primitive based on prediction markets (or whoever nails the next decentralized iteration) that will dethrone both of them in the long run (probably in 2-5+ years and maybe on HIP-4/Hyperliquid) the original promise was never "let's make sports betting slightly more efficient", it was using markets to surface truth where polls, experts, and media fail. the incumbents will keep scaling but imo they're scaling the wrong thing decentralized protocols that prioritize liquidity for meaningful events and resist the gambling gravity will win the long game we know that prediction markets have product-market fit but the question is whether the platforms capturing 99% of volume today are even building the right product anymore?
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Robert Hever
Robert Hever@robhever·
Think you can build a better oracle? Show off your skills and win 20,000 ADA in prizes. Build with our open source pull oracle. charli3.io/hackathon
Charli3 Oracles 📍Reliable, Secure, Trusted@Oraclecharli3

Oracle Hackathon 20,000+ ada in prizes Apr 09-12 2026 Anyone welcome. Why pay for a single point of failure data bridge when you can integrate an open source MIT pull oracle directly into your app... and get paid to do it. Sign up here (Space limited): charli3.io/hackathon #cardano

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EC 🪏
EC 🪏@ecatxvc·
We’re roughly 45 days away from shipping V3. This is the fourth iteration of @Indigo_protocol since we shipped mainnet 11/2022 We’ve done this without a single VC or private equity dollar. Bootstrapped and fair launched. Whether you’re a regular user of Indigo or not, I hope the magnitude of dedication and sacrifice this has taken us amidst the most brutal bear market this space has seen can be widely appreciated across this ecosystem. Not many are built this way 💪🏻
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Techstars
Techstars@Techstars·
Pitch us your startup in 1 sentence. 👀
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Steph from OpenVC
Steph from OpenVC@StephNass·
Google Maps for Venture Capital. Founders and VCs, this is for you: We built OpenMap. A visual directory of 16,000+ VCs, angels, and family offices worldwide. Think of it as Google Maps for Venture Capital. 👉 Comment "map" for free access Here's what's inside: → Visual map of investors actively looking for deals → Search "investors in Paris," "deeptech VCs," "family offices" → Find intros through LinkedIn + Gmail connections → Submit your deck directly to investors If you're a VC, you should be on this map. If you're a founder, you need to know this map. 👉 Comment "map" I'll DM you the link. Make sure to follow me to receive my DM.
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Dustin
Dustin@r0ck3t23·
Terence Tao is the greatest living mathematician. Fields Medal at 31. Solved problems that had been open for a century. Widely regarded as the sharpest analytical mind alive. And he just told you the thing your entire career is built on is now worthless. Tao: “AI has basically driven the cost of idea generation down to almost zero.” For five hundred years, the idea was the prize. The theory. The hypothesis. The flash of insight a physicist chased for twenty years in a lab before it landed. That was the bottleneck. That was what tenure rewarded. That was what Nobel committees were looking for. Gone. A model can generate a thousand candidate theories for a scientific problem in an afternoon. Not noise. Not garbage. Plausible, structured, publishable-grade hypotheses. A thousand of them. Before dinner. The idea used to be the scarcest resource in any room. Now it is the cheapest. But Tao went somewhere most people are not ready to follow. Tao: “Verification, validation, and assessing what ideas actually move the subject forward… that’s not something we know how to do at scale.” Sit with that. We automated creation. We did not automate truth. We can produce ten thousand explanations for a phenomenon. We cannot tell you which ones are real. That is not a gap. That is a chasm. And it is the most important unsolved problem on Earth right now. Tao: “Human reviewers… they’re already being overwhelmed actually.” The entire scientific apparatus was built for a world where a single paper took months to produce. Peer review. Journal boards. Consensus forged over years of replication and debate. That infrastructure was never designed for what just hit it. Journals are flooded. Reviewers are buried. The filters that separated signal from noise for decades were engineered for human-speed output. They are now absorbing machine-speed volume. And they are cracking under it. Tao compared it to the internet. The internet drove the cost of communication to zero. That did not produce clarity. It produced an ocean of noise with islands of signal buried somewhere inside. AI just did the same thing to knowledge itself. Infinite generation. Zero verification. The person who can produce ideas has never mattered less. The person who can prove which ideas are true has never mattered more. That is the inversion nobody is processing. Every company, every lab, every institution is racing to generate more. Faster models. Bigger outputs. More theories. More code. More content. Nobody is building the system that tells you which of those outputs are actually correct. And that is the only system that matters. Whoever solves verification at scale does not win a market. They become the filter that all of science, all of engineering, all of human discovery flows through. The bottleneck of the last five hundred years was producing the answer. The bottleneck of the next fifty is knowing whether the answer is real. And right now, according to the greatest mathematician alive, we do not know how to do that at the speed the machines demand. That is not a research problem. That is the race beneath the race. And almost nobody has entered it.
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Robert Hever
Robert Hever@robhever·
Any founder that has sustained a web3 company, where revenue is primarily token, over the last 2-4 years while doing everything by the book... you have my respect. Especially the ones in Cardano. It's been a challenging era.
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Ben O'Hanlon 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇯🇵
Ben O'Hanlon 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇯🇵@benohanlon·
Will this be recorded @robhever? x.com/Oraclecharli3/…
Charli3 Oracles 📍Reliable, Secure, Trusted@Oraclecharli3

Want to see under hood of Charli3? Want to spin up your own oracle networks? Want to prepare for our hackathon to win 20,000 ADA? Join our free oracle workshop on Mar 24th: discord.com/events/8535255… Details 👇 WHAT: We are holding a public workshop to conduct live demos, live Q&A, and help the Cardano community interact with our oracle infrastructure at a code level. Listen in anon or actively work through our code live. Your choice! WHEN: Tue Mar 24th - 7:30am PST (1-2hrs) WHERE: Discord WHO: Anyone can join, led by Charli3 BONUS: We are creating a public listing for node operators soon, sign up early to get on the list to run oracle nodes that generate ADA, USDM, and C3 tokens. Context: Our push and pull native oracles are open source. More details here: milestones.projectcatalyst.io/projects/14000… 1. Oracle Workshop (Mar 24 7:30a PST) 2. Hackathon w/ 20k ADA to win (April TBD)

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Ben O'Hanlon 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇯🇵
Ben O'Hanlon 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇯🇵@benohanlon·
This is an interesting pivot from managed service provider to offering the rails through which oracle networks can be created, operated, and extended by the community. If you want to see under the hood scroll down... x.com/Oraclecharli3/…
Charli3 Oracles 📍Reliable, Secure, Trusted@Oraclecharli3

Since Q3 2025, Charli3 has been transitioning from managed service provider to core Cardano public infrastructure. We've been quietly working on moving code IP and governance to the community. This didn't happen overnight — it's been months in the making and still in progress. This is the biggest shift in our history. Here's where we are and what's coming 🧵

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Robert Hever
Robert Hever@robhever·
@DanielTetsuyama I’ve lost my way on the other side of the internet where the 🦞 etc etc Mirofish et. all grift lives Ill burn some ada and night to repent and contribute to the cause now
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Daniel Friedman ₳Σ 🇺🇸🇯🇵⛩️
Daniel Friedman ₳Σ 🇺🇸🇯🇵⛩️@DanielTetsuyama·
Sorry I missed the latest Cardano drama. Been busy Went to the FOODEX conference in Tokyo & got about 10 solid customer leads to onboard to Palmyra Pro Tell me what I missed, & I'll get right to being flabbergasted about whatever we're supposed to be flabbergasted about
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@DanielTetsuyama @Oraclecharli3 @ApexFusion @PabloAntonioBG @orcfax @AndrewJEaddy @thenarrator @ecatxvc