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@zormtar @PSILOBLOX Still have a bunch of cneta

@PSILOBLOX Fucking frosty 🤣 actually forgot about that guy for a bit

For the record, Frosty’s bridge never experienced a hack 😏

@MicheleHarmonic @maxalexweber Sea gras?

@maxalexweber Bruh that's water 🙄 have you forgotten what grass looks like?

Touching some grass today 🧘‍♂️

🔥 LATEST: Volvo Group is exploring blockchain for supply chain optimization, Ivan Branco said in an interview with the Cardano Foundation.

@ClaudeDevs 2h Fable 5 Ultracode it is then until my limit resets again

We've reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users.

@joshualeestone Glad they put in limits?

Agents are like a product person’s cocaine.

@MicheleHarmonic @gravitycardano You passed the test 😅

@thecryptoodle @gravitycardano That would be permissioned

Next week, Gravity opens to the public for testing. You’ll finally get to see firsthand what a Cardano-aligned DEX actually looks like.😤 Be ready: 07.20.26

@MicheleHarmonic @gravitycardano But what if I want one? 😅

@thecryptoodle @gravitycardano No invitation needed on *public* testnet

@TheRealWeb3Kat Users follow the story and create liquidity

Here's a question: Does liquidity follow users? Or do users follow liquidity?

@crowdtrendz How can I get a subhandle?

We have integrated handles in CrowdTime. Doesn't it look great? We walk the talk and support the ecosystem.

@ZKDID_ Thanks for the update! Happy you feel better / stronger now and that you still put your time into zkdid 👌

A long-overdue personal and .zkdid® update 👏 I realise I have been unusually quiet, and I know that may be disappointing for those who enjoyed following the journey and supporting the project. I therefore wanted to explain honestly what has been happening, both with .zkdid® and in my life more generally. When I originally stepped back from social media, I did so because I had become exhausted by the toxicity. I was seeing endless hostility towards people because of their religion, ethnicity, nationality or political beliefs. Doom-scrolling was filling my mind with negativity and offering very little in return. What surprised me most was what happened after I stopped. I gave up alcohol around six years ago, but for a long time afterwards I still wondered why I was experiencing anxiety. I am prescribed valium as it has been such an issue. Never in a million years did I imagine that social media might be such a significant trigger. Yet when I stepped away, the anxiety virtually disappeared. That was a powerful lesson. I have also found that cannabis can make me feel anxious, so I rarely smoke it now. I am not embarrassed to share that. If being honest about my experiences helps even one person examine what may be affecting their own mental wellbeing, then it is worth saying. Sometimes we assume anxiety is simply part of who we are, when it may be our environment, habits or the information we are constantly feeding into our minds. Social media can connect people and spread important ideas, but it can also become an energy parasite. It consumes time, attention and emotional capacity, often without us even noticing. Life outside the project has also become exceptionally demanding. Since losing my brother, I have had to shoulder considerably more responsibility. Alongside running our property-development activities, I am dealing with the administration of his estate and an ongoing HMRC compliance review. That requires a great deal of time, concentration, professional input and money. This is not a complaint. It is simply the reality of where much of my daily energy currently has to go. My family and existing business responsibilities must remain a priority. I cannot allow those things to collapse because I have a dream, however strongly I believe in that dream. Nor am I willing to ostracise my family by allowing the project to become an all-consuming obsession. That brings me to .zkdid®. I was completely burnt out after the enormous amount of time and energy I had invested in promoting the project and pursuing the Catalyst proposal. Burnout is real. When that Catalyst route was pulled, I was terribly disappointed and initially felt that a great deal of effort had been wasted. With time, however, I began to see it differently. Putting so much energy into a single opportunity may have prevented me from properly exploring others. .zkdid® is intended to develop into a global, open and system-agnostic standard. A genuinely global identity and decentralised DNS framework cannot be strategically dependent upon one blockchain, one ecosystem or one source of funding. The multichain outlook was always important, but that experience reinforced why it must remain central. Everything happens for a reason, and I choose to believe that reason can ultimately be positive. The Catalyst outcome was disappointing, but it did not invalidate the work, the architecture, the relationships or the underlying mission. It redirected them. Development has not come to a grinding halt. Progress has continued, although at a healthier pace. I have always been completely transparent that I am not a conventional software developer. My role has been to define the vision, architecture, principles and public-good purpose of the system, while bringing together the technologies and people capable of making it real. I also always believed there would come a point when AI became powerful enough to lower the barrier between understanding what needs to be built and creating a working prototype. We are now beginning to reach that point. When time permits, I have been using AI to prototype parts of the system, examine the architecture and turn ideas into working code. This does not mean blindly allowing AI to build security-critical identity infrastructure. A system such as .zkdid® still requires clear guardrails, rigorous testing, security review, open-source scrutiny and experienced human engineering. AI can accelerate and assist that process, but it cannot replace responsibility. I have also been speaking with a very senior developer whom I worked with previously on another project. I will not divulge their identity or make announcements before anything has been properly defined and agreed, but they are extremely well positioned to help move the project forward. We share an important reason for discussing collaboration, and at present it is looking increasingly likely that we will work together. I hope I will be able to tell you more about that soon. So, although the project may appear quiet from the outside, conversations, development and strategic thinking have continued behind the scenes. I have simply been trying to recover my energy and protect my mental wellbeing so that, when I do contribute time, I can do so constructively. I do sometimes feel guilty that I no longer share everything with you as I once did. But posting, replying, debating and defending ideas can become a full-time occupation in itself. I would rather make meaningful progress quietly than create the appearance of constant activity while exhausting myself and neglecting the people around me. Every now and again I still scroll through X, and I seriously worry about some of you. Some people appear completely locked into this platform, its arguments and its emotional cycles. I do not believe that is healthy. At the same time, X remains one of the principal places where discussion around Cardano and decentralised technology happens. I am proud of those who have continued building, researching and supporting one another through an extremely difficult market. 🫂 Whether we call this a bear market or something else, I believe it also reflects damaged confidence in parts of the technology. Scams, pump-and-dump schemes, collapsed projects, political and celebrity crypto spectacles, and relentless speculation have caused immense harm to the credibility of the wider industry. Blockchain was supposed to offer an alternative to systems that had become too centralised, opaque and unaccountable. It was never supposed to become another casino in which insiders profit while ordinary people are left carrying the losses. I remain sceptical of the idea that governments will simply regulate the industry into success. Sensible safeguards against fraud and exploitation are necessary, but innovation should not have to beg established institutions for permission to exist. Equally, those of us building identity, financial or public-trust infrastructure have a responsibility to protect people. Decentralisation cannot mean an absence of standards, accountability or safety. The challenge is to develop proportionate safeguards without handing control of everything back to the same centralised gatekeepers we were trying to move beyond. That balance is fundamental to the purpose of .zkdid®. More broadly, I am concerned by the direction many governments are taking. Whether we look at the economy, national and energy security, privacy or mental health, the response increasingly seems to involve more centralisation, more spending, more taxation, more surveillance and more digitisation. Digitising everything is not automatically progress. People must retain privacy, autonomy, meaningful consent and non-digital alternatives. Technology should serve humanity; humanity should not be reorganised merely to serve technology. I am not an economist, and these are only my personal observations as somebody who runs businesses and employs people. But I know from experience that when the cost of employing somebody rises, while taxation, energy, materials and regulatory costs also increase, businesses become more cautious about hiring. A decent wage matters. People who work should be able to live with dignity. However, if employment costs rise faster than productivity and businesses’ ability to pay, entry-level roles, hours and opportunities can begin to disappear. That particularly harms younger and less-experienced workers who need somebody to give them their first chance. We need fair taxation and a society that supports people in genuine difficulty. But we must also encourage the people who create businesses, employment and new ideas. If we make productive activity progressively harder, there will ultimately be less prosperity to share. When people feel prosperous, secure and hopeful, they are more optimistic. They invest, build families, start businesses, employ others and participate in their communities. Too many young people now feel that the ladder has been pulled up in front of them. Housing appears unreachable, good employment feels uncertain and the future is presented as a succession of crises. We have to reverse that. There is still a lot of hope, but we must not become complacent, or over reliant on BIG Government saving us! Young people need genuine opportunities to work, learn, build resilience, find secure homes and believe that their effort can improve their lives. We should take real mental illness seriously and support those who need help, while also recognising that ordinary discomfort, disappointment and struggle are part of being human. It's life. Not every difficult emotion means somebody is broken. Sometimes people need compassion; sometimes they need confidence, purpose and encouragement to keep going. Usually they need a thoughtful combination of both. A degree of struggle can build character. Resilience matters. Personal responsibility matters. Supporting each other matters. We must stop searching constantly for reasons to hate, blame or become offended, and start building the world we claim to want. If you want to change the world, begin by changing yourself. It sounds simple because, at its heart, it is. ✨ I once assumed humanity would gradually move beyond war and tribal hatred. Yet today we continue to see people divided by borders, politics, religion, ethnicity and competing versions of history. That cannot be our future. The future must belong to people who choose to help one another because it is the right thing to do, not because everybody looks the same, votes the same, worships the same way or comes from the same place. Our differences are part of what makes this world extraordinary. They should give us reasons to explore, listen and learn, rather than excuses to fear and destroy one another. Thank you to everybody who has continued to believe in me and in the purpose behind .zkdid®. I may be quieter, but I have not abandoned the mission. I am taking care of my responsibilities, rebuilding my energy and continuing the work at a pace that is sustainable. When I have concrete information to share, I will share it. Until then: work hard, question what you see, protect your mind, support one another and remain optimistic. Be good to one another. Love one another. Respect one another. And remember to love yourself. Peace and Love ✌️ I'll see you around. Tobes

@Ledger Cardano for sure

pick one forever

@snj_peters @TheDr_TheDr 🐐

It is truly a privilege to have a team with men like @TheDr_TheDr. He selected and applied for this event fully on his own. It's a hackathon hosted by absolute powerhouses like Robinhood Chain and, of course, Arbitrum, with many potential key partners attending. Dr is a beast of a networker and strategic thinker. I’ve been the CEO of Xerberus since 2022 and, before that, another company called DECUS since 2019: if I were to summarise the essence of what good work as a CEO looks like for me, it’s this: Select good people Give them the resources they need Trust they will do their job well Remove ego, both in yourself and within the team

@raphael_erba 🙈

A Bright Future

@baharkarakrt 3

@CiCmediapro Copying is fine just give credit….

For all the Cardano bros: If it's open source, then it's not copying.

@masatoalexander No premium so you have to read my reply here: pastebin.com/raw/neyZa0YS

one of the pervasive lies of cardano is that it has great tech and lags because of bad marketing. in reality cardano lacks fundamental features of blockchains (and are basically impossible to properly add): 1. events are missing 2. ABIs are missing 3. data-heavy use-cases like L2s are infeasible 4. privacy / crypto-heavy use-cases are basically blocked 5. compute-heavy use-cases can't be atomic 6. state channels are missing features to really deliver 7. composition is so limited at the protocol level that most dApps live in isolation 🤭

@Bittma @Cardano Ok bye

My timeline is filled with the @Cardano community fighting with each other. All I know is the last couple years I have watched the Largest Projects and Supporters keep leaving! After years of support it sounds like it could be time to leave #Cardano once and for all.

@BTCBreadMan Sidelined?

You could make Cardano 60,000 times faster. Literally nobody would give a fuck. Launch it into the sun and be done with it

Cardano is setting up the narrative to have one of the most hated rallies in all of crypto rallies.