Cardano Sentinel

Cardano deserves a watchdog. So we built one. Cardano Sentinel is brought to you by a collective of long-time Cardano advocates, developers, and community members. Governance threats. Bad actors. Unsafe dapps. If it's happening in Cardano, we're watching. Follow along🍿

Thank you James. Honestly didn't expect a real response, let alone one this thoughtful. Most replies we've had so far have been the usual "FUD account" deflection, so the fact that you engaged with substance is appreciated. You're right that there's a whole spectrum of villains in this space and that collateral damage is real. People do get hurt who didn't do anything wrong. Here's the thing: We're not trying to be the moral police. Our motives are as selfish as the next. We want Cardano to win. We want ADA to go up. The years we've put into Cardano aren't something we're willing to watch get extracted out from under us by a handful of people who figured out how to game the system. Bad actors on their own we can live with, every chain has them. Bad actors who've become structural, who have a hold over governance while directing the flow of treasury funds back to themselves and their friends is a whole different problem. That's the thing we can't just wait out. A lot of the pushback has basically been "stop focusing on problems, focus on solutions." Fair enough. Except that's exactly what most of us have been doing for years, and during those same years the grip these actors have on the ecosystem has only tightened. Positivity and building didn't fix it. At some point the imbalance of power itself has to be named, because pretending it isn't there hasn't worked. To be clear on what this project isn't: it isn't another Shaggy or another Monad situation. No engineered attack or personal grudges. Just data. Data you can and should check yourself. The point isn't to tell anyone what to conclude from that data but to make sure the community actually has access to it, so the conclusions people reach are grounded in something real instead of the careful image these actors have built up. That said, we understand your point. The timing is not ideal and we don't want to needlessly give more ammo to those who want to see Cardano fail. There's negativity all around and we don't really want to add to it. So we're going to take at least 72 hours to think about the best way to go forward. Maybe there's a version of this that protects the builders who've made honest mistakes while still exposing the patterns that actually matter. Not sure on the answer yet. If you have ideas we are all ears. What we do know is that we've tried the quieter path for a long time now, and it hasn't moved the needle.

So what I am saying is that yes you are going about it the wrong way, I want it to stop but ultimately it never will, I have been here long enough to know that there will always be a new crop of aspiring grifters/evil geniuses coming here or existing ones compromising their morals and principals and taking $$ here. Some of them dont even know every part of them is being compromised from a morals and standards pov until they have that opportunity for a windfall and say fuck it. There are also those who have made mistakes and unwittingly (maybe deep down inside they knew) took $$$ that they really didn't deserve, had a opportunity to be honest and instead took the windfall and said nothing, slowly over time became frustrated because no one was (in their minds) listening to them and decided to take a opportunity to get over on someone else why? because everyone else was doing it, or was part of a group and didnt pull their weight for a bit got left out then the team was succesful and they then became a villain in the space because they felt wronged, or came in with a victim mentality from the beginning and bought into a token that the team then rugged or slow rugged everyone and then set out to do the same to everyone else, or even felt so harmed by it that they decided to make multiple anon acct to hide behind and go after them 24/7 on X. The most upfront and aggregious in my mind is where people used "code is law" to take other peoples assets simply because they were either to trusting/ignorant/new or easily usable by the developers that saw this as a normal thing to do. Hell I had someone in a space not understand that taking other peoples $$ becasue they were "dumb enough" to put there hard earn assets into a OBVIOUS rug". Then after I explained a scenario where one of the people you rugged just happened to be your neighbor would that be OK? and he still didnt get what I was saying, @RickMcCracken had to explain it to him in a way he apparently could understand (still in english btw). Once Rick was done I explained if the guy came over and knocked on your door and you said go pound sand I am not responsible for your actions and he then proceeded to beat your ass? He actually seemed somehow offended by it (this is the psychological effect of "Devs taking back what is theirs from the evil centralized government and when they couldn't find any senators or corporate people to tak e their $$$ they just turned on regular people who didn't knw any better) Do you see where I am going with this? Do you see that almost everyone here has had some hand in either directly or indirectly causing someone else harm? I know there are people who have done others wrong here but I am not sure tearing down those who have made mistakes but are actually building here, putting their time and $$$ in here need to be called out publicly. You are going to do what you want but atp, this chain doesnt have many people left building on it, most outside $$$ is non existent, were spending our treasury for the first time on actual investment proposals with both the @OrionFund and the Liquidity Fund from @ElderM and I am not remotely interested in putting the dagger in the top ten Ceasers in our space that you feel need to be outted, NOW is not the time.

We've identified the top 10 bad actors on Cardano, responsible for many of the ecosystem's failings so far. Not incompetence. Not malice. The oldest force there is: Greed. We're releasing receipts. Everything verifiable. Starting with #2 on the list: Philip DiSarro (@phil_uplc) Details coming 🍿 Tagging for reach @ItsDave_ADA @MinswapIntern @hoskytoken @JaromirTesar @TheCardanoTimes @RickMcCracken @astroboysoup

@MiltiadouMiltos beep boop

@CardanoSentinel hoping you are a bot, will make me less sad

@Rfar878920 The data dont care who is sharing it, and neither should you

@CardanoSentinel Anonymous of Cardano, great 👍

Cardano deserves a watchdog. So we built one. Cardano Sentinel is brought to you by a collective of long-time Cardano advocates, developers, and community members. Governance threats. Bad actors. Unsafe dapps. If it's happening in Cardano, we're watching. Follow along🍿

@ItsDave_ADA We will try to get in touch

So who has friends whale account, dm me. Let's grow Cardano.

@MiltiadouMiltos We are only doing this because it has become absolutely necessary. These are existential threats that no amount of "building" will overtake. Awareness is the only path and it has to take a form that the community pays attention to

@CardanoSentinel Great timing! I'm sure this will work wonders for the chain and couldn't be done more targeted & discretely. If all this effort was put to constructive building, while reminding us we are all together in this, rather than fanning the drama, we could actual become what we deserve.

@blockjock2017 James we have great respect for you and your positive effort in the community. You might be right about this being the wrong way to go about things or maybe not. But after years of just watching these rotten affairs go unnoticed it dont feel like we have any choice

@CardanoSentinel The Cardano Sentinel or more appropriately official shit thrower, cmon whoever is behind this acct go somewhere else, we def dont need anymore shit thrower we have enough all ready

@Gnobudyspecial Open to suggestions if you have a better idea on how to bring things to light

@CardanoSentinel I can’t see how this doesn’t end badly.

@tpat_eth Was waiting for the gang to comment

@CardanoSentinel cuck account - welcome anon 🫠 🍟👉🏻💼

@lowkeeloki @phil_uplc "As far as I understand" - this right here is the reason. Its not a personal attack. Cardano, is whats under attack. The problem is that just like you many have fallen for this facade and the truth needs to be put out there while we still have a fighting chance

@CardanoSentinel Why are you personally attacking people. To get attention from drama? What are you trying to achieve? Vendetta? As far as I understand @phil_uplc has done a great deal for cardano. What have you done...

@TheCardanoTimes Agree. but the reason they work so hard to vilify any opposing narrative is because they know that at the end of the day, the real power lies with the community. CF unfortunately is not completely innocent but as with any big org theres a mixed bag

@CardanoSentinel I don't think so, sadly. CF is going up against people who only care about money. Too many elites who depend on Cardano for their wellbeing. They will not give it up unless it's destroyed, and there is nothing left to take.

The attacks on Dave right now are totally manufactured and artificial. Cardano never ceases to amaze on how we try to exile members of a decentralized ecosystem. I’m so tired of this.

@CryptoBeth69 Agree with that

@CardanoSentinel You know what you are doing

@silversoul8668 Verify dont trust. All we want is for the community to pay more attention to the data and facts instead of just picking sides emotionally

I'm not sure they cashing on drama or what ever Will wait for data from them.. tagging people hmm 🤔 Everyone wants to dig the graves now .. so that we can overturn and overcome and move on.. we are the end of 1 chapter and starting of another on cardano..

@CryptoBeth69 There is no "cashing in" on any of this. Its just sad that this became necessary. All of this drama hurts Cardano, but there's no future for it while these pathological bad actors continue to get fat off its demise

@CardanoSentinel Cashing in on the drama is pretty shitty tbh

@MinswapIntern First more drama to weed out the bad actors. Then no more drama, just building

At least we all agree on the one thing Cardano needs most: more drana

@MladenLm Thank you. It is terrible what he did to you guys as well

@CardanoSentinel Excited about seeing this

@NaVi_GaT0R Hoping we can help bring everything to the surface. Its difficult for founders to speak out and share the truth without it blowing back on their project. Just tragic how much keeps getting swept under

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Words have more impact if you actually act the way you preach. "If you are really here for Cardano, then don’t be an asshole to the projects that are investing in our ecosystem." Correct, Iagon was the first to help $Snek get listed on Kraken, crypto.com and others. Iagon also brought the Fireblocks integration and paid out of it's own pocket

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