SPEC - The Spectrum Cardano Pool

Great news! We updated our Diffusion Staking Basket UI to also reflect additional NIGHT and ATMA token rewards! If you hover over the APY, you'll get a breakdown of the full APY details. Based on current token valuations, you're earning around 4% staking APY with Diffusion! 🔥

Yaci Store 2.0.0 is now live. Get reliable access to Cardano blockchain data, with improved ledger and governance state derivation, a new plugin framework, and production-grade performance improvements. Built to support resilient Cardano DApps. cardanofoundation.org/blog/yaci-stor…

@MicheleHarmonic Sure, UTXOs don't lock each other out but in the context of a validator I can imagine the case where you would want existing UTXOs to be interacted with in a specific order. What's wrong with business or legal reasons being encoded in a smart contract? Isn't that what they exist?

Cardano community: "UTxO are foundametally parallel design, that is why Cardano is superior" So called devs designing an extremely simple application: "why don't we force actions that have literally 0 ( ZERO ) contention to be executed sequentially" These are the same people selling you batchers as a feature and not a bug btw

The Cardano World is healing.

Proof > promises. Stig @KjosMathisen redeemed tokenized gold in-person at Pro Aurum in Düsseldorf. ✅ Next: testing insured shipping for silver to Norway. Trade fGLD / fSLVR on NBX. app.nbx.com/markets/FGLD-E… app.nbx.com/markets/FSLVR-… @finest_tokenize

UNDP has published its new flagship blockchain report. 📰 Of the 42 solutions highlighted, 21 are built on Cardano. We are proud to support this work and look forward to a continued partnership.

Midnight will power Telegram's AI for their 1 Billion users. #Cardano

You know its your coin when its locked and you can't do 💩 with it. Right? RIGHT???

Times are tough but this doesn't mean pools should have nothing at stake. Check your delegations. Ensure your pool operator has at least put up SOME pledge!

I’ve been thinking a lot about the current crypto mood while actually being busy building things that have to work in the real world. A lot of the noise right now is influencers crying about “bad sentiment” and “low engagement” because retail isn’t lining up to buy the latest recycled shitcoin. They blame the market... The cycle... They blame everything except the obvious: Retail is tired of being fed garbage. During the last bull run, almost everything pumped indiscriminately. That created the illusion that crypto was a risk-free money machine. Then reality hit. And most of what dumped did so because it never had real value. What we’re in now isn’t a collapse. It’s a filter. Crypto can stay a fringe casino, or it can grow up and become something that actually deserves mass adoption. People don’t want to be fooled anymore, so they’re stepping back, and that’s rational. Those of us who came here to build aren’t crying about engagement. We’re working. Yes, it’s harder. Yes, belts are tighter. But the opportunity didn’t disappear - it clarified. The shitcoin casino can die. The serious work stays. Changing the world was never supposed to be easy.

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People ask me all the time, genuinely: “Doc, why are you so obsessed with Midnight? We already have Zcash and Monero…” And I honestly smile, because it shows we still have a lot of education to do in this space. Look, it’s not that those networks are bad. They just solve a different problem. @Zcash @monero give you privacy at the transaction level. You hide sender, receiver, amount. That’s great… for what they’re built for. But that’s NOT the kind of privacy we need for the next generation of real applications. What we wanted in Cardano —and yes, we actually built it— is something much bigger: Privacy for the logic, the data, and the processing inside DApps. Privacy at the protocol level. Privacy so professionals and real-world organizations can use Web3 without exposing sensitive information. That’s Midnight. It’s not about hiding transactions. It’s about enabling: — Clinicians to protect patient data — Companies to handle sensitive IP — AI apps to run without leaking their models — Financial apps to comply without revealing everything — Builders to create without sacrificing safety or confidentiality People think we want “secrecy.” No. What we want is digital dignity. @midnightfdn isn’t a privacy coin. It’s the infrastructure that finally makes Web3 usable for serious, real-world systems. And honestly… this is just the beginning.

Homer J, who caused the fork of the Cardano blockchain, retired his pool with the ticker AAA. 1683 holders still delegate more than 7M ADA to this pool. Please, redelegate your ADA elsewhere.

Washington was a blast, hands down one of the most productive weeks ever, tons of fantastic meetings & great contacts that want to work with Cardano. Absolutely unreal how high quality the connections made are. Now the Odyssey continues. I'm on my way to Berlin, where we'll start next week with a bunch of NMKR/Masumi internal workshops, then host the Cardano Summit Pre-Event, then the actual Summit and our Aftershow Party. I can't wait to welcome everyone to Berlin, we have lots of things to share there.

Absolute pleasure for me to present about Blockchain and Agents at CEAL today

Had a blast talking about AI in Europe on the CV Summit Mainstage yesterday and how to fix it. TLDR; Don't try to compete with Silicon Valley & China on foundational models; lean into "boring" industries. Integrate AI to make existing workflows better. Use Masumi. 🙃

Almost exactly 1 year ago, @pixelsebi came to Zürich, sat me down and said: In the future billions of AI Agents will collaborate with each other. But they need access to money for that. They need Identity. They need even the most basic thing: A way to find each other. That's when Masumi started. He also said "we're approximately 1 year ahead of the industry with this". And guess what? He was spot on. 1 year later -> Ethereum Foundation announces Agent-To-Agent payment standard; Coinbase works with Google to announce Agent-To-Agent Payment framework... But the good news is: We haven't been sitting idly. 1. We've built an incredible team of top devs, marketers & agent developers. 2. We've built the Masumi Protcol and deployed it on Cardano 3. We've launched Sokosumi - the marketplace running on Masumi and are doubling our user count every month at the moment 4. We onboarded tons of partners that either use Sokosumi or even offer their own agents on it. Now there's only two things missing: - Speed & lower transaction costs. In order to onboard billions of agents, we can't wait minutes for transactions to be processed. And we equally need to bring the prize down as much as possible. - Identity. Agents need to be able to identify themselves, in order to create trust. We're building this. And we can build it much faster with your support. So please consider supporting Masumi in Catalyst.

Let me translate this tweet: What you see below is a picture of Trivolve Tech (Cardano Company) CEO Rahul & the Deputy Inspector General of the Police of Uttar Pradesh, an Indian State with 200 million citizens. They have signed a deal, which means the Police of Uttar Pradesh will use a Forensic Management System on Cardano & create tens of thousands of transactions per month.

Today we have a BIG announcement to share with you: We have opened a physical Masumi Space at Kudamm, Berlin. 🚀