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1/ Quick encouragement for anyone building on Cardano (or any chain): most projects don’t fail because the code is “bad.” They fail because the basics get skipped. The good news: basics are learnable. 2/ Start simple: Who is this for? What real problem does it solve for a real person (not just “crypto people”)? If you can say it in 1 sentence, you’re ahead. 3/ Next: How will people actually find it? A Discord + a couple conferences isn’t a growth plan. That’s a hangout (which is fine!) but it’s not distribution. 4/ Think “repeatable path to users”: integrations, partnerships, referrals, content people search for, communities you serve (not just post in), and a product that’s easy to share. 5/ Then: trust. In Web3, trust is a feature: security mindset, audits when it matters, transparent decisions, and calm/clear communication when things go wrong. 6/ Also: make the economics make sense. If it only works because rewards are high, it probably won’t last. Build for real value, not just incentives. 7/ Team tip: you don’t need a huge org… just clear ownership. Someone owns product, someone owns growth, someone owns community/customer care. No ego... just roles. 8/ Most important: ship, listen, improve. The teams that win aren’t perfect... they’re consistent, humble, and close to their users. If you’re building: keep going. 👊

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Just a reminder to all #DeFi guys migrating your USDC/USDT to Solana or Tron – you still do not own your tokens. Circle and Tether own them. On Cardano you actually own your Cardano Native Tokens (CNTs) like USDCx or USDM.

@roberts37785761 @CryptoWendyO @IOHK_Charles I like CH. No one is universally likeable except maybe this guy...

@CryptoWendyO @IOHK_Charles Most people will stop watching right after the whining about XRP. Charles has become a liability to Cardano and Night. Great tech. Poor public presence. Ironic. Glad you interviewed him. Truth came out again.

WATCH: Charles Hoskinson explains how Midnight and $NIGHT are "radically different" from Ripple and $XRP

The Reason The Trolls, Degenerates, Merc Bots and Competing Chains hate Cardano.

Code is Speech. New report: coincenter.org/software-is-sp…

These people truly care about Cardano Today I listened to a perfectly good X Space about the Cardano ServicePlan Proposal. A lot of Cardano fanatics and brilliant minds in one place, a very high-quality discussion, arguments from all sides, and people I follow, love, appreciate, and respect did a really great job hosting that X Space. Big respect. And the topic is not marketing at all, that is not even the point, and it is not important whether we approve those funds for marketing or not. What I see, and what really matters, is that these people truly care about #Cardano. That enthusiasm is still there, still strong. People are building, people are not giving up, people are fighting for the future of Cardano, each in their own way. And Cardano will win one day, because we have people who live for that day... @Padierfind @phil_uplc @EdnStuff @ESCOweb3 @TheDr_TheDr @CSWAP_Destroy @angrycryptoshow @ADAFrog_Pool @SebastienGllmt @DamionDutch @MicheleHarmonic #CardanoCommunity @Nat_JSat @1Exit_Liquidity $ADA

@JureKaramarko Is there a link to this X Space?

Here is my interview with @CryptoWendyO youtube.com/watch?v=vRDvNe…

Really proud of what Serviceplan is putting forward in this proposal! I hope it will find the support of many. I strongly believe that communication is key for Cardano and that Cardano has so many strong foundations, that its the only blockchain who can claim to be "the blockchain for serious business" That's the reason why we decided to invest in Cardano. And that is why many other companies should invest in Cardano too. Let's spread the word! For this porposal. And for Cardano.

It will be a slam dunk if they lock in the following: qualified leads, exact conversion targets, exact release conditions for each tranche, and explicit failure/termination triggers. That would leave no questions about what the KPIs represent. They touched on these without precision. But I am very impressed that they seem to already be involved with Cardano in a significant way.

Q: Do you characterize this engagement as (A) marketing into observed demand, or (B) generating demand in a category where Cardano currently has near-zero share? 👀 This distinction matters because (A) and (B) require fundamentally different budget scales, success probabilities, and risk structures. The proposal is priced and structured as if (A), but I cannot find the evidence for (A) in the document. If (A) — marketing into observed demand: Where in the 56 pages is this demand observed? I could only identify four categories of evidence for "existing demand," and none are first-hand observations of demand for Cardano: "Enterprises need auditable, deterministic, compliant infrastructure" (p.22–23) → Inference. No primary research, interviews, or customer discovery is cited. It is an assertion about what enterprises should want, not a record of what they have said or done. "Existing POCs across stablecoin infrastructure" / "existing traceability implementations e.g. of agriculture or retail clients" (p.22, p.24) → Unnamed references. No client names, no transaction volumes, no contract values, no third-party verification. Not falsifiable. "Global RWA tokenization market forecast to exceed $10 trillion by 2030" (p.25) → Other chains' market. Cardano's current share of tokenized RWA is effectively zero — BUIDL, BENJI, USYC, JPM MMF, Polygon bonds, none on Cardano. This is demand observed on competing chains. "Target audience size: ~53M globally" (p.30, GWI data) → TAM, not pipeline. The total population holding relevant job titles. Upper bound of reach, not a count of anyone who has expressed interest in Cardano. The only concrete client reference in the entire proposal is Masumi Network — built by Serviceplan Group themselves, running at ~1,470 transactions per month (~0.00002% of Cardano network activity), an AI-agent payment use case that is in neither Phase 1 vertical (Institutional DeFi or Supply Chain Traceability). The proposal itself acknowledges this on p.15: "Many pilots, few large-scale success stories yet." If (B) — generating demand in a near-zero-share category: Then the concrete action plan funded by €2.98M needs to be evaluated as a category-creation investment. Stripped of strategic framing, here is what the money actually does: Add DeFi and Supply Chain pages to the Cardano Foundation website Run LinkedIn ads for 12 months (~€611k) and industry-press native ads (~€640k) driving traffic to those pages Place OOH billboards at airports and train stations (~€194k) Exhibit at Money20/20 Amsterdam once (€375k) Produce a small number of case studies, largely repackaged from existing Cardano ecosystem projects Serviceplan agency fees: €1.4M (47% of total) My question: is there a documented precedent where category creation in B2B enterprise blockchain — moving a chain from near-zero share to meaningful enterprise adoption — was achieved through this specific action mix (paid media + one conference + website content) at this budget scale within 12 months? The historical record of B2B enterprise blockchain category creation is difficult: TradeLens (IBM/Maersk): shut down 2022, failed to reach commercial viability we.trade: shut down 2022 B3i (insurance blockchain): shut down 2022 ASX CHESS replacement: abandoned 2022, A$250M+ written off Gartner 2024 Hype Cycle: only ~5% of blockchain pilots reach scale These failed not due to insufficient marketing, but due to PMF, integration cost, and multi-stakeholder coordination problems. It is unclear how paid media + one conference changes that equation. Either answer would materially help the DRep community evaluate whether €2.98M is appropriately calibrated. and I apologize, but due to time constraints, this question was created with the help of AI.🙏

@CryptoWendyO @IOHK_Charles Insightful and entertaining.

Cardano has cracked the code. No other project in crypto is doing what they’re doing. WE ARE SO BACK! (You should watch my full interview with @IOHK_Charles) youtu.be/vRDvNekl12k

I was not paid for any interview with Charles. However, if they would like to sponsor my channels I'd be open to it. With over 1.2M followers on multiple platforms, I'm sure I can help with exposure to new audiences.

I really like what I see. And overlap in this department is redundancy Cardano could really benefit from.

Good Morning Cardano Serviceplan Group, the marketing agency who also works for companies like BMW, Netflix, Amazon, etc. has just submitted an official Marketing proposal for the Intersect Budget process. After 1.5 years of building Masumi & becoming closer & closer to Cardano, they've decided that they want to become Cardanos official Marketing partner. Some disclaimers first: 1) I am an unpaid advisor to this proposal. Yes, unpaid. I do not get any money if it wins but I've decided to give some of my time & help Serviceplan with connections into the ecosystem because I believe that professional marketing like this is very much needed in Cardano. 2) This is a joint proposal coming from multiple different agencies from inside the Serviceplan Group. Serviceplan has around 6000+ employees. The team working on this is a different team than the one working on Masumi. 3) This proposal is not a grant or some speculative investment or so. It's an actual proposal for very specific work package that will be carried out. It's the first time SP has ever done "public pitch" like this, normally they're used to pitching in front of marketing departments of large enterprises. 6 months of work went into drafting this proposal. So please be nice, even when you have criticism. :) 4) Serviceplan is the only entity that I know of from outside of Cardano that has invested a Multi-Million dollar amount into Cardano development in recent years. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say the exact number but let's just say this: If they win this proposal + the Catalyst proposals they've received for Masumi, it will still be less than what they've invested into Cardano so far. That alone should be reason to take a very serious look at this. Now about the proposal itself: The goal of this proposal is to broadly "reposition" Cardano as the Blockchain for serious business. It's specially built so it captures Leads & distributes them into the ecosystem. The main pillars that the proposal focuses on are 1) DeFi and 2) Supply Chain. Now I highly recommend everyone for read through the full proposal, I will put the link to the PDF into the comments.

@Padierfind I'm making my way though Serviceplan Groups PDF. They have all my concerns pretty well covered. A YES seems like a no brainer. I love what I see.

This.

@InputEndorsers @SPforCardano I'm making my way though Serviceplan Groups PDF. They have all my concerns pretty well covered. A YES seems like a no brainer.

@SPforCardano The more proposals are submitted by credible players the more choice we have. Thanks for submitting a proposal, I will read it carefully.

We just submitted our budget proposal: "The Marketing-Powered Demand Engine for Cardano." Here's what it is, what it costs, and why it matters. THE PROBLEM Cardano stands on strong technical foundations. Yet for enterprise decision-makers, it's not an obvious "yes" — not because the technology can't deliver, but because they're missing use-case clarity, proof, and engagement paths. The business world sees Cardano as a respected ecosystem. Not yet as first choice for enterprise infrastructure. THE SOLUTION A complete enterprise demand generation system that repositions Cardano as "The Blockchain for Serious Business." The system operates through a three-stage funnel: Attention →Proof → Qualified Leads. Two recommended blueprint verticals: Institutional DeFi and Supply Chain Traceability — final selection to be validated with the GMC. Three pilot markets: UK, Germany, Switzerland. A central Cardano Hub serves as the evidence and engagement environment. Directly aligned with the Cardano 2030 Strategy Framework — Pillar 2 (Adoption & Utility) and Pillar 4 (Community & Ecosystem Growth), supporting core KPIs: TVL, monthly transactions, and monthly active users. THE INVESTMENT 12-month pilot. Four milestone-gated work packages — each one only unlocked when the previous one delivers. WP4 (V2 Supply Chain) is only released after the Q3 KPI checkpoint passes. Total investment: €2,978,738 (53% media, 47% agency — within industry benchmark). ADA surplus gets returned to the Treasury. WHO WE ARE Serviceplan Group — the only globally ranked agency that has built live Cardano infrastructure, deployed it in production, and holds a formal Cardano Foundation partnership. Official Intersect member. Masumi Network has been on mainnet since November 2024 with 25,000+ on-chain transactions. Independent Network of the Year at Cannes Lions 2025 (19 Lions). #1 globally on WARC Creative 100 and Media 100. 6,500 people, 40+ countries, €866M revenue. Full proposal and brochure in the reply below.👇

@mr_cata I agree. I'm making my way through the Serviceplan Group PDF right now. Super impressive!

Yes. We’ve approved to spend several times that, $100M+, in our infrastructure and development already over the last year. We need to work with a larger enterprise partner that is already familiar with Cardano and building within its ecosystem already. We’re not underfunded on builders. Never have been. We are underfunded on marketing and growth areas.

@CryptoWatcherOG You don’t abandon a garden because rain is late. You plant with the water available, tend the soil, and give growth a chance. Waiting for perfect conditions guarantees nothing happens. Same with Cardano: real builders don’t just arrive after strength appears, they help create it.

Cardano is in its worst moment possible. I wouldn't recommend it rn. Shit's gotta show strength. Price-wise and Community-wise. Price is shit and people, projects, stake pools are leaving day by day.