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Oh look! A video from April 2017, showing (1:36-3:30)how to CREATE A WALLET (PRIVATE KEY) & THEN REDEEM USING THE REDEMPTION CERTIFICATE Tldr No. The presale participants DIDN'T receive private keys. (They had to create it) Anyone clinging to that narrative is confused or lying

As someone who has served on the Interim Constitutional Committee (ICC) over the past year, and as a candidate for the upcoming Constitutional Committee, I want to speak directly about something that matters deeply to me and, I believe, to the future of Cardano. The role of a

A new poll is live on Ekklesia for DReps! It asks for your input on how Treasury Withdrawals should be structured if our consolidated Budget Info Action is approved. We want to hear from DReps early to help reduce friction, improve clarity, and ensure the structure aligns with

The current way we run the Cardano budget process is not ideal. Budgets were not meant to be vendor-led, but purpose-led. Having a detailed vendor proposal already at the budget stage and having them go through two approval cycles makes everything feel bureaucratic and slow.

Wearing both hats as an ada holder and Interim Executive Director at Intersect, I’ve spent a lot of time considering how best to structure Treasury Withdrawals if the Budget Info Action is approved. After many, many hours of conversation with DReps, proposers, and contributors

A single withdrawal is an endorsement of the extraordinary efforts to pathfind a budget process. This is our first approach. DReps provided excellent signal for the priority proposals that needed funding. From here, we can move forward together and fund these priorities.

Let's work together, rather than separately. The world IS watching. How we choose to fund the meaningful projects that will enable Cardano's growth matters. It matters to vendors. It matters to ADA owners. It matters for all of us. Let's choose a path that enables success.

🗳️ 39 separate governance actions is a tedious, clerical task = Nearly 2hrs of clicking for most DReps. If only dozens out of hundreds of registered DReps participate, we've traded decentralisation for disengagement. ⚡️Average # of votes cast by voters is less than 20

Sunday thoughts about the polling of options TLDR: most DReps aren't even voting. & some want to make it 39x harder than it needs to be to get through the end zone, during the first budget cycle.

Budget 2026 Thinking ahead to Intersect 2026 budgets (yes plural), it’s time to go back to the original approach that we were working towards, prior to the pivot that caused this year’s disastrous budget process. This is how it could have been: 1. With community input,

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One of the many and varied reasons I support 1 or only a few transactions. Human error and malicious actors can both add additional complexities that can challenge this process. Ryan offers an excellent solution, but it is a problem of our own making.

EMURGO supports this perspective, grounded in Kriss Baird’s experiences with Catalyst. For those who prefer 39 separate treasury withdrawal governance actions for each approved budget proposal, consider the following, which will negatively impact builders, potentially burden

For the sake of Cardano events, marketing, & other time sensitive efforts to grow the chain, please vote against 39 separate treasury withdrawals as it will slow down progress massively, disallowing the chain to compete, when needed more than ever. What’s at risk? 🧐👇🧵

Intersect Board Statement: Treasury Withdrawal Poll Outcome - message from our Chair, Steven Lupien We want to thank everyone who took the time to engage, share feedback, and help shape this process. This isn’t the first time Cardano’s constitutional budget process has been

The Tradfi and VC industry has been trying to suppress Cardano as long as possible out of preparation for what is starting to happen right now…Cardano doing what it was initially intended to do. Become the nervous system for the blockchain industry.

I feel like people underestimate how smart Liberty.Chris. actually is just because of how he talks. Guy is a soft-spoken hardware hacking savant. Should I bring him on NerdOut sometime?

Real talk. Real progress. Real fun. Gov/Dev Days is where we look forward with authentic conversation, deep engagement, and meaningful connections. Let's celebrate our successes together at Top Golf Las Vegas with a full day of true collaboration, and a great time included.

See y'all in Vegas!

What an amazing honor! It was incredible to play a part in the Constitution Convention. To see this level of recognition of what we all accomplished is breathtaking!