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Some End of Year Thoughts
...’s take a shot. Let’s take a chance.” So that’s what 2026 for us is going to be defined as. We tried the flashy stuff; it’s just not who I am. I tried. I tried to p...
Congratulations Iagon
...yers being deployed in the system, we got StarStream, and we have an incredible DeFi experience. Midnight is already live, and all the capabilities are turning on f...
Thanksgiving for Unity
... to win. We have layoffs coming. We have Hydra starting to wake up with Delta DeFi and other applications. We have amazing innovations like Starream. We have grea...
Midnight, Unison, FBI, and Tweets :)
... stuff soon. I don't want to spoil the lead, but I think it solves a lot of the DeFi problems historically that Cardano has had, and it's going to finally unstick a...
Poison Piggy - After Action Report (Thanks Pi)
...e one of those Twitter talking heads, at least do your audience the courtesy of defining your thresholds for whatever label you use and apply them consistently to o...
Newfound Unity
...out the door. To me, that’s the single most valuable thing I can do for Cardano DeFi. I commissioned a report; my people write them on the state of things in Cardan...
Surprise AMA 11/11/2025 📱
...d the idea of cooperative economics. You have to bridge traditional finance and DeFi together and create a new financial system. You have to get everybody working t...
The Crypto Media
...y dishonest. From CryptoBasics, it says, "Cardano founder blames ADA users for DeFi woes. RTVL would be 5 to 10 billion minimum." The Cardano founder has highlight...
X Questions
...f somehow, someway, Tether or Circle came to Cardano, then magically all of our DeFi problems would be solved, the price of ADA would go way up, and we’d have this ...
The Best Days are Ahead of Us
... it. They were toys. Now we have the zero-knowledge revolution. Now we have the DeFi revolution. Now we have all these amazing technologies working their way throug...
Live with Crypto Crow
... the perception of the reality when you look at Cardano as a whole? Things like DeFi Lama only register 50,000 monthly active users with Cardano, even though there ...
Brief Thoughts on Djed
...mechanism, and it’s extraordinary from that viewpoint. You have to build your DeFi around the fact that it is a peg with eventual consistency, not day-to-day, min...
Update on US Market Structure Bill
...an would grant the Treasury Department the power to create a restricted list of DeFi protocols considered excessively risky and could force an immediate halt to bip...
Hello from Las Vegas
... between the legacy financial world and the Web 3 financial world, the world of DeFi. This bridge requires risk-aware tech. It requires rational privacy and disclos...
Brief Whiteboard on CSWF
...gic partnerships or liquidity inside the ecosystem or growth. We could look at DeFi growth metrics, but I’ll leave that nebulous because it’s too long to get into....
Surprise AMA 06/15/2025
...in Cardano is stable coins and liquidity. The number two problem is getting the DeFi ecosystem fully operational. Number one is required for number two. That’s our ...
Cardano Decentralized Sovereign Wealth Fund
... know, Cardano has a disproportionately low ratio of stablecoin issuance to our DeFi. It sits a little under 10%. There’s about $33 million worth of stablecoins iss...
Surprise AMA 06/08/2025
... on Ouroboros and upgrades to Plutus. We've been working on Babel fees, Bitcoin DeFi, things like Ouroboros Paris, Midnight, and Lace. All things considered, as an ...
Surprise AMA 05/24/2025
...ing to put one of those beam things there. I’m sure we can get a beautiful high-definition picture from that. I guess you get a 3D model or something with people. ...
True Grit
...time to work together, be gracious, and get things done. We have to get Bitcoin DeFi going, achieve interoperability between the chains, and get Midnight out. We ha...
Congratulations Fluid Token
...this tenet, a frequently made query is that in any blockchain system where user-defined tokens are supported, it should be prohibited to pay transaction fees in suc...
$Libra
...ands down there. A lot of my good friends are in Argentina. The whole Bitcoin DeFi play is actually being done there with BitMEX, and they’ve been working on Bitc...
Humility
...ood friends go to prison, and seeing all the exchanges in our industry, now the DeFi space is served with costly lawsuits that they’ll have to run through regardles...
Rogan and Other Podcasts
...perience? I think they would have a very interesting conversation about Mammoth DeFi and ranch life. I've noticed something about our Reddit; it has become unusuall...
Welcome to the Plomin Era
...s. It's my life's work. We're going to keep the faith and keep going. Bitcoin DeFi is another one I care so much about. I started in the space with Bitcoin, and t...
Lace 1.19
...n’t have TS yet. And now we do! Look at that! I remember when we first launched DeFi on Cardano back in September; it would take hours for these types of things to ...
Inauguration, WEF, and Concrete
...ing to keep fighting the fight, keep innovating, and keep building. We have big DeFi coming this year. We’re going all in on scalability technology like L1 and Hydr...
Partnerships
...eat ecosystem. We’re one of the few ecosystems that has a real chance to be the DeFi layer of Bitcoin. We’re going to all the great conferences. We’re going to Bitc...
On Bitcoin
...ke nested transactions or our variant of Babble fees, it means you can create a DeFi layer for Bitcoin and pay transaction fees in Bitcoin. The revelation of this, ...
Wyoming Stablecoin
...acked stablecoins to launch so that Bitcoin users could utilize it with Bitcoin DeFi. I guess the state of Wyoming doesn’t consider Bitcoin a large or worthwhile e...
Surprise AMA 11/17/2024
...xciting initiatives. Marketing is going to be really strong next year. We will definitely be in force if we can get the budget passed at all the major conferences,...
I'm Back
...at 2025, I believe we as an ecosystem can make enormous strides in becoming the DeFi layer for Bitcoin. We can make significant progress in utilizing the budget pro...
Legacy is Eating Crypto
...all your value transfer, is occurring at that stablecoin level, and your entire DeFi economy relies on that, you can’t be the chain that suddenly loses USDC or Teth...
The End of an Era
...w. They bring together engineers, lawyers, and entrepreneurs to algorithmically define law. In the Ethereum space, there’s even a project called OpenLaw, where they...
Okonomiyaki お好み焼き
...f-chain solution is to modify the stake pool software to have tiered pricing as defined in the 2021 blog post. This wouldn't require a protocol change, but the down...
Markets and Contagion
...e next five years, the next ten years, here’s what’s going to happen: all those DeFi protocols are going to go through at least four or five major upgrades and be a...
Contingent Staking
...guys, give me 100 percent of ADA rewards, and then I’m going to invest those in DeFi, and I’m going to give you a chunk of that yield." So you get my DeFi yield plu...
Thank You
...r two weeks and am almost fully recovered now. I got COVID, and it was horrible—definitely the worst time I've had it. I think this is number three or four. Anyway...
PFP, Art, and Sharing
...onships into the NFT. This is where NFTs touch real finance. I talk a lot about DeFi versus real finance. Real finance involves standards, certification, identity, ...
Happy Sunday
...ET meets abstraction. You have intents and wallet abstraction. About 90% of all DeFi DEX transactions, by 2030, are going to be in an intent-driven format. Sixty pe...
H.R. 3633 and the Idiocy of the Masses
...underlying blockchain must be certified as a mature blockchain system. The bill defines a mature blockchain as one that has achieved sufficient decentralization, me...
AMA 05/19/2021
...r such things rolled out and deployed on Cardano. We’ve already seen a lot of DeFi applications starting to raise money and talk about their projects. I tend not ...
Midnight
... major iteration of the Midnight roadmap. Namely, we're looking at the Midnight DeFi kernel, the Midnight Passport program, Midnight with Minotaur and its future co...
Japan Tour
...ke the pentad structure next? In my view, the best direction is to focus on the DeFi ecosystem and the Cardano dApp ecosystem. We need to ask how we can make these ...
Update on Pentad
..., TVL, and transaction volume of Cardano increase, and we want to see Cardano's DeFi ecosystem thrive, there has to be good faith coordination, and people have to a...
Happy New Year
...that we take the top 15 to 20 dApps on Cardano and get them upgraded to Bitcoin DeFi, XRP DeFi, and Midnight. We also need to get them tier one listings, get them a...
Circle and Pentad
...s an ecosystem. Leos is on schedule, Hydra continues to grow, and the dApp and DeFi ecosystem of Cardano is strong. There are many ways we can make it even stronge...
Kelp DAO Hack
... tokens, and about $116,000 was taken from a holding contract. It's the largest DeFi exploit of the year. I showed some background concepts here, and you know, stak...
DApps and Cardano DeFi Alliance
... lot to talk about a lot to explain and there's obviously a significant deficits in the marketplace for people's understanding especially VCS and es...