I’ll start with saying I am not knowledgeable at all with this stuff. Just looking to see some opinions from people who know more than me.

Was handing over decision making to the community a bad idea for Cardano? I heard Charles say in an X space yesterday that all of the IO researchers will leave if they don’t get the treasury funding approvals. He just tweeted it as well. Thats kind of a big deal if true right?

We could debate the whole Charles/IO take my ball and go home attitude but if it’s a real thing that they need the money to continue development of the ecosystem and its being withheld …thats scary for those with big bags right? Is there anyone capable of filling those shoes and carrying Cardano out of situation it’s in if that happens?

Imagine if the CEO of a major company said hey everyone we are running out of money to continue developing this tech and might give up…id imagine current investors would hop ship…potential investors would run away…and I mean the big players/partners not just the average “hope I get rich off this” investor.

Like I said I’m no expert just looking for opinions…is the ecosystem able to really win with that sentiment? Cause I see that and it sounds like a holy shit moment to me when the founder is saying hey we might have to give up. I wanna reiterate my shock…I compare it to a Fortune 500 company and hearing that come from the main guy…yikes could you imagine?

i mean they always spread lies about the Cardano blockchain especially in cryptocurrency subreddit, i barely know who the founder of xrp is , when they seem to be very interested about Cardano ..

what really happened ? i cant even post a similar post there as they removed it .. lol

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While US SEC prepares to allow blockchain-based tokenized stock trading, I hope Cardano is prepared as well and not lagging behind.

Foreign investors would be more than eager to invest in stocks of top US companies without cross border restrictions and vice versa. Companies want their stocks traded.

Being able to invest in tokenized stocks of top US companies anywhere anytime safely would make Cardano very popular among US companies and foreign investors around the world.

I’ve always been very tired of the banking the unbanked narrative focusing on Africa, South America, and the 3rd world….who really cares. It demonstrates limited vision and missing the points of the global economy. The exports of the 3rd world would be well when US economy is strong.

This would be the stablecoin opportunity for Cardano.

I believe Cardano wallets will be way more active with the chance of investing in tokenized stocks.

Do you agree? I am open to critical discussions.

Hello, my readers and everyone interested in Cardano and blockchain governance.

Date: 19 May 2026

Voting Power: ₳ 780 744

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Today - many votes. Here is my complete list of votes:

1 . [OriLife × TonFarm] Identifying 180 Million Durians Without Physical Labels

Voted No.

Reasoning: After reading I don't see the reason to support this project, I think there are much more interesting and crucial.

2 . The first node in the browser; a Cardano USP

Voted No.

Reasoning: While the idea looks interesting, I don't see the need to spend 1 mln $ on browser node. Who will run it? SPOs, Dapp developers and technically educated enthusiasts have all the necessary conditions and skills to run the node as it is now.

3 . Pebble & Ecosystem maintenance: TypeScript core of Cardano

Voted Yes.

Reasoning: If in brief: TypeScript is important as one of the most-used language among Cardano developers, so I decided to vote Yes.

4 . Cardano Vision 2026: Human Centred, Scalable, Post Quantum Secure - IO Research

Voted Abstain.

Reasoning: I wanted to vote "Yes", because anyway IO did the most Cardano-related research work. But the huge budget of 32916000 ADA, which is now (at the moment of voting) more than $8 million dollars made me to choose Abstain.

5 . Cardano dOSPO and OMF Program

Voted No.

Reasoning: 12 million ADA is huge amount. I think such and similar project should seek the smaller and modest funding via Project Catalyst and go through the process of community checking, reviews and voting.

6 . Scalus: Cardano’s Application Platform for Building, Launching, and Scaling

Voted No.

Reasoning: Big amount and the Treasury is limited. Once again I Ithink such and similar project should seek the smaller and modest funding via Project Catalyst and go through the process of community checking, reviews and voting.

7 . Eternl: Path to Sustainability (2026-2027)

Voted Yes.

Reasoning: Eternl is well-known company in Cardano ecosystem. While I mostly use other wallets now, I remember my good experience with Eternl, especially using Dapps, etc. The budget is relatively modest comparing with other Treasury withdrawal proposals. Additional plus I see in transparency with providing information about Catalyst proposals which Eternl team won, and the idea to return Ada to the treasury if the price increases. So if in brief - I'm confident that existence and development of Eternl will be beneficial to the Cardano ecosystem.

I'll get back to you in few days or few weeks.

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Cardano-based Cuban Founders Fund

Hi Everyone !
Has anyone had experience with Strike Finance (strikefinance.org)?
I actually made a deposit on the dapp, which is already signed bit still pending on-chain, converted to USDM, but has not arrived.
No response from support after days.
They have a Discord community but no public support channel and no email support.
Is this normal?

Thanks for help!

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