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1/6 Can you already send or buy cardano:native through #WhatsApp? ChatterPay says users can now send ADA and stablecoins through messages. But the public evidence does not yet support calling this a fully verified launch. And buying ADA is a different story. 🧵
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5/6 Convenience also changes the risk. The account is linked to a phone number, creating exposure to SIM swaps and WhatsApp takeovers. The bot reads transaction instructions and may share message content with AI providers. chatterpay.net/policy/
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6/6 The story is not three billion potential users. The real test is how many transfers work, what they cost, and whether users can recover their wallet without depending on ChatterPay. The experience becomes easier. Trust does not disappear; it simply moves elsewhere.
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Cardano Insights Lab retweeted
Next week, in Boston, we'll share how community involvement via credentials is the next frontier, with blockchain systems running behind the hood, seamlessly, as a well-oiled machine that in the forefront makes authentic human interactions possible. @blockchainwk
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Cardano Insights Lab retweeted
Sometimes you do not enter a space because you already know enough. You enter because you have the curiosity—and the nerve—to learn in public. Waiting until you feel completely ready is often just a very elegant way of never beginning. I arrived at Piece of Pie with far more questions than answers, embarrassed myself a few times, learned an absurd amount, and ended up doing things that, twelve weeks earlier, I did not even know how to name. 😂💻 I did not win a prize, but if Piece of Pie had rewarded the people who didn’t know a damn thing when they started, I would have swept every category. 🤣🤣🤣🏆 And perhaps that is a pretty decent victory: entering without knowing, enduring the discomfort, and leaving as someone different from the person who arrived. 💛🚀 #PieceOfPie #Gimbalabs #LearningInPublic #BuildInPublic #LearningByDoing #CILMarketBridge #Web3Journey
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I’m very happy to see CIL Market Bridge featured in Cardano News. 🥹📰💛 This project grew from a very simple belief: before choosing a technology, organizations need to understand the problem they are actually trying to solve. Sometimes blockchain is relevant. Sometimes it isn’t—and that answer matters too. 🧭🔍 Thank you for taking the time to explore the idea and share its story. 🚀✨
$ADA @JuanitaJaramill Builds CIL Market Bridge During Gimbalabs’ 12-Week Piece of Pie Hackathon via Cardano News👍 songmarketcap.com/cardanonew…
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It was an honor and a privilege to participate in the Piece of Pie Hackathon by @gimbalabs alongside 20 other builders and projects: @devfreeguy — SkillSwap @yugudap — DevMemory @DavidTimi_1 — Mosaic Cardano @Opa007i — The Quest @0xGIDHUB — Tixano @Haulink_ — Haulink @0xxxIaN0 — Doba World @IamHarrie — Beni @everydaylewis — TRACOM-CREDENTIALS @_armanabid — ChainTask @GameChangerOk — NeonSoup @ogleksb — Next .Ai Protocol @real_winni3 — 3rike Mobility @mobrsys — CAP: Cardano Analytics Platform @cedufy — CogiKids @mhiztagab1 — Book-Worm AI @Xeeban — Murmurations .ai @newman5 — Builder Season Playbook @minustenexdev — Cohort15 @Kamarudeen22205 — Accordiax And Cardano Insights Lab (CIL). Different ideas. Different builders. Same spirit: learning, testing, building in public, and turning ideas into something real. Thank you @gimbalabs for creating this space. #Gimbalabs #PieceOfThePie #Cardano #BuildInPublic #hackathon
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After this marathon —sorry, hackathon— one question is hard to avoid: What’s next? CIL Market Bridge has already moved from an idea to a functional beta. Now a new stage begins: • testing with more real users • improving the flow • refining the result language • adjusting the payment path • documenting what we learn • continuing to turn business confusion into clearer technology evaluation The demo is not the end. It is the first serious starting point. Built through the @gimbalabs Piece of Pie journey 🍕 #Gimbalabs #PieceOfThePie #CILMarketBridge #Cardano #BuildInPublic #hackathon
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Cardano Insights Lab retweeted
🎉 Piece of Pie Celebration Join us Thursday at 14:00 UTC on Zoom as we celebrate the end of the Piece of Pie Hackathon. No pitches. No judging. Just builders sharing what they built, what they learned, and what's next. Everyone is welcome. Please let us know if you plan to attend. 📍 Zoom link in the Gimbalabs Discord. #PieceOfPie #Gimbalabs #Cardano

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Who the hell let a journalist into a hackathon? I joined Piece of Pie with questions, almost no coding skills, and far too many browser tabs. I left with an app, a story, and a place in the Yearbook. Special thanks to @newman5, our last-minute payment savior. The “touch of soul” was real. @gimbalabs decodingthecode3.com/2026/07…
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From a question to a functional beta. Grateful to be part of this Piece of Pie season with Cardano Insight Lab 🍕 Thank you @gimbalabs for the space to build, break things, learn in public, and keep going. Now: final demo mode. 🚀
Ladies and Gentlemen: The builders - and their Products - in this season of Piece of Pie Hackathon sponsored by @Cardano_CF Cardano Pie @devfreeguy -> SkillSwap @yugudap -> DevMemory @DavidTimi_1 -> Mosaic Cardano @Opa007i -> The Quest @0xGIDHUB -> Tixano @Haulink_ -> Haulink @0xxxIaN0 -> Doba World @IamHarrie -> Beni @everydaylewis -> TRACOM-CREDENTIALS @_armanabid -> ChainTask @GameChangerOk -> NeonSoup @ogleksb -> Next .Ai Protocol @real_winni3 -> 3rike Mobility @mobrsys -> CAP:Cardano Analytics Platform @cedufy -> CogiKids Builder Pie @mhiztagab1 -> Book-Worm AI @Xeeban -> Murmurations .ai @newman5 -> Builder Season Playbook @minustenexdev -> Cohort15 @Kamarudeen22205 -> Accordiax @CInsigthLab -> Cardano Insights Lab (CIL) Real User Pie @0xGIDHUB -> Tixano @devfreeguy -> SkillSwap @Opa007i -> The Quest Feedback Pie @mhiztagab1 -> Book-Worm AI @Xeeban -> Murmurations .ai @Opa007i -> The Quest @0xGIDHUB -> Tixano @newman5 -> Builder Season Playbook @Haulink_ -> Haulink @minustenexdev -> Cohort15 Check them out in the 2026 Piece Of Pie Yearbook: gimbalabs.com/piece-of-pie-y…

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Cardano Insights Lab retweeted
I’m here to report that one of my best documented impulsive decisions made it into the Piece of Pie yearbook. 🥧 It started as “let’s see what happens.” It ended as “oh damn, it actually happened.” Thank you, @gimbalabs, for making the adventure officially documented.
CIL Market Bridge made it into the Piece of Pie yearbook. 🥧 Which means there is now public evidence that I voluntarily got myself into this experiment, survived it, and somehow delivered something functional. The project started from a very simple question: what if, before selling blockchain as a magical answer, we started by understanding the business problem? That question became CIL Market Bridge: an early beta that helps non-technical users explore whether blockchain actually deserves to be considered, or whether what comes first is something more basic — clarity, coordination, better records, a more sensible commercial path, or a much simpler solution. I built it solo, with many questions, several bugs, rebellious payments, questionable screenshots, and a respectable amount of “breathe, Juanita, breathe.” Also with a lot of learning, a lot of stubbornness, and that dangerous kind of curiosity that sometimes gets you into trouble… but also leads you to build things that did not exist before. Here is the project in the @gimbalabs yearbook: gimbalabs.com/piece-of-pie-y… I am not sure this was sensible. But it was real, it was mine, and I finished it. 🤍 #PieceOfThePie #Gimbalabs #Cardano #BuildInPublic #CILMarketBridge
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CIL Market Bridge made it into the Piece of Pie yearbook. 🥧 Which means there is now public evidence that I voluntarily got myself into this experiment, survived it, and somehow delivered something functional. The project started from a very simple question: what if, before selling blockchain as a magical answer, we started by understanding the business problem? That question became CIL Market Bridge: an early beta that helps non-technical users explore whether blockchain actually deserves to be considered, or whether what comes first is something more basic — clarity, coordination, better records, a more sensible commercial path, or a much simpler solution. I built it solo, with many questions, several bugs, rebellious payments, questionable screenshots, and a respectable amount of “breathe, Juanita, breathe.” Also with a lot of learning, a lot of stubbornness, and that dangerous kind of curiosity that sometimes gets you into trouble… but also leads you to build things that did not exist before. Here is the project in the @gimbalabs yearbook: gimbalabs.com/piece-of-pie-y… I am not sure this was sensible. But it was real, it was mine, and I finished it. 🤍 #PieceOfThePie #Gimbalabs #Cardano #BuildInPublic #CILMarketBridge
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Cardano Insights Lab retweeted
We are celebrating the builders who showed up, shared their progress, kept going, and turned ideas into real projects. The 2026 Piece of Pie Yearbook is now live, highlighting the people and products that made this builder season what it was. 👇 gimbalabs.com/piece-of-pie-y… #pieceofpie #gimbalabs @Cardano_CF
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CIL Market Bridge started as a question: What if businesses could explore blockchain opportunities without needing to understand blockchain first? Today, that question is a functional beta app. Still early. Still imperfect. But real. As a solo non-technical builder, getting here has been part product work, part communication work, part stubbornness, and part “please let this deploy.” 😅 Next: demo. Built through @gimbalabs Piece of Pie. #Gimbalabs #PieceOfThePie #CILMarketBridge #Cardano #BuildInPublic
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Cardano Insights Lab retweeted
As the 2026 Piece of Pie Hackathon comes to a close, we’re creating the Piece of Pie Yearbook—celebrating the builders, projects, and products that came out of this year’s hackathon. Coming in the next day or two. 🥧 #pieceofpie #hackathon #cardano
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