Congrats to all the candidates on their participation in this election! One interesting note: the turnout in this election (139 members voting) is roughly 1/2 of the previous election (268 members voting). That's a 50% participation dropoff and is a highlight of one of the challenges @IntersectMBO faces. No matter who gets elected to the board, we all need to take a hard look at how we want participation to look like at Intersect.

See you all in Chicago at the @DigitalChamber forum. There are very important legal battles happening in the great state of Illinois with their new tax laws. Let's do what Wisconsin does best and help our neighbors.

.@Cardano_USA 👀

People-focused. Relationship-driven. That is the way to real world adoption for @Cardano. Thank you to Kevin for your ringing endorsement for @IntersectMBO Board of Directors. I am humbled by the opportunity and emboldened by your support.

It's finally live! WBBC -> WDBC✅ Really grateful for all the community support of this relaunch of our business league expanding beyond just blockchain into the greater digital economy. If you're interested in playing a role in shaping how the great state of Wisconsin regulates our digital economy, our membership is open! Sign up now: wdbc.io/registration LET'S GET IT! 🔥🔥

Dear @Cardano community, I am a candidate for the @IntersectMBO Board and I am asking for your vote. 🗳️ Two seats, eleven candidates, voting closes Sep 25 at 12:00 UTC. Who I am: I have been in this community since 2021. Through my agency @awen_online, I ran Intersect's North American Hub for nine months, the highest-engagement hub of the six worldwide. Members then elected me to @Intersect_MCC, where I wrote the public post-mortem on the hubs program. Vote → members.intersectmbo.org/das… Intersect's central challenge is legitimacy. It spends community treasury funds, so it has to prove, transparently, that every Ada delivers value. I saw this up close with the 2026 MCC budget and auditing all six Community Hubs: the ecosystem rightly wants outcomes and ROI, not activity reports. Earning and holding that trust is job one. The second challenge is participation. On-chain governance only works if voting is broad and informed, yet most members and ada holders still sit out. We have the machinery, DReps, committees, the Constitution, but not yet the habit. The third is sustainability. Cardano's core development and its open-source tooling need durable funding and stewardship that does not depend on any single company. The opportunities are the mirror image. Cardano is the first major chain attempting member-led, on-chain governance at this scale; if we get it right, we set the standard others copy. A disciplined treasury can fund genuine ecosystem growth instead of noise. My bias is toward concrete accountability: fewer and clearer commitments, public budgets and post-mortems, and tooling that lowers the cost of taking part. That is where Intersect earns its mandate. My fellow community members, please consider voting for me. Vote → members.intersectmbo.org/das…

A song lives as long as someone plays it. Software lives as long as someone maintains it. Nine years of people keeping Cardano alive in the open, arguing about it, voting on it. Let's do nine more! 💙 @Cardano #Cardano9

Ambassador @cullahmusic wrote an article about the x402 SDK to share more about this new important integration for Cardano:

I'm really excited to be working with bar centro on this series using @awen_online's ticketing platform tikit.live. bar centro is one of the last standing jazz clubs in Milwaukee. Not only are they dedicated to keeping the jazz scene alive with amazing programming like this "Chicago Women of Jazz" series - but they are adamant about giving 100% of ticket sales to the artists. Truly amazing! I am very proud to be working alongside them on this.

Great read if you want to learn more about @Cardano_CF x402 👇

One month on. While hardening Valt's wallet login we found a critical flaw, not in our code but in CardanoPress, the open-source wallet plugin many Cardano sites use. We reported it. It was fixed and credited to us in 1.36.1. When ownership is the key, the lock has to hold. Read: awen.online/go/247a054/ Collect: valt.digital

🎧 Streamers get struck for playing music. Most give up and stream in silence. The Sync.Land Streamer Dock is live. It sits inside OBS Studio and plays only the tracks you are licensed for, with the proof badged on your stream while it plays. ✅ Every licence is signed and recorded on Cardano. A receipt, not an argument. Try it → sync.land Two minutes to set up, and it is two pieces: the dock you control, and the overlay your viewers see. Guide → awen.online/news/the-sync-la…

Now that's culture