This is exactly why I think the pools should be retired. A huge amount of this delegation likely came from Yoroi’s position in the ecosystem, not because thousands of users independently chose the future operator of these pools. Many delegators probably forgot they’re even delegated there. Handing years of accumulated, sticky delegation to one person while saying “no action required” is the opposite of encouraging active decentralization. Close the pools. Let delegators choose again. I feel like aim taking crazy pills that I even had to type this out. @emurgo_io how about actually looking out for Cardano for once.

658 is another very lucky epoch for STR8 pool in regards to slot assignment. Nice rewards coming up for my highly appreciated stake delegators! 😍 Any question? My DMs are always open and I also operate a Telegram group here: t.me/STR8_Pool

Interesting coincidental timing alongside the discussion about increasing `k`. In my first reaction I was surprised by this move and would have hoped for an outcome leading to more decentralization. But this isn't easy. Seven pools with substantial delegation now change operational control without any stake being displaced at all. Had they instead been retired, a large amount of stake would have been forced to redelegate, but nobody could know where it would have gone, or how much of it would have moved at all. On second thought I can kinda understand the decision not to deliberately disrupt such a large amount of delegation, as protocol stability and security matter too. This was surely a tough decision. I am hopeful the new owner @MurasakiCardano will take good care of the pools for the benefit of the ecosystem, and that if he ever decides to retire them, he will do so one by one, in a way that fosters decentralization while minimizing disruption.

or Smart Compliance if you will...

I started exploring blockchains during the 2017 bull run, 9 years ago. Bitcoin fascinated me, but there wasn’t much I could actually do with it beyond holding. Then I discovered Proof of Stake and started dabbling with running infrastructure as a validator. I loved the idea of participating directly in a decentralized network to help secure it while earning passive income. Not everything I tried worked out particularly well, but somewhere along the way I stumbled across Charles’ original Cardano whiteboard video on YouTube, right around the time @Cardano was launching. I was hooked, and I never looked back. Since then I joined the ITN with Jormungandr, became a Stake Pool Operator with STR8 pool, a Cardano Ambassador, and later a DRep. What has kept me here all these years is the belief in decentralization. Seeing Cardano become increasingly independent, with looser coupling to its founding entities and more responsibility moving into the hands of the community, is exactly the direction I hoped this ecosystem would take. And there is still so much ahead. Leios promises to bring a major step forward in scalability while staying true to Cardano’s focus on security and decentralization. Amaru brings another important step toward deeper decentralization through node diversity, reducing reliance on a single implementation and making the network more resilient. At the same time, the ecosystem around Cardano keeps expanding, with projects such as Midnight becoming the first privacy-focused partner chain, and hopefully the first of many partner chains to follow. RealFi can help realize the long-held vision of banking the unbanked. Pogun can help close the loop by activating Bitcoin within Cardano’s powerful DeFi ecosystem. Nine years later, I’m still excited to be here, still running infrastructure, still contributing, and still looking forward to what comes next. Happy 9th birthday, @Cardano. 🎉 Here’s to the next nine years. #Cardano9

The Catalyst Pilot 2026 cohort is here. 12 projects bringing stablecoins, oracles, programmable tokens, and verifiable identity into real-world sectors. 40% of funding is paid up front, the rest is tied to on-chain adoption on Cardano. Meet the cohort: projectcatalyst.io/blog/meet…

So excited to bring this over the line and finally align CNA/CNT with ADA and bring unprecedented distribution to builders on Cardano. But also the opportunity to tackle some of the largest opportunities out there right now who use @FireblocksHQ

Update: @secondfiapp incident and Glacier Drop Redemptions We wanted to provide a brief update for users affected by the recent SecondFi incident. We’ve reviewed the situation and the options available to us. The Glacier Drop redemptions process was deliberately designed so that only the holder of a claim and its associated private key can redeem that claim. There are no master keys, backdoors or administrative controls that would allow Midnight Foundation to move, redirect or otherwise take control of a user’s claim. That design protects claim holders from third-party intervention, but it also means we cannot override ownership where a user’s private key has been compromised. In this case, the risk to affected claims stems from private keys compromised through the SecondFi incident. For users affected by the SecondFi incident, this may mean they are unable to safely use the wallet associated with their Glacier Drop claim to complete redemption. We recognize how frustrating this is for affected users and appreciate the community’s concern. As Midnight Foundation has no ability to alter, recover or reassign affected claims, and the compromise occurred through SecondFi, we recommend that affected users continue to follow SecondFi’s official guidance and contact the SecondFi team directly for support and next steps. We are continuing to monitor the situation from the Glacier Drop side and will share any further information that is relevant to participants.

SPOs! It is time to voice your opinion on HALVING the pool saturation, and INCREASING the effect of pledge. Looking at some recent data: Raising k to 1000 would mean 209 pools, representing 12.5b ada total (or 60% of total active stake), become over-saturated. At least 89 of those are "private" and can seemingly re-arrange assets trivially to a second pool. Thus, at most 123 pools are 'actually' affected and if none of them would act, they would lose 27% of staking rewards for their delegators on average. This creates a game theoretical inefficiency where those that stake with a "good" pool, are rewarded more, theoretically driving a strong (~30% incentive) to migrate to an unsaturated pool. Read much more facts and opinions in this document created by @Cerkoryn, @intuitionismRus, and many more behind the scenes: docs.google.com/document/d/1… THEN VOTE! There wont be a better second chance than this one, as you have to rely on DReps to make the actual decision. Because the currently live Action is an Info Action, no votes directly change a protocol parameter. Raising k would require a Parameter Update governance action, which may or may not be submitted, with any results within this info action, at anyone’s discretion.

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Agents will be doing tx between agents and between humans and agents this will be the future. Cardano now enabled ADA, stable coins and CNT for this.

People are just posting this doc as an authority hoping no one actually reads it. "Consider minPoolMargin: This proposal seems to have the support from pools of all sizes. Should be paired with a reduction of minPoolCost to 0. Researchers think minPoolCost favors Sybil attacks."

The document actually says that we should concider minMARGIN. SPOs/DREPs have acknowledged that and it looks like they do not support the rush to bottom. Good.

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