A few months ago @strikeperps submitted a Treasury proposal for 9M ADA to deepen platform liquidity. The ask wasn't for a grant, it was structured as a productive deployment of Treasury capital, with the principal + realized yield returned to the Treasury after 12 months Strike already had a functioning product, users, significant volume and revenue when the proposal was submitted. At the time, they reported $1.13B+ in cumulative volume, $3.25M+ in LP profit and $1.16M+ in protocol revenue Had the proposal passed, today the Treasury would currently be sitting on approx $20,000 USD in profit while still retaining the underlying capital. One of the concerns raised was that the ADA would be sold, potentially creating sell pressure. Well, in the months since, Strike introduced the ability to deposit ADA into the platform as liquidity without selling it. So here we are, now with the benefit of hindsight. We said NO to one of the only teams in this ecosystem with demonstrated success and the ability to deliver results. At the same time, we keep approving large withdrawals that constitute ADA permanently leaving the Treasury. We are spending the Treasury instead of managing it and that (imo) will end up being a grave error for Cardano.

In 2026, if you are still buying into projects that pay staking rewards in their token, you are NGMI

I would rather miss out on profit exiting a project at the first sign of trouble, than get caught holding a bag of hot garbage because I was too emotionally attached to potential to see reality for what it was. 99.99% of projects fail, the odds are not in your favor. GM

3 months it took me to get back here. Pain, tears, hard work, and moments where I legitimately wondered if it would ever happen, because that’s how much this injury hurt. I fought tears getting back on the field tonight. Super grateful to feel the ball at my feet again. I love this game ⚽️

There’s levels to success and one of them is being in a high-octane space so you can capture demand 🔥 Strike fast

Founder goes silent for months Random in discord: STOP FUDDING! Crypto, in a nutshell 😂

I have a question regarding the @Cardano_Prime initiative. They've now completed a Cardano DeFi Ecosystem audit that has identified areas that need to be addressed. But some of these areas have already been supported by the Treasury. So my question is: how will historical investments be factored into forthcoming recommendations? Before additional funding is deployed, will there be an assessment of how much the Treasury has already spent addressing that gap, what outcomes that funding produced, and why the gap persists?

Literally nobody thinks "I can make money on Cardano" People are in crypto because they want to make money. They do not care about the tech or decentralization. This is why we see the traction moving around to the newest, shiniest thing. It is what it is.

Liquid staking, choice of stablecoins to claim, denominated in USD from trading activity on @AscendPerps Also has the feature to auto-roll your rewards back into $ASCEND Gud tech 🔥

Cardano has spent a long time optimizing for the blockchain and not enough time optimizing for economic activity. PoS, the eUTXO model, native assets, formal methods, decentralization, governance, research, scalability work, etc have all been core focus areas. In contrast, the L1s that pulled ahead aggressively competed for developers, stablecoins, liquidity, trading, lending, payments, consumer applications, interoperability, institutions and most importantly: USERS Cardano has treated adoption as something that will emerge from building superior infrastructure rather than something we needed to deliberately engineer. It needs to be easy for builders to build and users to transact. We need stablecoins, liquidity, distribution and applications people WANT to use. We need to realize that these things cannot come second to the technology, THEY ARE THE POINT OF THE TECHNOLOGY.

Hopium is the worst thing about crypto. It creates a protective environment for bad actors. Holders want a project to succeed and they filter all information through that lens. financial incentive → belief → rationalization → suppression of criticism → reduced accountability → more room for bad behavior. Bad actors don't even need to manufacture their own protection because their community does it for them. Make sure your "conviction" in a project hasn't rendered you unable to scrutinize it.

So let me get this straight...you can be disqualified in Hyrox for spitting but you're allowed to poop yourself, be covered in said poop, potentially cover others in said poop, finish the competition, and that's allowed...

In crypto, sometimes we have warped expectations for what "success" looks like. Strike is, by all accounts, a remarkably successful startup business that any founder would be proud of. I am proud to have witnessed the journey, which has included growth, challenges, wins, and lessons. The startup space is harsh, the crypto startup space is even harsher. Celebrate your success, you've earned it @sz8ng 👏

Strike's copy trading feature has been live for a few weeks now and is already generating volume for the platform! Users can copy the best traders on Hyperliquid directly. More features, more options, strike fast ⚡️

A credit score, but for how well your BS detector works in crypto 👀

The price of $ASCEND is up 130% against USD over the last 30 days. Not ADA, USD. Mainnet is live, revenue is there, it's a growing business (not a concept of one). We talk a lot about value creation, this is it! @AscendPerps

A project green-flag is when you can scroll the timeline and find that the majority of posts are 'now' based. > we've done this > we've added this > xyz is now live > this has now changed It's not filler content or announcements of announcements, its about the business!

A good question to ask yourself if you are evaluating your crypto portfolio is this: Am i "betting" on where crypto might go? Or am I "betting" on where it already is? Perps don't need a thesis about future demand because it's already here. Strike fast ⚡️