Exactly 5 years ago, I launched a top 100 NFT project on Cardano @VeggieMatesNFT Only to land square on my face... Here are the toughest lessons I’ve learned, and how you can avoid making the same mistakes 👇 1. Listen to your holders. But don’t follow them blindly. As a founder, you need to do what’s best for your project. Sometimes that means saying no to the people supporting you. Everyone has ideas, but you’re the one who has to deal with the consequences. → Rush a CEX listing? Hype leading up to the listing, then you’re at the mercy of market makers. → Token staking? An early rush followed by a slow bleed if there’s no reason to hold beyond earning more tokens. → New tech for a niche use case? You can spend a whole budget building something two people care about. Listen to the problems your community brings you. But think for yourself about the solution. A popular decision isn’t always a good business decision. 2. Pivoting does not equal quitting. Early on in @VeggieMateNFT, we had a tower defense game on our roadmap. After getting quotes for over $200k, it became pretty obvious that it would be a bad business decision. So we pivoted. People yelled. People screamed. People called us scammers. Then another project came along, spent the money on a tower defense game, and the results reinforced why we’d walked away. Could we have handled the expectations better? Absolutely. But spending $200k just to say we delivered would have been a stupid reason to spend $200k. A founder making a tough decision and being transparent about it can actually be a bullish signal. You want someone who can recognize a bad bet before they spend all the money. 3. Never forget the people who stuck around. About four years in our Discord was a ghost town. But a few people still showed up every day. Those people will always hold a special place in my heart. Before we launched @soladafun, I made sure they were the first to hear about it. Not because I had to. Because they believed in me for years, even when there wasn’t much to get excited about. Everyone is going to be cheering for you when you're winning, but remember the ones who were cheering you on when you're down. 4. Don’t be afraid to fail. This is the most important one. You’re not judged by the number of times you fail. You’re judged by the number of times you succeed. And the number of times you succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times you fail and keep trying. The same people burning you yesterday might be cheering for you tomorrow. You can’t let either decide whether you keep going. Failure is inevitable. Quitting is a decision BONUS: Be yourself. I used to be timid. I held back how I felt. I worried too much about what people would think. Then I stopped trying so hard to please everyone. And funny enough, people liked me more. When you try to be a people pleaser, you end up as bland as plain toast. Don’t let anyone steal what makes you unique. That’s what will separate you in the long run. Three years ago, I almost gave up. And if I had, there would be no @soladafun. Five years in the trenches. Still digging. What’s a lesson you had to learn the hard way?

Dual token reward pairs are LIVE! Reward your holders in their two favorite tokens. Holding just be came 2x more fun.

Top 5 tokens by trading volume in the last 24 hours. 1. DEXY 2. SER 3. MISS 4. BOLT 5. CLOVE

If I were building a memecoin on @soladafun right now here's exactly what I would do: 1. Build a website 2. Build some form of utility using Claude Code 3. Put my name behind it Thank me later.

Cardano has now a Social launchpad like Fomo, It also allows user to trade with both sol and ada. Only Huge Respect to @beastives_ for bringing fun again to Cardano. @soladafun party haven't even started yet, at 500k MC it looks like a sleeping giant. I can easily see this at 15-20M and Higher in few days or weeks. Only few people know about $SOLADA. Mostly from Cardano only, wait till we wake the OGs and SOL trench soon. If you're seeing this you're early. What are you waiting for? Come trade with me on Solada now Ref Link: solada.fun/?r=6evmy7cd

ADA on-chain is alive again. Volume back. Fresh plays. Real action. New platform I’m watching: solada.fun Every day new tokens bond. Degens eating good.

Someone tried to scam me this week. Here's what they did and this is how you can avoid jeopardizing your entire project 👇 First off, as with most scammers, they pretended they were my friend. They slid into my DMs, offered to help, and played the good guy card. In fact, we even got on a phone call, had a conversation, and they offered to help fix our platform. So they asked me to send my code to them. No keys, no risk, just purely for the good of the community. Sounds great, right? Well, my mom told me to be weary of random internet strangers. And this guy just kept asking for the code and pushing and pushing. Something just didn't sit right with me, and I've worked too damn hard to put my project at risk. So I didn't send anything, and I kindly let him know that I didn't want to put our project at risk. Of course, he guilt-tripped me about it, but thank God I made that decision. Within 24 hours, I got a message from him: a .txt file. I copied the text and sent it over to my dev to look at. Fun fact, he didn't mean to send me the file. So I asked him about it and he said, "Delete that. It's just for order flow." Yeah... sure buddy... We looked through what he was working on. It had notthing to do with order flow. Only to find out that this guy was maliciously trying to attack our system and extract liquidity from our users. So I called him out on his BS. He then tried to gaslight me and say that I'd misunderstood and that he was just trying to defend against these types of bad actors on my behalf. Yeah... sure, buddy. He got caught in one lie and tried to cover it up with ten more lies. Once a liar, always a liar. So here's the moral of the story: I know Web3 moves very fast. Trust me, I've been under more pressure in the last 10 days than I have in the last 10 years. And it's so tempting to go for the quick fix. But the lord only know what this guy would have done if I was stupid enough to share my code with him. However when you have real people's money on the line, you can't make rash decisions. This is a warning to everybody: beware of who you trust, keep your circles tight, and don't let anyone ruin what you've worked so hard to build.

Great article from @songoncardano about $SOLADA songmarketcap.com/cardanonew…

This has to be the most bullish chart across all coins SOLADA 10+ token bonds in 7 days 2-3 token have crossed 300k mcap Few above 500k mcap 100% Rewards for holders Solada burn every single transaction made Sitting at 2 million mcap in ada Which is hardly 400k usd mcap

Strike just named $BOLT among the projects building on top of them. Memecoin that copy-trades and buys STRIKE. That's us. More coming. Good luck to everyone in the hackathon!

Top 5 tokens by trading volume in the last 24 hours. 1. SER 2. SURFY 3. MISS 4. BOLT 5. CLOVE

🚨 REWARDS UPDATED 🚨 $BERP JUST LEVELED UP! 💰100% of $BERP royalties go straight to $BERP holders, paid in $PERP! 🟢Fueling token buybacks and making the ecosystem stronger than ever. 🔥$BERP & $PERP holders will be eligible for WL spots in our upcoming Robinhood mint! The rewards are growing. The ecosystem is getting stronger. Powered by @soladafun⚡

2.69M Market Cap in just 9 days. Over 68,000 ADA in rewards. Who's having fun?

Up only season on Cardano? 👀 SnekFun token $SOLADA just climbed over ₳2M MCap 🔥

Are Cardano CNTs dead? About six months ago, I asked myself this question. I was looking through my portfolio on the heels of @TapTools going under, only to find my whole portfolio underwater. In fact, some of my positions were worth less than the ADA fees 🤣 I went searching to figure out who was still active. Of course, $SNEK was still around, and their chat was buzzing. But everywhere else I went seemed like a ghost town. Then something caught my eye. I actually remember being on the phone with @cryptodramz, and I asked him... What's going on with $COCK? It looks like they're still cookin. And their chat is going off. Don't they know CNTs are dead? So I did what any degen would do and bought a little bag. And now I regret it... Because I should have bought more!!! You see, when we get back into the bull run, you're going to hear all the old names and a bunch of new ones come around. Everybody's going to talk about how they've been around and blah blah. But I was watching when everybody was asleep. These mfers at $COCK stay hard. Bear market? Bull market? It doesn't matter. They stay cookin' And that's the type of community we need on Cardano. Because tough times don't last but tough people do.

What ticker are we buying today? 👇

Isn’t @soladafun doing a great job @IOHK_Charles ?

8 days. 600 users. 5,000,000 ADA in volume. Please tell me again how meme coins bring nothing to Cardano? People ask why I keep promoting more meme coin launches. Because I'm a capitalist. And I believe incentives drive innovation. Here's what people don't understand... Meme coins are all fun and games until they're not. Yes, most meme coins are different iterations of fart jokes. But every now and then, one comes along that completely changes the game. Memes are part of the fabric of our society. They bring people together. And sometimes those people build something bigger than the joke. Look at $SOLADA. 8 days ago, we launched on @snekfun most people looked at it, thought we were a joke. 600 users, 52,000 ADA in rewards and 5,000,000 ADA in volume later, look at what's happening. People are launching. Creators are building. And from Solada came a project like @bolthestriker. A copy trading platform integrated with $STRIKE . REAL LIFE UTILITY. Within days, it reached a 500k market cap and is probably heading for millions. This is the type of innovation I'm talking about. One creator building something that gives another creator the opportunity to build. And this is why I'm going to keep advocating for more. Does every meme coin turn into something useful? No, of course not. But every now and then, someone comes along and makes you rethink what's possible. I'm a builder at heart, and I want to enable other builders. The bigger our ecosystem, the more builders we will attract. More ideas. More experiments. More chances for someone to build something that distrupts the space as we know it. Ultimately, that's what I'm here for. We keep saying we want people to build on Cardano. Well the time is now!

You asked. We listened. In the last 24 hours the Solada team has shipped 54 upgrades & improvements. More details in 🧵👇

It’s been a week, Solada.fun is printing $ADA rewards for platform users and tokens holders. Bullish af