Reflecting on my journey as a longstanding #CardanoAmbassador and the strides we've made in advancing blockchain technology across Latin America. A thread 🧵👇

Has been a great day so far in DC. We held impactful discussions with @NatGeo about a movement we are developing in the Amazon region. Once again this year, we were invited to the annual @OEA_oficial Summit with good friends from @the_IDB and @govbr to consider how new ance the environmental agenda across the Americas.

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cardano-init v0.4.0 is out 🚀

🛠️New tools:
• Plutarch on-chain template
• Pebble on-chain template (experimental)
• Lucid Evolution off-chain template
• Blaze off-chain template
• PyCardano off-chain template
• Apollo off-chain template

💻CLI:
• New tool, mapped by role
• "list" grouped by role, with tool icons
• "doctor" now checks minimum dependency versions
• Simpler --json flag (replaces --format)

⛓️Devnet:
• More reliable Yaci DevKit setup and teardown
• Tests wait for the faucet before they run

Try it out with: "npx cardano-init"

cardano-init v0.4.0 is out!🚀🚀🚀

"Cardano transactions are hard to read."

We've heard that hundreds of times. So we did something.

Every transaction on Cexplorer now opens with a plain-English summary of what happened: swaps, payments, mints, staking, votes, donations, one line per action. 🫡

DReps, your action is required.

The DRep Council has thoroughly examined existing rationales and identified a set of questions that DReps want answered.

The Treasury Withdrawal Proposal Standard includes this set of questions.

DReps, builders, and the community are all r input.

We will reach out to those interested in serving as domain stewards to ask for their feedback and opinions on using this template for their role.

Along with the template, we are providing an LLM-based tool that automatically checks whether the questions have been answered.

Having questions answered does not necessarily indicate quality. This is why many responses are flagged with the message "evidence missing."

I expect stewards to verify claims and facts, conduct on-chain analysis, assess demand, hold calls with teams, and so on.

Beyond their domain-specific expertise, stewards are expected to perform work that most DReps cannot undertake due to time constraints. At least, that is my expectation.

Furthermore, we have taken the size of the requested budget into account. We intend to implement a rule: the larger the requested budget, the more rigorous the questions the team must answer.

Securing a budget of around ₳200K from Catalyst is a significantly more demanding process than submitting an on-chain proposal requesting ₳10M.

It would be beneficial to unify standards across the entire ecosystem.

We created a tool that allows submitters to check their proposals before on-chain submitting. Once the proposal is submitted, we use exactly the same tool to provide public score.

Thus, submitters can ensure they answered all the questions that DReps need to decide.

Everyone is now invited to provide feedback on the template and join the discussion. Simply connect your Cardano wallet to leave comments on the proposal.

The mission of the DRep Council is to improve Cardano governance. Any active DRep is welcome to join at any time.

Link: drepcouncil.org/?view=internal…

Cardano Community, give these guys a follow. They’ll be a lot of the magic behind a bunch of cool things coming… 💪

Petrobras is tokenizing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on Cardano. ✈️

Our LATAM Business Development Lead, @rafaelfraga_f, joined Petrobras on @CNNBrasil to discuss tokenizing SAF certificates on Cardano, improving traceability and preventing double counting.

With each passing week, some novel discovery emerges in the field of the exact sciences. It is undeniable that this pace has quickened, for the first time, I feel that we are truly beginning a journey toward the singularity.

The DRep Council is currently working on a template for Treasury withdrawals. It consists of a set of questions that every proposal should address.

The current version of the template is based on a thorough analysis of all past Treasury withdrawals and their accompanying ed what DReps expect from proposals and the factors that influenced their decisions.

Thanks to all the DReps who provided rationales. Without them, this analysis would not have been possible.

We expect proposal submitters to use this template, which should help standardize proposals and improve their overall quality.

However, DReps have no way to enforce its use.

Along with the template, we will provide an LLM-based tool that checks whether the questions in a proposal have been answered.

All DReps can view the results, which may streamline the proposal evaluation process.

Additionally, we will apply a version of the "Triangle Forces" framework that was adapted specifically for Cardano.

This framework uses a few targeted questions to assess proposal quality from a different perspective.

The author of the framework is a DRep and our member @triangleforces.

Furthermore, the tool will evaluate alignment with the the Cardano Vision 2030 document.

The tool is currently in an experimental phase, and the template will undergo further refinements before its official release.

We welcome community feedback and will continue to fine-tune the questions and prompts.

Submitters can use the tool before submitting their proposals on-chain.

Please note that a high score does not necessarily guarantee a good proposal.

The LLM merely assesses whether the questions have been answered. The quality of those answers and the verification of facts remain the responsibility of the DReps.

A low score may indicate that the proposal fails to address key questions.

Feel free to provide feedback on both the template and the tool.

Score for active Treasury withdrawals: drepcouncil.org/?view=proposal…

The proposal score tool: drepcouncil.org/?view=scantool

Well, we still need to fix governance anyway... I hope we can have a representative system with equal voting power but short mandates like 2y elected by SPOs and DReps to end the backroom loby.... 120 to 150 candidates would be enough

I think many builders are underestimating the resistance that ordinary people will have in normalizing any more advanced agentic finance interaction, manipulating contracts, liquidity pools, etc...

just saying opening a ledger device to check for tampering is way more easier. And btw I dare anyone be showing off this on the streets in Latin America, it's fucking dumb to just advertise a wallet while you talk or order an uber....

mexicans after getting a roadster

🎉 Announcement day! 🎉

As I said while promoting the DevX initiative, I want the closest thing to the Cardano community owning our outputs. That's why I submitted cardano-init to PRAGMA (@pragma_org), and they accepted us into the onboarding process! (See pragma.io/projects/carda…).

Also, today we released a new version of cardano-init that comes with:
- Generating a spec protocol specification folder to have your specs and implementations together.
- Improved user docs and a new docs website.
- Show links to community and supporting tools of the chosen stack to connect newcomers directly with tooling builders.
- Show a pre-generation version-update notice to let you know that there's a new version.

And much more!

Thanks to our external collaborators @boraonchain and @wolf31o2 for their contributions!

Try it out!: github.com/input-output-h…

Or just run:
npx cardano-init

PSA the ledger incident isn't limited to Asia

This is a device purchased in store from an official reseller in Europe (a legitimate device doesn't have any of these cables as can be seen in picture 2)

This even seems to be an old version of the 'spy implant' even though the couple of weeks ago. The newer versions usually hide the implant by the screen so it's easier to miss

What's interesting is that this compromised ledger never transfered funds to an exploiter. Either the device didn't work or they were waiting for a more widespread usage of the comprised devices?

If you own a ledger that didn't directly come from the ledger online store make sure to not just rely on the software genuinely check by ledger but to actually open up the ledger yourself to make sure its original, again there are reported cases in Asia, south America and now Europe as well.

@MagicalTux made some useful videos on how to open the ledger and what to look for.

I was not able to attend Token2049 but I'm happy that we received support from @Cardano_CF to showcase our product! @TapDano Also, thank you lady hosky! 😄

Team Cardano.

Thanks to all who stopped by our booth at @token2049. You look even better offline.

and that’s a wrap for @token2049

it was certainly the best organised and coordinated @cardano ecosystem presence at a world stage, certainly in recent years

thousands have come to our programming set up across the venue

ive personally talked to 100+ people directly and many nd also very intrigued by just how far the space has come

learning about on chain identity, programmable tokens, projects building, projects pitching, projects hacking, upcoming network upgrades, dao run ecosystem with a supporting treasury, etc

no drama, just pure curiosity and respect

very well done everyone - this is the standard to keep from now on, settling for no less! i’ll write more why i think so in the next days

but for now, swapping a shirt and going to let lose

ciao!

First day pics