Big Cardano Ecosystem News Update, 14th April 2025

00:15 Check your staking wallets
01:23 DDJed Stablecoin Portal Was Broken
02:51 Iagon Ecosystem Growth
04:51 Nuvola Vola 0.2.0 Update
06:26 Cardano Prediction Market
08:26 Ada Asset Index (ADA10) Coming
11:09 Gero Dashboard Updates
12:08 $4M in Minswap DAO Treasury
14:15 Fluid Tokens Boosted Staking Guide
16:51 $PALM Token is Launching
18:01 OTC Trades on Cardano with VyFinance
20:13 Revuto Crypto Debit Cards for Subscriptions
22:41 Get a Web3 Job. Book.io Are Hiring

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All right, guys, another Cardano news update to start off your week. It is the 14th of April 2025. I’m Peter Buie and let’s get into these updates. But before you do, make sure you hit that thumbs up, like, subscribe, notification bell on your way in. Let’s get into these updates. Now, the very first one here is just a reminder for all of you out there that are staking in the Cardano ecosystem. Make sure you are staking to a pool that is active. Have a look at your wallet. Have a look at what pool your

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actually delegated to and you may see that the status of that pool may be retired. And if that is the case, you aren’t earning any of your ADA rewards. So make sure you check your wallets, make sure where your state is still active and that you are getting those returns. Another thing that you may need to look into as well is if you’re delegated to a delegate representative, that’s a D rep. This is the whole whole governance side of the Cardano ecosystem.

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And if you’re not delegated to a D rep at this point in time, you won’t be able to withdraw those rewards. You still earn them, but you won’t be able to withdraw them and sell them on the market or trade them for something else. So it’s something else to keep in mind. Make sure you are delegated to a staple and also delegated to D rep. And if you’re using any of the popular wallets out there, you should be able to do all of this quite easily. All right. Now let’s have a look at some other ecosystem updates. And this one here is around DJed.

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the stable coin, the over collateralised algorithmic stable coin on the Cardano blockchain. This one here has had a little bit of an issue with its front end interface over the last week. And this is because of some filtering that was, supposedly some filtering that was happening in the interface where it would restrict access to certain users. And this became problematic because it meant that users couldn’t convert their ADA over to stable coins or vice versa.

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And it wasn’t a popular thing at the moment. Everyone thought that DJed may be dead at this point in time and wasn’t being supported. But what we could see that there were a lot of front end issues being reported and they have been fixed. But they stated here that it automatically texts and blocks certain addresses it deems potentially problematic, which may have prevented some users from accessing DJed XYZ. A number of addresses were mistakenly flagDJed.

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But this issue has now been resolved. So if you are in the DJed ecosystem, check this one out. You may be just purely trading DJed against ADA. And if that’s case, you probably weren’t affected. But if you’re providing collateral for this particular stablecoin, you may have been affected. But all the issues should be resolved as of today’s recording. But overall, I think it should be all working as reported today.

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Now this one here is a little bit of an older update, but this is Iagon’s April update and it’s good to step back and have a look at some of these progress milestones that these big ecosystem projects are having at the moment. And Iagon with the DeFi, not the DeFi, the DePIN Play, the decentralized physical infrastructure, they’re doing storage and compute now. Have a look at these stats here. So key highlights from March last month, total storage surge to 24 petabytes.

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It’s a massive 134 % increase. Huge amount of I.G. tokens being state jumped to 66 million. That’s incredible as well. 90 % growth. Subscriptions more than triple to 314, making a 208 % increase. No storage grew by 17.6%, reinforcing our global network of contributors. This is brilliant growth stats. And hopefully we’re halfway through, essentially halfway through April at the moment. We’ll see April’s growth stats.

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And also we have upcoming nodes being provided by Iagon as well. We have these cyclone nodes that they’re bringing out and they’re being delivered hopefully this month. So we see a lot of them hitting the market. A lot of service providers will be using those. They’ll be in their hands and they’ll be providing even more storage capacity. I myself also have one of these cyclones hopefully coming very soon.

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and I’ll be able to provide some more storage for the network and earn some of the rewards for that. I’ll be doing videos about this as well. So if you’re interested in how you can provide storage to the network and earn some revenue, earn some rewards, I’ll be putting them up on my channel. So make sure you subscribe so you can find out more about that. But I gone overall, absolutely fantastic stats. It’s really good to see.

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You can see the APYs dropping a little bit, dropping quite a bit because more people joining the network. So the early adopters here are the ones that are definitely winning out. Now Nuvola is a project that is also playing along with the deep end space and they are providing a lot of the infrastructure out there for users that can’t do all of this technical side of things and provide their own physical hardware and whatnot and operate these nodes. Nuvola allows you to purchase their tokens.

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and then stake on their platform and then you can be earning a share of their hardware that they put up. So that’s the idea that they decentralise the knowledge and the technical expertise that are required to actually be a part of this revolution. Now they are working on the Volta DevNet. Now this is all the tools and all these extra things that they need on top of their platforms to make all this really easy for anyone out there. And they’re building the tools and

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Tech behind it all you can find out more about this as well on the vola documentation so they’ve got the a nice little problem statement here that talks about this and you can get a better understanding of how all this works. There’s a lot of these different compute decentralized compute decentralized storage and you know if you’re using one or two or three of these providers it gets a little bit complex and if you’re providing you know tech.

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and service for all of these, gets a little messy as well. So they are trying to make that process a lot easier by having a centralized interface and tools all around it. So Voila, check that one out if you’re on the tech side of things and you’d be able to find out a little bit more about Nuvla, what they’re doing there too. Really cool stuff. But Dagger Markets, these guys have been doing phenomenally well. They have over hundred markets or

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100 things that you could potentially bet on on their platform at the moment. Try and make a prediction and hopefully you can earn some extra ADA revenue out of this. If you have a look at their TVL at the moment, they’re currently ranked 18th in the Kadana ecosystem with just under half a million in TVL on their platform. They’re going really well since launch earlier this year. And if we have a look at their platform, this is what it looks like. These are essentially all the bets that you can place against the various

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various decisions that have been put up. don’t know the technical terminology for this, they call one of these, but you can see here, you can place a bet. Will Kraken list SNK in April? It’s either yes or a no, and you can place your bet. If you put a no here by the end of this particular time here, which is 19 hours, you may, if it’s a no, then you can get a 1.64 X of your ADA that is added into this particular bet.

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So it’s a nice way of using the Kodana ecosystem, using your ADA, it gives it something to do and you can easily earn a little bit extra revenue here, an extra 1.64 X of whatever you put in. Of course, you know, if you put in a massive bet here or those ratios will change. So there’s a bit of math behind how all that is calculated, but try it out, like do something small, like put in two or three ADA and see how it goes to get a better understand how it works. And this is something that we

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kind of need to not necessarily this platform, but overall adoption and usage of the Cardano ecosystem is something we need to push where got a lot of stakers. We’ve got a lot of holders of ADA, but we don’t have a lot of activity at at some times of people actually using the platform and using ADA to on various platforms like this. So check this one out. It’s a very easy one to use. All the links down below for you guys. Now this one here I am super excited about, and this is Cerebus’s first

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Index vault and this is the ADA 10 this is going to be the top 10 ADA tokens within the ecosystem and Simon Peters here talks about the actual vault itself so let me just play this one for you guys.

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Very, very soon. When Metera launches, very, very soon after that, the index walls will go live. We will go live with an MVP of the ADA 10. There will be still some limitations in the beginning of the Metera protocol. We will not be able to add or remove tokens from our main set. However, we will add that a few months afterwards. But that doesn’t stop us from launching an initial ADA 10. And we’re very, very excited for that.

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Um, we played around with some new additions to our risk ratings and, um, very nice, uh, uh, financial modeling. And let’s say I’m just excited to finally, finally get out the, the eight and 10. And now I don’t know which day that will it be exactly, but pretty much after the, the IDEO, I’m pretty positive that they had the Du Bois will, will have a good one. And yeah, I’m super excited for that. Yes. And I’m super excited for this one as well.

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If you haven’t checked out what Zerubus have to offer or what Metera has to offer with their indexes, I’ll put links down below for you guys so you can find out a little bit more information here. But essentially what happens here is you’d be able to buy the ADA 10 index by Intuit and that is a representation of the top 10 projects that Zerubus have indexed. So it’s kind of like buying into the S &P or the NASDAQ.

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their indexes as well, representing a huge portion of US entities. And in doing so with the A to 10, you get a representation of the top 10 performing Cardano projects. So this is a really good way to get into the ecosystem if you have no idea what’s going on, if you don’t know what to buy, just buy the top And usually those top 10 tokens are performing

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very well over a long period of time. So that’s the idea and premise here. And I can’t wait for this one to come out. I do love the idea of indexes reduces the amount of research and work that people need to do in the ecosystem overall to maximize their gains. So this is definitely something to look into. Links down below for you guys. Jared Dashboard are always working on their wallet. This is one of the really nice ones in the Kadana ecosystem. They’ve got a mobile experience and desktop experience as well.

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They’ve always gone for user experience and making the whole crypto journey much, much easier and safer for users as well. One of their brand new features here is their brand new on off ramp provider that allows you to buy and sell ADA directly within the wallet itself. And this is with guardian.com and they also have their off ramp integration with MoonPay. So if you are using a Cardano wallet and you like a nice way to on and off ramp,

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into the ecosystem, this is a good option for you as well. They also have a bunch of other updates within their wallet as well. And you you see these updates every, every month. So there’s a bunch of new ones here and there. So do check out their wallet if you haven’t seen it in a while. The Jera wallet guys constantly building in the Kadana space. So awesome work guys. Keep it up. Now this one here I thought was quite interesting and this was a Dow vote on the Minswap Labs ecosystem. So

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Minswap DAO has a massive treasury of over 4 million. I believe that’s 4 million USD with the DAO registration in the Marshall Islands underway. Great. So they’re actually legalizing their DAO in the Marshall Islands. This is a very common place for many crypto projects to incorporate themselves for the friendly regulations that are there. So this is a very big step forward for the Minswap.

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ecosystem, the DAO being registered in the Marshall Islands. Absolutely amazing stuff. Now, the Minswap DAO can soon deploy its funds into DeFi protocols to earn yield and grow the ecosystems. I think this was a legal aspect that they had to complete to make this happen. So this is really exciting. So the DAO at four million may deploy their liquidity into stablecoins, may deploy their liquidity into various projects they believe in.

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This is really exciting stuff. The Dow isn’t just made up of ADA, it’s also made up of other assets as well. You can see here total assets 12. So it’s 12 different projects that have gone through their platforms. A lot of them from the liquidity bootstrapping events, the IDOs that go through their platform and they own a portion of those particular tokens as well. So this is really nice to see here and hopefully we do see more value of this particular

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treasury increase over time as well because now they can earn some revenue for it. Maybe it go back to the stakers and holders of mint tokens. We don’t know quite yet. I don’t have all the details, but this is definitely something to look into. The 4.34 million here that you can see in the Minswap DAO. You can check out the wallet address as well. I’ll put links down below for you guys so you can have a look at it. You can see exactly what’s in it and how potentially Minswap will grow that massive treasury over time.

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So awesome work, Minswap. Now talking about boosting your rewards and boosting revenue and opportunities here, Fluid Tokens, amazing stuff. I can’t stress how hard these guys work coming up with new ideas on how to actually earn revenue. I have a full tutorial course on Fluid Tokens, how to use it, the boost the staking, liquidity pools, all sorts of things that the Fluid Tokens team have put together. This is the specific course here, course guide around

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boosted staking and how boosted staking works and how you can take up take up that particular opportunity to earn extra ADA rewards. But they have a nice visual here of how to go through it, the different APRs that you can earn from providing getting boosted state, providing liquidity and and getting that boosted stake as well for governance or whatever it might be. So this is a nice little visual guide. And like I said, you can go through my course content here. It’s all completely free. You just need to

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Jump onto the learn Cardano dot I O website and go through all this course material and you learn how to use the fluid tokens platform. Now the also put in some new features here and when you provide liquidity to the platform itself, the lenders there would give up their voting power and staking rights. And that was a nice thing for the boosted staker. So, so the idea is that you give up your, your staking rights and voting rights so that other people can pick it up.

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And then they’ll give you the rewards for it. you pay a fee for essentially they might give you an extra 10 ADA per epoch or something for whatever staking rights you have. Now here you have now the option to keep your delegated staking and voting rights, your voting power. But that’s not all. Borrowers will be able to borrow from multiple lenders in the same transaction. So this is a nice optimisations of the platform. So the lenders.

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have now control about what happens to their liquidity and the borrowers can now borrow from multiple lenders on the platform, making a much more cost efficient process on the platform. Awesome stuff from the fluid tokens team. Links down below if you want to learn more about it. I will have more videos coming up about how to optimize your yields and ways that you can boost your stake rewards, earn more revenue on the Cardano platform. There’s lots of different ways of going about it.

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And I think it’s about time that it more of that stuff and knowledge is shared. So I will put them out. Make sure you hit that like, subscribe notification bell and I’ll keep you guys up to date with all of that stuff. Now this one here is from the palm economy. Now I do have a lot of posts to go through about palm. I won’t go through them in this video. I’ve got another one coming up that talks about it in more detail, but their palm token. This is from Palmyra, the whole ecosystem around the palm stuff.

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Their token is going live on Minswap on April 14th, which is today, but I’m assuming US time. later today for me and you’ll be able to trade Palm. So if you were staking their ISPO, if you participated in their IDO, if you are bullish on their Palmyra and the RWAs, the real world assets and commodity trading that they’re doing, this is the time to get your tokens. If you were staking

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And in that ice PO then you should look up the details on how to actually get those particular tokens into your wallet because you may be interested in selling or buying at this particular point in time as well. So do check out those details. I’ll put all the links down below about this. And like I said, I do have a more detailed video coming up about everything that’s happening in the palm ecosystem. And you just have to subscribe to keep up to date with that. This one here, this is the I listened to this X space with Stephen.

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From the via finance team and he was talking about OTC trades or over the counter trades on Cardano and this wasn’t really something that you could see happen all the time. It’s I guess it’s a thing that isn’t very common, but now you be able to do larger trades with other users directly on their platform with the less slippage and more customized deals.

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So now you can put up a particular trade for someone else. Maybe you’re talking to them in person or you’re talking to them over Discord or X, whatever it might be. And you come up to a particular agreement and say, hey, I want to buy a thousand ADA worth of a token at this price. And you may negotiate that price, that particular ratio, and you can put it up on their platform. And then the other counterparty can fulfill that particular transaction.

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and essentially do that trade without impacting the price of it on the liquidity pools because it’s not public because it’s a private on chain transaction users aren’t affected by the price fluctuations that may have happened. So this is a really nice way of going about doing this and not having impacts in terms of price impact impacting the market or having big slippage because you’re doing it on the

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So this is a nice new feature that the Vi Finance team are bringing out. So this is really cool stuff. I believe it still is it’s just around the corner yet. So it’s not quite here yet, but do check out their ex feed and join their community so you can find out when that is actually happening. Now this is for like it’s focused for the larger traders. So you know for the likes of us, maybe it’s not a usable feature at this point in time.

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Maybe when you start trading more and you start earning more, you will take advantage of things like this. But for big traders out there that are looking for something like this, it is just around the corner thanks to Vi Finance. Now, another thing that’s just around the corner and the guys from Revu2, Vex, he’s an awesome CEO. He’s very passionate. He knows his stuff and he’s been working with regulators to make this all possible. And this is on May 27th.

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Revu2 will officially launch Revu2Pay. So this is subscriptions with all sorts of things around crypto wallets. So they’ve been trying to work on this for a long time to make the debit cards at supporting fiat and crypto for subscriptions for a really long time. So now you can get one of their debit cards. You can fill it up with ADA or whatever it might be and use that to pay

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Your subscriptions like Netflix Spotify and all those other things so it gives you a lot of control over your subscriptions but then also gives you the ability to use your crypto earnings directly on these platforms too so this is really really cool stuff now I don’t know if it’s launching worldwide I don’t have the details around that but I do know they’ve been working with.

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EU regulators so they may be launching in specific countries in certain areas of Europe first before they roll it out to other countries. Now I know the project has had a lot of criticism in saying in regards to how long it’s been taking to get this stuff done but regulation is hard. Having these crypto payment cards is very hard. I know other projects that have been working on it for just as long if not longer.

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only to have it all taken away from them and make it not possible anymore. So they’re taking the long road as well, making sure everything is correct so they can actually deliver on this. thankfully there are other projects such as Revu2 still working on getting these particular cards working in the ecosystem for crypto users. And I would happily use this one if it’s available in Australia or

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anywhere that I can actually take advantage of it. So this is awesome stuff from the Revu2 team. When May 27th does come around, I will be doing more of an in-depth review of this and hopefully Vex does a little celebration party or something. I don’t know. It’ll be good to see and chat to him again about this one as well. It’s a long time coming. So congratulations Revu2. Now the last one here, this is a bit of a shout out for the Book.io team or Stuff.io team. They’re hiring.

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They’re trying to replace Ben one of their diligent and awesome team members I believe he does the social media side of things but it’s gonna be a hard person to replace but they’re looking for infrastructure engineers senior backend engineers with the rust art directors for their I guess their their books and AI generated artwork that they do and other collateral around the book IO and stuff I ecosystem and of course their social media manager here but if you’re interested in working in.

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the web three space. This could be a really good opportunity. They’re based in the US, so you need to be preferably working in US time zones or EU at least. And you’ll be able to look up this particular opportunities here at book.io slash careers. So the book I O team always doing some amazing stuff. I’ve got my book I O hat hang on. Let me just get that. And there we go. So that’s probably as close as I’ll get to the book I O ecosystem. But check them out.

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Absolutely amazing stuff. Now, if you enjoyed this particular news update, all this stuff that’s happening in the Kedarno ecosystem, if you want to support these projects, check out all the links down below everything on the learnkadarno.io website. Now, if you enjoyed this podcast in general, make sure you hit that thumbs up, like, subscribe, notification bell on your way out. I’ll keep you guys up to date with everything that’s happening in the space. I’ll see you guys in the next video.