The Builder Cycle Is Here: Midnight, Vola and Cardano’s Next Wave of Builders

In this video, I’ll be going through a whole bunch of updates from the Cardano ecosystem. Lots of really cool positive things that are happening at the moment. I’ll talk through those first, then I’ll talk about Vola Network and their partner chain that is launching on Cardano very soon. Also, a look into the state of the NFT marketplaces here on the Cardano ecosystem.

I’ll touch on that slightly and also a whole bunch of updates around Midnight, that whole privacy partner chain that is launching as well. Well, I should say it has launched, but there are lots of products now starting to launch on-chain, too. So really exciting stuff. Then I’ll talk through a whole bunch of things that I’ve been building on Cardano as well.

I’m pretty, pretty excited about this kind of stuff. So let’s get into it, guys. All right. If it’s your first time here, hit that thumbs up, like, subscribe, notification bell.

Let’s get into all these news updates. And like I said, I’ve got a lot to go through here. So let’s smash on through it. So first off here, if you aren’t on X, you probably aren’t aware that the whole Cardano ecosystem is going through a voting and treasury process at the moment.

There’s 350 million ADA up for grabs from the Cardano Treasury to help fund and build new things in the ecosystem. And the first governance proposals from Input Output Group have closed now. So they’ve gone through and a lot of debate has been happening, a lot of arguments and whatnot. And a lot of them have gone through.

But what I’ll do with the governance side of things is dedicate a separate video for it. So if you’re interested in that kind of thing, make sure you hit that subscribe button to get notification about it. Not as many people like watching those ones because it’s a little bit more tedious. Those videos, it’s a little bit more long-winded.

So check out that video that I’ll put up later this week, which will talk about the governance state of governance in the Cardano ecosystem. But these other new stories are coming through at the moment. This is really cool. Indigo.

Indigo is a synthetic protocol that is building on Cardano and they are launching their V3 of their protocol. And V3 brings in a whole bunch of really cool new features. One of the really interesting ones is how they incentivise users coming into the ecosystem. So when you are providing Liqwidity on their platform, you’re using a stable coin or something on there, and you have to use that as collateral to mint and create a brand new asset, such as maybe iUSD or one of these RWAs that’s coming into the ecosystem.

So with that change of funding mechanism, they also have a change in the reward mechanism. So now if you’re bringing in Liqwidity and you’re locking in as Japanese yen, for example, so you got a synthetic yen, so the iYEN, and using that as Liqwidity on the platform you’re locking in, you actually get the iYEN as your reward for providing Liqwidity. So instead of using the INDY token as a reward and creating inflation there in their ecosystem and their token, they’re using the token that you provide to provide the reward token for you, for providing that token. And I think that really makes sense.

And this, because of that change of the protocol and the reward system, it has changed the entire setup of the protocol. So now they can open up the protocol to all of these different synthetic assets. And because of that original reward token being Indigo, it really limited what they could do. If they opened up everything on their platform from, you know, iEUR, iYEN, iAUD, Australian dollar, iGOLD, all those synthetic assets, and they paid out on Indigo, Indigo would go to nothing.

And there’s no point in that because the INDY token needs to have some sort of value for their holders, the people that help fund, create all of this. So changing that reward mechanism to the actual asset they’re providing makes a huge difference. So I’m really, really happy about that. And it’s a very smart move.

The other thing that they’re doing here is they’re also using Pyth. So Pyth was one of those integrations that came in from the Cardano Critical Integrations Fund. The Pentad, the founding entities plus Intersect and Midnight Foundation funded a lot of this type of integration, and Pyth was one of them. And Pyth, for those that don’t know, is a Tier 1 oracle ecosystem.

So it brings in on-chain data of all the price feeds from all these different types of assets. So combining that, combining the Pyth side of things, so we’ve got a Tier 1 oracle bringing in the price feeds and price data of these assets on-chain. And then you have the new reward mechanism and the incentives for providing Liqwidity on the platform. It really creates that ecosystem that is self-fulfiling and hopefully will bring in more Liqwidity and assets to the chain.

So this is definitely something to look into, something especially if you are interested in holding on to the value of gold or other currencies or other RWAs that are on the platform. So this is Really cool stuff. Now, the team also have a proposal, treasury proposal, that’s going up through the Intersect Hydra voting process. And this is it here.

They’re requesting just under four million ADA to help fund and take their platform to the next level. So if you’re interested in learning more about that, I’ll put links to everything I mentioned about Indigo and their treasury proposal here in the show notes down below. So please make sure you check them all out. Now, going along with the whole Cardano Critical Integrations Fund stuff, V1 was funded and that’s gone through.

We’ve paid a lot of money. I think it was 70 million ADA previously to have that all done. But now there is a CCIV2, which is the upgrades and the maintenance cost behind this. It’s costing an extra 23 million to get this one done.

So this is mainly maintenance, but then also a new native integration of Fireblocks as well. And from what I’ve read and understand, Fireblocks is one of the critical platforms that is needed by a lot of institutional investors to bring assets on-chain. So if they were thinking about bringing in the actual gold on-chain or something like that, they need Fireblocks in the back end to control the data that is going through the ecosystem. So that is one of the really important parts of this integration for this CCIV2.

Again, I’ll put links to all the details of this. You can get to it all on-chain as well. So you can dig into it and find out a little bit more exactly about what they’re asking for in this particular integration. Now, for those developers out there wanting to learn more about how to develop on Cardano, there is a really cool series that is put up by the Cardano community, Cardano Foundation, and it’s the Cardano Developer Office Hours.

And this one here, this one that was just passed, you can watch it online now. But this is with Max talking about ODataNO, why OData matters for enterprise systems, how the gateway works and what’s already been built on top of it. So Trace, Finca, Quantix and X402 and more. Now, I don’t know much about these here.

The X402 is that payment protocol for AI agents. So when agents are online and especially if they’re using blockchain, they’ll be paying each other for data or information. And they do it via this particular protocol here, X402. So it’s quite interesting stuff.

This is all enterprise level coding and development. And if you’re in that space and want to learn more about how you can incorporate Cardano into your development stack, this is definitely one to watch. Again, links in the show notes for you all. Now, for those that aren’t as tech savvy and you do want to build a website or something on-chain using and powered by Cardano, this website here, you can launch a token website.

So if you’re launching a meme coin or something and you need a central point where you can direct people, go to my website, you can learn more about it. You can do this with this really cool platform here called launchPepeano.com. You fill in a couple of details, you choose a couple of colours, maybe you’ve got a logo or something already and it will generate the site for you and host it on decentralised storage. That is really cool.

No KYC, no continuous hosting bills, no credit cards needed. You just need to fund your payment with some ADA. And I believe last time when I went through this to try it out, it cost about, I think was about 300 or so ADA to actually get this done. You can connect your wallet.

I’ve tried this one, it’s pretty safe to do. So I’m just connecting my wallet. So I’ve got my test wallet connected here. I’ve only got about 30 ADA in this one.

But you can go through, you can choose to launch a new site here, launch a token and a new site. So you’ve got some options. So I’m just going to get started there and I’m going to create a crypto project. You can choose a couple of colours.

You’ve got a pre-made template. That one looks kind of nice. Click continue. Then you can put in your project name, your tagline.

You can choose a domain name, see if it’s available, put in your socials and whatnot. So I just need to check if that’s available. That’s great. Click continue.

Project doesn’t have a token and I can just put in some test data here for now. That looks all OK to me. And choose an image if you want. I won’t choose one now.

We’ve got some reviews here and then you just go to the payment. And yes, at the moment it’s 317 ADA roughly, plus a little bit of ADA fees and tokens for the network fee. But that’s basically it. You pay, launch and you have your website up and running within a few minutes.

Really cool service, especially for those that aren’t tech savvy and know how all these aspects work. So you’ve got your options here. If you’re on a high level developer side, you can learn about enterprise type of development. Or if you’re a beginner and you just want to fire something up powered by Cardano, I’ve given you some options here.

So there’s no excuse really not to start building on the Cardano ecosystem. Now, there’s some other really cool things I want to talk about here. And Anuvola Digital, they’ve gone through, they’re building what’s called the Vola Network. And it’s essentially a standalone partner chain for Cardano that is powering their network.

It’s all around decentralised storage. And Vola Network is created to allow for what their use case needs. And it’s really cool that they’ve gone to this point now. So I had an interview with Raul a little bit earlier this year talking about all this.

And he was so close to launching, but a couple of delays came in place. But they’re here now. They’re at the testnet. So if you want to check out that video, it links in the top right-hand corner for you there.

Should appear, there you go. So you can watch that video and learn more about what they’re building and why they’re building it too. But if you want to start playing around with it now, I had a quick play with this one here. We’ve got the Explorer, we got their dashboard and a special testnet wallet.

So you would have to use their wallet on their platform itself. So it’s catered specifically for the partner chain. Just like when you use Midnight, Midnight is also a partner chain. It has its own wallets.

So when you use the Vola Network, you also need to use their own wallet that’s catered for that ecosystem. I’ll talk a little bit more about that in a moment. But here you can see Explorer. So people have gone through over the weekend and started playing with it.

You can see network stacks. We see the blocks on the network, total transactions, events, amount of validators, active wallets and circulating supply of tokens and everything. So it’s really cool. it’s taken them a while to get to this point, but it seems that more people are firing up partner chains for Cardano.

So these are, like I said, application specific chains to fulfil a certain business goal. And we’re going to see more of this. We will definitely see more of this. And as this gets easier and easier to fire up and take some less and less development, we will see a lot more of this.

Now, I’m just going to segue back here for a second, back to the Treasury proposals. And there was one really interesting Treasury proposal about this. And I know when I want it,, I’m probably not going to be able to find it here. Here it is.

Takkis. So this here, this proposal is quite interesting. This is high performance partner chain factory using Ouroboros Takkis. This allowed you to create a partner chain on the fly with minimal fuss.

So this I it’s really cool tech. It hasn’t been built out. There isn’t much of MVP or anything just yet. But to have this so that you can fire up your own partner chain, like what Vola did with the Vola Explorer, VolaScan and all that stuff, Vola Network, to be able to fire up a partner chain within an hour or something like that, I think is very powerful as more dApps start building partner chains on Cardano.

But the downside to this is that we’re still a little bit early, I think. I know this particular proposal, I’ve gone way off track here. Sorry, guys. But it takes it’s going to take 15 months to deliver.

So that’s the kind of timing that when I would expect the market should recover and projects actually need this. So will this one’s a hard one. It’s like this is really cool tech that I think we need. But I don’t think we need it yet.

But in hindsight, they’ll probably start need to build now so that in 15 months’ time when the market has recovered, hopefully it’s recovered and we’re in a better position. Tech like this is needed. So I’m in two minds. I’m very split about this one because I know that we do need this kind of tech in about 15 months time.

And if they don’t start building now, they won’t have it. So, you know, it’s a really tough call that one for sure. But it’s really cool tech. And this is what’s possible with what Vola have put together.

And you can see the proof is in the pudding here, building up your own network, partner chain, amazing stuff. Now, if you want to try it out, you have to download the Vola Wallet itself. I downloaded it. I had a look at the code and I thought it was pretty cool because I’ve never actually gotten a chance to download someone else’s wallet code before and check out how it all works.

And I thought it was quite interesting, like I had a little dig into it to see the mechanics behind it. I put it through. to analyse it to make sure it’s all safe so you know that’s a good good thing to do as well but then I had a look at how it’s built and I think the mechanics is quite interesting and I have kind of an understanding of how to build a wallet now too so have a look at that guys It’s quite interesting if you have that technical mindset if you want to put through an AI tool yourself and get an explainer you can and It’s pretty cool stuff but like I said if you want to try out Vola Network all the links references everything down below I’d love to hear your feedback about this one and when we see more and more of these partner chains appear we’re going to see some really interesting use cases and I think this is probably the future of where Cardano will end up in the next five years we’re going to see a lot more partner chains fire up now this is one of the saddest stories in the ecosystem update and this is the evolution of the NFT marketplaces we’ve had many many NFT marketplaces and I was around when CNFT.io the original marketplace was around then that died off and JPEG Store was the biggest and best one out there with a lot of really cool features fully smart contract enabled royalties and very very big growth during that FT boom now unfortunately JPEG Store has sunset they’ve closed operations and they’re no longer in operation anymore very sad to see an end of an era since 2021 but that’s the way the market has gone NFT mania is gone and now we’re left with a very niche marketplace a very niche ecosystem for NFTs this is the JPEGs trading side of things but as NFTs move over into online ticketing and other things like that we will see a revival of it I believe anyway so unfortunate that we are at this point but we are seeing WayUp dominate at the moment so WayUp is the NFT marketplace created and managed by ADA Anvil the operation that cash is behind and they’re doing very well they’re basically taken up all of the JPEG Store market share and everyone’s migrating essentially over there so if you want to learn how to actually migrate your stuff over there as well I did a video tutorial about this they’ve got a really cool and quick script on the WayUp website check out this video here if you do have any NFTs you don’t need to worry about the closure of JPEG Store you can’t get to the website anymore to delist NFTs through their interface but WayUp has a way to interact directly with the JPEG Store smart contracts to pull out all of those NFTs that you had listed there and move over to WayUp so you should still If you listen on JPEG Store you should see it all on WayUp as well because they’ve got like an aggregator that pulled in your NFTs that are attached to your wallet any smart contract-enabled NFTs to pull them in and you could sell them on WayUp as well but then JPEG Store got the royalty migrating them over here WayUp gets a royalty if they’re providing the service if they’re providing the interface that they’re providing the marketing they’re the ones that should get the royalty fee for selling it right that’s how I see it so migrate your stuff over check out this video and hopefully we’ll see these guys continue operating because we do need at least one good NFT marketplace in the Cardano ecosystem and WayUp seems to be it alright let’s get into the midnight side of things and midnight the whole privacy chain side of things is getting really exciting and Minswap here have announcement we got four days left for Minswap LPs so if you had provided Liqwidity on the Minswap DEX you got night tokens as well so they claimed them but they have windows limited windows of when you can claim them by and this is the closure of phase two so you do need to claim your night tokens as soon as possible four days from recording of this video so before the end of the month if you don’t claim it you’ll miss out on this phase two of the night tokens from Minswap so with the regular night token claim through the glacier drop you can wait all the way to the end and you can claim all your tokens at once but with the Minswap one with WingRiders with Liqwid you have to claim during that period that window of each phase it’s just how their mechanisms are set up with their wallets and how they query the chain so it’s more important to do it in those phases so if you got Liqwidity on there please claim your night tokens now this one here is interesting and the pulse team have pivoted so originally they were doing perpetuals just like strike but they’ve gone off and now done more stuff on the midnight side of things so they’ve built a privacy DEX but they’re also now building something really cool and something really needed and this is a Cardano midnight bridge to move assets back and forth between the partner chain and Cardano so originally when midnight launch they created a bridge but it was a one-way bridge from Moonbeam over to Midnight so you can move your night tokens over to midnight you couldn’t move it back and they’re working with partners to build that bridge to come back but they hadn’t gone around to it yet so they launched it with a few things missing now thankfully other teams have started to step up and build those missing bridges and missing pieces and and pulse is one of them so they realise if they are going to build a DEX and have Liqwidity over midnight you need to be able to move those assets back and forth especially if you’re using a CNFT that isn’t listed on a centralised exchange you need to be able to move that back to Cardano and hold it there or whatever it is so you need that flexibility of choice so they’re now building a bridge to move your assets back really cool stuff so the smart contract is already complete and should be live in the next 30 days it goes through like an audit process on the midnight side of things it’s still a federated network so there’s a bit of control there but we will see that happen if you want to read more about it they’ve got the medium article here that talks through the the whole thing here so I’ll put a link to that all down below I won’t read it for you now if you you can read in your own time other really cool thing that came out last week from midnight was how private are you and and this was a quiz to put you through the process of understanding that some of the actions that you do in crypto aren’t private at all and it really puts it front and centre and make you realise that some of the practices that you’re doing could compromise your privacy and as I say privacy isn’t a nice-to-have it’s a right you should be able to keep yourself private on-chain online wherever it is so if you it’s a really quick quiz only six questions do check it out again links down below I love to see what level of privacy that you guys are at you can see a few people here Tom John here I think that’s the top level of privacy 1500 XP points and then you can see other people not so private at all so yeah good to see would like to see how you guys fare in this privacy game anyway let’s move on to the next story the other really cool thing that came out was midnight city now this was a big upgrade from v1 and ever since v1 was launched they were always teasing that you could have your own character have your own AI agent built within the platform and now it’s launched so this is two months after the launch of midnight city they’ve now launched all their customisable agents and people have been making their own agents and it takes a little while because I have to make sure it’s all real and you’re not making anything weird and placing online but people are creating their agents they’re putting them online and it’s all coming to life now too now I’ve got my own agent here and I was lucky because I’m a midnight ambassador or leader I just submitted a photo and they could make one for me so they made one here for me in my Cardano swimming trunks and my black cap and Ray-Bans so that’s me there so if you see me floating around you can interact with me and I know trade and talk about hacking stuff so it’s pretty cool do check that out I like this upgrade because it makes you want to come back to the platform to try and see what is happening to see what your agents been up to are they making any money are they mining and all that stuff so It’s a nicer nice upgrade so that you can have some ownership in the platform itself so check it out learn about how privacy and selective disclosure works midnight city v2 really cool stuff this next one here with ascend markets and their prediction perpetuals market it’s a little bit here now it’s more than just a DEX more than just trading which is cool because we have a lot of DEXs we have a lot of swaps and stuff and you know that’s that’s a given if you open up a wallet you should see a swapping mechanism in there so you don’t really need another DEX you just need those mechanisms in the background and then platforms like this that can really elevate what you can do on-chain and really amplify some of your gains so here this is the platform itself it’s all on testnet here so you can log in and have a play with this one but this is all on midnight itself so it will let you go into these perpetual these prediction markets and then trade them with long and short positions with a lot of leverage so if we go here this is a simple one will ADA to go up by this time and let’s have a look here we can click on trade for this one you can choose the amount that you want to trade and predict here and now we’re just guessing if the price of ADA will go up or down you can long this if you think it’s going to go up or you short this if you think it’s going to go down and the amount of leverage that I put into this platform that moment is kind of ridiculous but this is testnet so there isn’t that much Liqwidity and I think they’re just playing around the mechanisms in general but you can up to a thousand X this long position here of ADA will go up. Of course, now you have to manage all this and make sure you don’t get Liqwidated and all that but it’s another cool mechanism to play around with and Ascend Markets is definitely leading the way in terms of development on the midnight chain so if you are interested in what they have to offer I put links down below so you can see exactly how you can start playing around with this platform and what the future of midnight might look like with them online now if you are interested in learning more about midnight in general I did a presentation at last month’s midnight Cardano meetup and I talked about midnight in general how it works how selective disclosure works privacy and all that stuff so you can check out this presentation here again links down below I made this all open source, so if you’re running your own meetup anywhere or you want to talk to people about it you can use this let me know if I’ve done any mistakes I’ll fix them up and you know help us out and we’ll contribute to make something really cool a nice base level presentation that you can share with the community in general so I thought that was a really cool idea and hopefully this presentation does improve over time as well now I did want to touch on governance just a little bit and this is an interview I did last week with Laura Mattiucci and Nathaniel Acton from the EMURGO so Laura is from the Cardano Foundation Nate is from EMURGO but we talked about the Cardano summit and token 2049 and personally I think these two are very big events that the Cardano ecosystem really need to be showcased at and from what I’ve heard could Charles is actually going to the Cardano summit this year in Singapore which is super exciting so he knows the value of these events and the ecosystem should really be working together to really harness what we have built in general so just to recap I mentioned this stuff in the video as well but we’ve got the Cardano critical in an integrations fund v1 that went through a little hiccup there but you know it’s gone through and we’ve built some good integrations we’ve got the CC IV to going through with some upgrades there and maintenance and then we have all this Bitcoin DeFi all these DeFi protocols that are building all this really cool innovative stuff that we’re doing on-chain and not slowing down and not capitalise on that momentum I think is really detrimental to everyone and the ecosystem these two big events is one of those benefits that we all benefit from so this isn’t a Treasury proposal that will fund one company building one specific tool that the business operations that they will manage and earn revenue from themselves this is a event for everyone this is exposure for the entire chain this is exposure for all the projects that will head over to token 2049 and the Cardano summit so I think this is incredibly important to fund to showcase what Cardano is capable of. So if you haven’t voted for yet please do there is still time to vote here this one ends on May 30th and we’ve only had a hundred and seventy DReps vote on this one here so we still have a lot of people that need to step up and vote and if you don’t vote it’s counted as a no vote if you decide to abstain for whatever reason that’s fine that your vote is taken out of the tally but if you don’t vote it’s counted as a no so if you have a lazy DRep that hasn’t changed their vote to abstain or they’re actually voting no against this one contact them please we need to get these type of events these headline ones really over the line and help showcase what Cardano is capable of there’s a lot of people coming to token 2049 this it’s a really big global event and to not have any representation for Cardano and for the Cardano summit not to be there to capitalise on that as well is really really really would be disappointing there’s going to be hackathons there’s going to be a lot of meetups there’s going to be a lot of side events from what I’ve been told from Nate if you watch the interview there’s over 900 side events at this during this week so we have constant flow of things happening I’m gonna be exhausted so hopefully I can make it over there but if you are there hit me up because I’m gonna do as many interviews as possible I’m gonna talk to everyone that I can talk to I’m gonna cover their project whatever it is so if you’re building a DeFi protocol if you’re building on midnight if you’re building on Cardano whatever it is please hit me up because I’m gonna try my best to get my butt over there and interview you guys to get you as much exposure as possible this is like one of my only chances I can talk to the entire Cardano ecosystem in person and if you can make it over there please please do because this way I can cover you guys make sure you get practice in talking in front of a camera get your pitch down pat you know all those things that are really important for anyone that is working this space anyway watch please watch the interview links down below or should appear in the top right-hand corner as well my little rant there is over sorry about that But let me show you some really cool things that I’ve been working on and building lately.

So in doing all this DRep and this Cardano Treasury side of things, I wanted a way to communicate to you guys, so if anyone that has delegated to me as a DRep, I wanted somewhere where you can go so you can find out how I’m voting, my voter rationale and all that stuff. So I put together this website. This is at drep.learncardano.io, again links down below, I think they’ve been down below for a long time, I’ve put them in all my videos for the last year or so. But this will allow you to delegate to me, give you a brief overview, my voting approach, you know, all that kind of stuff.

You can see all my latest YouTube videos, for some reason it’s not loading at the moment, of course, it’s not loading when I’m trying to do a demo, but then more importantly, all my voter rationale and everything and how I vote for every single proposal out there. So here you can see the revised Cardano Summit proposal here and my voter rationale, which I put together, and also how my history of voting on that. So you can see I voted abstain, voted yes, abstain, yes, and that’s because I had some bloody issues with the voting platform, like I click here, I vote, okay, great, I abstained at the beginning, then I voted yes, my voter rationale didn’t come in, I couldn’t update my rationale, so I had to vote abstain, there’s my rationale in the abstain, and then I had to vote again to vote yes with my rationale.

It’s kinks, kinks in the program, I have to make my own voting platform to work the way I want it. Anyway, guys, that’s why you see me voting multiple times on different things, because it’s just not working as I expect it to, but anyway, here you can see all my voter rationale and how I vote on all the different proposals, it goes back to the beginning of governance, and you can see them all there, I may need to optimise that so it doesn’t cost me a fortune to load this each time, but you can see all the way to the beginning, back in 2024 when this one was, I think, the Hoskey thing, should we name the hard fork the Hoskey hard fork, I don’t know why my rationales aren’t coming up, there we go, but they are coming up, you should be able to see them all there.

So if you want to check this website out, it’s something I built with AI, I built it with Claude Code, and a little bit of my own coding as well, just to jam it in there and get it the way I want, but it’s a really cool platform itself, and you can build one, I’ve open-sourced it, you can fork it from where it is now, so you’ve got a good starting point, and then customise it for your own, but this all integrates in with the Mesh SDK, so you can do all the wallet integrations, you can connect your wallet, and then start delegating and all that, all from the interface. It’s built with WASMs and stuff like that, and if you don’t understand it, that’s cool, but it’s a really nice way of going about building on Cardano, and I love it, I love what AI and all these resources out there has given me, so I can build these websites really quickly now.

So this website probably took about three hours, so not long at all, the design was done by Nipo, so a designer in the Cardano ecosystem, and I just adapted the design a little bit to make it how I wanted it, so it’s pretty cool, pretty cool overall. Now this next project here, this is the leaderboard, so if you ever use a platform like Zealy, Zealy allows you to go into a project and then do all these tasks so that you can earn points, and when you earn those points, if you, where you are on the leaderboard, you can actually earn real crypto assets. So here you can see on this leaderboard here, we’ve got a whole bunch of wallets here that have gone through, and then all the points that I have earned, we have to verify those points and then see how many are real and what not, but you can go through the platform, you can start playing around with it, it’s all with test data at the moment, but check it out, it’s really cool.

You can connect your wallet, do some of these test transactions, these test tasks, and then you’ll be able to see yourself on the leaderboard. Now the whole premise and idea around this is that I will be working with as many projects as I can in the Cardano ecosystem to do seasons of activity, so season one might run for a month, and during that season, we have 20 different projects and you have to perform all these tasks throughout the month, so you have to do like a social post, you have to use their dApp, and this platform tracks all of their on-chain activities, so if you connect this website here, I’ll be able to grab your stake key, and with that stake key, I can see where you go, and if you’re trading on Minswap, if you’re doing a swap on Steelswap, if you’re using a perps like Strike, so all those different platforms out there.

And the task manager here will verify that and then give you the points for it, so it’s a really cool way to incentivise and reward people for using the Cardano ecosystem. We all complain that there’s not enough transactions, there’s not activity. If you give a user extra incentive to actually use the chain itself, I think we can drum up some really cool activity here, so this is idea on premise here. If you like this, if you think a Cardano project could benefit from this as well, reach out to them.

You’ll be able to contact me and get them added to the task board for season one, so that they can start gaining activity and warm up through the ecosystem. So like a real project, a really little project like Pepeano that could build websites, you know, it does cost a little bit here, but if you build a really cool website on there, we can track that all on-chain and put it onto the leaderboard here, and maybe the reward be 600 ADA for the best website designed. You know, we can do things like that, and we can create more activity, so really cool stuff here guys. I’d love to see more projects on here, so reach out to them, tell them to contact me and get them on board with this leaderboard.

Other thing I’ve built here is a bounty program, and the bounty program is basically a jobs board, so you can post up a job, design five original memes for Hoski, and then the best five will get like a hundred dollars or a hundred ADA or something like that. So this is something I came up with to try again, drum up interest within the ecosystem, but I built this in a way that when you’re paying for these bounties, so if you’re using this and you’re saying, oh, I’m going to give you a hundred dollars reward, you have to use your USD assets. So you have to use a fiat on-ramp, I might not force it, but I’m encouraging people to use a fiat on-ramp to try and bring in new Liqwidity to the ecosystem.

So we see, you know, a lot of people just using ADA or stable coins and paying within the ecosystem, and we’re not seeing fresh Liqwidity come in. So I’m using a fiat on-ramps to bring that fresh Liqwidity in, so people that are just paying for a job, they say, oh, I want to do a test bounty here and drum up some interest about my project, they can post up a job, they get the job out there, pay for it with their credit card, and then pay out in crypto. So anyone that submits it, they’ll get payments in USDA, USDM, USDCx, whatever it might be. So that’s the premise of this one here.

And again, this is built mostly with AI, but with a pre-made smart escrow smart contracts. So it’s all smart contract-based, so Really cool platform as well. Again, I’ll be launching this one in conjunction with the leaderboard so that you can tailor, tie them together and do some really cool things there too. So lots of things happening, guys, lots of things I’m building in the background here, And I’m so thankful for all of these pre-made smart contracts that are out there, which makes this whole process so much easier.

Now, the last thing I’ll mention here is a fundraiser. So it’s, I do this, this one every year, and it’s Push for Better. And this is the Push-Up Challenge where you have to do 300 or 3307 push-ups in 24 days. It sounds like a lot, but it is manageable.

You can do 20 push-ups in an hour and you’ll punch through this quite easily. You don’t have to do full proper push-ups, you don’t have to do military press-ups. You can do it on an incline, you can do it on a chair, whatever it is, you can do dips. But this is two things, one, gets you moving, better for your health and better strength and endorphins and all the benefits that you get from exercising.

It’s also for a mental health cause and Push for Better have been raising money every year for suicide prevention and mental health related things. And the number here, this 3307, this is the amount of people that have committed suicide last year in Australia. So in other countries around the world, it may be a lot higher, but since I’m doing this from Australia, this is the statistic and the number that they’re working with here. So it’s 3307.

And I’d love to see people come and join this fundraiser. You can join the fundraiser by joining and doing the push-ups and whatnot yourself, or you can come in and help donate. So I’m not expecting many people to join in and donate, which is totally cool. So I set the goal quite low, but I’d love to see people at least come in and do the push-ups and join me for that part of joining.

So we’ve got two people signed up so far, myself and Patrick, who joined up last time as well. I ran this challenge. So this starts next week. So I’d love to see you guys jump in and join me on this Push-Up Challenge.

So it’s links all down below. I’ll pin it in the first comment as well so you can see it all there. But that’s it for this particular news update, guys. We’ve got a lot there in this update.

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