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I mean they did just invent an entirely new market with Würth and Dell that is poised to grow to $1bn in the next 5 years with Iagon receiving 3% of all revenue from 3d printed parts. Also the fireblocks integration with Iagon as the backend will result in constant revenue.
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
I am not trying to be super unfriendly here, BUT i HAVE to.
1. Yo YUTA, how about stop tagging me, told you a couple of times. I do not need a babysitter - I vote and upgrade how and WHEN i want.
2. You are not even close to be in the position to create "social pressure" on people and remind them what to do:
You were the one who constantly changed your vote, even at the last minute, despite having close to 500 million in voting power.
Remember the proposal where you voted one way, and then Charles tried to guilt-force you and your country into voting "yes"?
- You folded like a house of cards and gave in.
I see signs of why you did this, and I genuinely feel sorry for you if I am right about my suspicion. I am sure 99% of people do not know that, because there is much more going on in the background than Charles. Charles was just the public trigger.
3. Upgrading a Cardano Node should not be just done because someone tagged you on X and created some hype and/or social pressure on you.
Upgrading your node means you agree that the network and all key participants are ready for the fork and the changes it brings.
IF a certain amount of Nodes run the fork-ready version, then the countdown for the fork is being started.
So if some people are not ready and/or have other concerns to delay a fork, then the only way to delay the fork is by not upgrading.
That being said,... IF you do not mind, PLEASE let everyone make his own decision when and what to upgrade to.
THAT is the part of the decentralized system by the way:
- Every single Pool makes his own decision when and how he wants to upgrade.
If we all just followed someone like you and upgraded whenever someone told us to, we might as well have an auto-update function where Charles presses a button and off we go - new Charles law applied to the chain.
Cheers!
⚠️Give this Post some live and retweets/shares, so that people understand that upgrading also comes with some responsibility for the chain. Thank you!❤️
A hard fork is approaching, please consider upgrading your pool 🙏🙏🙏 (Sorry if I've tagged it incorrectly)
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Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
Replying to @emurgo_io @FireblocksHQ
Fireblocks is already on Cardano
github.com/fireblocks/cardan…
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
He threatened that Cardano would die if IO did not get funding.
Then he gas lighted the community to fund the proposals and got 50 Million usd of Ada.
Then says he didn't build Cardano to make it valuable.
and is also taking a break after being funded?
xitter.cf/i/status/2062742708284…
LATEST: Cardano founder says he is not the person to return $ADA to all-time highs. He will leave X for the summer citing toxicity but remains committed to Cardano
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
MAYBE that is exactly what he wants.
1. Stay long enough to suck the rest out of the treasury
2. Make us all switch to midnight or whatever "better" fork.
3. and that's it....
LUCKY for us that the TECH is actually decentralized, so IF we would stop following his gaslighting advices and would allow competition in our ecosystem rather than funnelling all money to him and IO - then we could actually get somewhere.
Or long story short, IF he really wanted to #Cardano to be successful then he would not constantly talk "crazy" things - which only have one goal: that HE GETS what HE WANTS.
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
1/9 It is with a heavy heart that I must say I will be leaving Cardano. Not because I want to. But because I have to. I posted it a while ago, but deleted it, hoping for a change in heart.
Now I have no choice.
I will be filing for Chapter 7. I gave this ecosystem everything.
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
if you've ever opened a support ticket in a crypto Discord server and immediately got a friend request or dm from a "support agent" trying to scam you - that's not a coincidence, and it's not a compromised staff account. there's a platform-level vulnerability in Discord that makes every single ticket bot unsafe. here's what i found ⬇️🧵
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
I still don't think you fully understand just how nasty and deliberate this was by @annesofiero and @asooth.
- Headline omits the subject: awkward in Norwegian, highly ambiguous in English. Designed to mislead at first glance.
- No names in the headline: keeps everything vague and depersonalized while the image does the heavy lifting.
- Manipulative photo choice: Manually selected CCTV still of victim Henry Nowak, cropped to make him look shady with hands low, as if concealing a knife.
- They had clear photos of the actual killer, Vickrum Digwa, but chose not to use them prominently (two photos of Henry come first).
- Minimal fixes even after pushback: Only buried clarifications in the caption. Headline and thumbnail left unchanged.
Classic mainstream media framing: plant the wrong first impression without technically lying.
VG knew exactly what it was doing.
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
I fully agree with Charles statement (the one marked in red), his statement means he need to quit himself. Thanks Charles - could not have said it better myself.
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Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
cardano's "governance" has been turned into a complete joke. it will never be taken seriously after this level of corruption.
they just used genesis tokens in a bunch of burner wallets (tracked and proven) and voting power forcefully taken from Yoroi wallet users to vote for their own paid vacation. that's what this really is, do not fool yourself into thinking ADA will go up in value magically after this trip, or that the number of devs/token holders/users will rise even remotely significantly.
this makes us all look like complete idiots for thinking governance could be distributed appropriately, or that the founding entities could have even a shred of awareness of the optics of their own greed.
fucking disgusting.
EMURGO & Yoroi have voted "Yes" on the Cardano at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026: Baseline 'Platinum' Sponsorship Proposal, and we want to be straightforward about what led us there.
Our initial intention was to ABSTAIN on this proposal, given we are the proposer. However, two meaningful updates have changed our position:
▪️ Zero economic gain: We have removed the 15% admin fee to ensure there is no financial benefit to EMURGO, aligning ourselves fully with the community’s interests.
▪️ Founder support: @IOHK_Charles has personally pledged his own resources to further amplify Cardano's presence.
Because we believe so strongly in the need for Cardano to be on a global stage like TOKEN2049, we are voting YES to show our unwavering support for the community.
This is for the builders who have been building on Cardano, bear or bull, the projects that deserve a platform in front of a global audience, and an ecosystem that has earned its place at TOKEN2049.
One Week. One Cardano. Singapore 2026 is the moment for the entire ecosystem to show up together, and EMURGO intends to be part of making that happen.
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
We are in discussion with Enterprise Ireland and the Irish Development Authority.
We are discussing data sovereignty, designated data center zones and more. We have recently opened Iagon Europe Ltd in Ireland, for exactly this.
Wish us luck!
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
If @CryptoWendyO request an amount which is reasonable then I will 100% vote YES for it - and here is why:
She for sure has a ton of followers and viewers, BUT what is really important to me is, that we NEED fresh "blood".
We already have a lot of "influencers", but for me it seems they are all preaching to our internal "echo chamber" - the people which are already within our EcoSystem.
We should give "influencers", which are able to reach people outside of our EcoSystem, an incentive to spread "the word".
wdyt folks?
.@CryptoWendyO is one of the few major voices in crypto consistently covering Cardano right now and that is worth paying attention to.
It also points to something the ecosystem has talked about for a while: Cardano needs more creators.
We have great builders and DReps. Researchers, validators, and devs are shipping quietly in the background; the ecosystem is full of them. Where Cardano has been thinner is the layer of people whose work is to make all of that legible, interesting, and visible to everyone outside it.
Content is how ecosystems compound. It is how new people find their way in, how existing community members stay engaged, and how the work happening onchain becomes a story anyone can follow.
We are supportive of creators who already have an audience and want to bring Cardano into it as well as creators inside the ecosystem who have been telling this story without much backing.
We want to support these types of proposals and are keen to hear more.
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
So,.. There is only TINY thing, Mr. ME-Only forgets:
1. Created something which is supposed to be decentralized
2. He sold us this decentralized vison, and we funded him and his work by basically giving ADA a real value, by buying and holding it.
3. And after we pumped all the money into him for the at least 6 years he is like:
I did it, I,... me,.. me.... I .... me,... me....
Like his statements: I worked for the last 10 years.
Yeah, "buddy" many of us did/do,...
I am working 16-20h per day on #Cardano related things, since the last 7 years at least. Did I get 100's of Millions? Nope.... Am I helping people for free every single day in order they can survive? YES!
But obviously, HE is the only one working in the entire EcoSystem, and he is the ONLY ONE who deserves any credits.
In the MOMENT he understands that WE are Cardano, which INCLUDES HIM - then we can talk!
NEWS
I CONCEIVED CARDANO AND BUILT ITS FOUNDATION – CHARLES 😱😱😱
@IOHK_Charles says deep down inside you know I'm right. I created Cardano.
I conceived of it, wrote the first whitepaper, hired every single scientist and engineer, and helped design the early protocols, it was sheer force of will.
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
We continue to ship. Bull market, bear market, down market... the scenario doesn't matter.
Today we released the Iagon Ecosystem App. Iagon node operators have earned $2,332,060 USD so far.
Real infrastructure. Real utility. Real rewards.
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
Iagon ecosystem data has lived across explorers, dashboards, and internal tools.
Now it lives in one place.
Introducing Ecosystem Stats App — a unified view of Iagon activity on Cardano and across the ecosystem.
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
Okay. For the sake of #Cardano and the overall situation, let's try something.
Since Charles blocked me he does not see my messages, so i NEED YOU, to do one thing please:
Tag Charles by creating a post with the message between START/END:
--- START ---
@IOHK_Charles, @HolgerCardano24 wants you to know the following:
I would like to invite you to a private 1-on-1 call with me. No BS, no fighting, no recordings - just two grown men having a constructive conversation for the sake of our ecosystem.
I will follow you for the next 24 hours. Unblock me, follow me back, and DM me. Then we can switch to another channel where we can talk privately.
It will be worth it. #Cardano is much bigger than both of us, and I sincerely hope you accept the offer to have an honest and constructive conversation.
Thanks!
--- END ---
Please EVERYONE create a post with that content.
Let's make it happen! Thank you!
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
Piece of shit move tbh
Especially when requesting millions from others while threatening their failure if they don't fund you or put their livelihoods/solvency in your hands as well
Stumpy 🦈 $65 retweeted
Replying to @IOHK_Charles @angrycryptoshow
To be honest and frank, I thought you would be secretly happy if at least a few of the IO proposals didn't get funding. Because it would mean the governance system you had helped design and bring to fruition was actually working and you really were "Charles the Community Member" versus the king/CEO of Cardano.
Project Catalyst predicted precisely this friction for the past 5-6 years. All of us who had to go and compete for scarce resources have, in our turn, been called all sorts of names from scammer to grifter to receiving threats of violence and death. Most of us truly believe the things we were proposing would meaningfully improve the Cardano ecosystem. Most of us were wrong most of the time. Probably all of us have had to make the hard decision to let contractors and employees go when we could no longer afford them.
We've all also invested heavily of our time, energy, and personal savings because we believe in the mission; even if the numbers are orders of magnitude different, the relative scale of impact remains.
A lot of people are in an austerity mindset right now because many of us have been already stretched thin and doing our best to make it work and clearly every year will remain a competition for a finite resource.
But, we're all still here. That can't mean nothing. We never started down this path thinking it would be easy.
Also, I apologize for responding in such a way to this clip taken out of context. I have great respect for you and the things you've built here and elsewhere. I hope you and IO remain as valued contributors to the Cardano ecosystem for many years to come.
Not every no vote is a "No to Charles" or "No to IOG", it could very well be just a not right now.
I'll promise to try and do better with my relatively small platform. But I won't stop asking critical questions when I think they're warranted, I'll just try to be less adversarial in my tone and open to hear both sides of the argument.
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Charles, when every critic becomes a villain, the pattern is not everyone else. The pattern is you.
You just listed Optim, Iagon, Cardano Whale, Dave, Rick, Adam and others like this is an "inventory." It is not an inventory. It is a list of people in this ecosystem who have questioned you, disagreed with you, did something you didn't like, challenged IOG, challenged a narrative or refused to act like Cardano governance exists only to ratify what you want.
And instead of reflecting on why so many serious people keep ending up on the other side of your megaphone, you reach for the same playbook every time
- Dismiss the substance.
- Attack the person.
- Recast yourself as the victim.
- Then tell everyone else to "grow up."
So let's take the Iagon part of your "inventory," since you brought us into it. You say Iagon "started bullying and harassing" Midnight ambassadors. That is a convenient story, but it is not what happened.
I as a dRep asked a governance question, NOT Iagon.
A dRep asked whether people with roles connected to Midnight or IOG linked interests, who also held meaningful dRep voting power, should abstain on IOG related treasury proposals. That is governance.
That is literally what dReps are supposed to do - ask hard questions, examine conflicts, protect treasury neutrality and represent the $ADA holders who delegated voting power to them. If a person is participating in governance with delegated $ADA while also holding a role connected to a project or organization affected by that vote, asking about conflicts is not an attack. It is accountability.
And let's be very clear - ambassadors are not above scrutiny. dReps are not above scrutiny. Iagon is not above scrutiny. IOG is not above scrutiny. Midnight is not above scrutiny. You are not above scrutiny.
This is supposed to be decentralized governance, not a court where certain people get protected status because they are useful to Charles Hoskinson.
The moment a person participates in public governance with public voting power, the public is allowed to ask public questions. You did not answer the conflict question. You reframed it as "bullying" - ironically this is exactly what you have been doing in this ecosystem.
Then you escalated it into an attack on Iagon, my leadership and the holders.
You used your platform to tell the market you had "no more time" for the project unless leadership changed. You warned that Iagon could fail and destroy value for token holders. You called into question the ethics and integrity my leadership. You accused us of acting out of spite rather than engaging with the actual governance concern.
And then, after the damage was done, you turned around and said people are "playing the victim." That is not leadership. That is deflection.
You cannot threaten a Cardano native project, watch real holders suffer, then accuse the people objecting to the threat of being childish.
You cannot say you care about token holders while dismissing "your token holders" when those holders happen to be in a project that challenged you.
There are no "Iagon holders" over there and "Cardano holders" over here. $IAG holders are $ADA holders.
They are stake pool operators.
They are voters.
They are dReps.
They are builders.
They are community members.
They are families.
They are the same ecosystem you claim to defend.
When you attack a Cardano project, you are not attacking some foreign body. You are attacking people inside Cardano. That is the part you keep avoiding.
You talk about ambassadors being bullied. Fine. I will say this clearly - I do not condone harassment of any ambassador, volunteer, dRep, builder, SPO or community member. Anyone who crosses into personal abuse should stop.
But do not use "protecting ambassadors" as a shield to make governance questions untouchable. Do not use volunteers as human armor around treasury proposals.
Do not say "decentralized governance" when the rule is really - vote,but do not question my side - ask question but not about my people - participate but only if you accept the consequences of my platform turning on you.
That is not governance.
That is intimidation. And since we are talking about red lines, where were those red lines when Iagon was being called a scam? Where were those red lines when IOG aligned voices and consultants were smearing Iagon publicly?
Where were those red lines when defamatory claims, racial slurs and personal attacks were being thrown at builders who have spent years building on Cardano?
Where was the concern for "bullying" then?
The standard cannot be:
When your side attacks, it is criticism.
When others ask questions, it is harassment.
When you escalate, it is leadership.
When people respond, they are victims.
When you use a 1M+ follower account, it is accountability.
When a dRep asks about conflicts, it is a mob.
That double standard is exactly why people are speaking up. You say people "lash out, get hit hard and then play the victim."
No.
People ask legitimate questions. You hit hard. Then you call their injuries proof that they were wrong to ask. That is the pattern.
A dRep raises a conflict of interest concern. You call it bullying. A project CEO disagrees with IOG proposals.
You call it spite. A community member challenges your narrative. You diagnose them, mock them, block them or write them off. Then, when people notice the pattern, you call them children.
Charles, the lack of self-reflection here is breathtaking.
At some point, when the same story keeps happening with different people, different projects, different dReps, different critics,and different cycles, maybe the common denominator is not that everyone else is irrational.
Maybe the common denominator is that you treat disagreement as disloyalty.
Maybe the common denominator is that you confuse criticism with attack.
Maybe the common denominator is that you cannot separate Cardano from yourself. That is dangerous in a decentralized ecosystem. Because Cardano does not belong to you.
It does not belong to IOG.
It does not belong to Iagon.
It does not belong to Midnight.
It does not belong to any ambassador group, any DRep bloc, any founder, any company or any whale.
It belongs to the $ADA holders and the people building, maintaining, securing, voting, delegating, questioning and participating in it.
And if those people cannot ask whether conflicts exist without being threatened, mocked, financially harmed or publicly targeted, then governance is not free.
You said "grow up kids." Here is the adult version:
Answer the question. Should dReps with roles, incentives, payments, affiliations or obligations connected to an organization seeking treasury funds disclose those overlaps and consider abstaining?
Yes or no?
That was the issue.
Not your ego.
Not my tone.
Not Iagon’s existence.
Not whether Midnight ambassadors are good people.
Not whether Charles feels attacked.
Not whether people should be afraid to ask next time.
The question was about conflict, disclosure and treasury integrity. If there is no conflict, explain why.
If there is a conflict, disclose it. If abstention is not necessary, make the case. If the Constitution already provides the standard, apply it equally. But do not turn a governance question into a loyalty test.
Do not demand apologies for asking what every serious governance system must be willing to ask.
Do not pretend you are defending decentralization while using centralized influence to punish dissent.
And do not tell people to "grow up" while threatening to burn projects down.
The Cardano community should be able to disagree without fear. dReps should be able to vote NO without being branded enemies. Builders should be able to compete without being targeted. Token holders should not become collateral damage in personality conflicts.
Ambassadors should be respected, yes. But they should not be used to make legitimate governance scrutiny off limits.
So yes, let's take inventory.
Who asked a governance question?
Who answered with escalation?
Who raised a possible conflict?
Who turned it into a campaign against a project?
Who claims to care about token holders?
Who publicly attacked leadership of a project whose holders are also Cardano community members?
Who says others play the victim?
Who keeps casting himself as the victim whenever accountability arrives?
That is the pattern people are seeing. And no amount of "grow up kids" changes it.
Iagon will continue building. I will continue voting my conscience as a dRep. I will continue asking questions when treasury neutrality, conflicts of interest and governance integrity are at stake.
If I am wrong, answer with facts. If you disagree, make the argument. But threats, mockery, blocks and public intimidation are not arguments. They are the behavior of someone who wants decentralized governance only until it decentralizes power away from him.
Cardano deserves better than that.




















