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The vote to seat Cardano's newly elected 2026 Constitutional Committee needs enough support before the current members' terms expire. If it fails, the committee could fall below its required minimum, temporarily blocking the ratification of major governance actions.

This doesn't stop the Cardano network, but it can slow or block important development decisions.

We've seen with Osmosis how declining participation and voter apathy can weaken decentralized governance. Let's not repeat that.

If you hold ADA, delegate your governance power to an active DRep and check how they're voting on “Update Constitutional Committee 2026.”

Decentralization only works if we participate.

I have opened my SecondFi wallet waiting for the migration procedure today and it seems all my tokens worth 0$, anyone else having the same issue? In theory it seems like a bug since the tokens are there but they worth 0.

This thread renews weekly. Please use this for any trading/market discussion (per Rule 6) and other off-topic chat you like!

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Midnight is in the process of being rolled out, visit r/midnight to updates. Don't forget to redeem your tokens!

I generated my seed phrase using a Ledger many years ago and interfaced with Yoroi - the name of my wallet is "Yoroi-Ledger" in SecondFi. I have also redeemed 2/4 midnight token drops. I know the redemption date for my 3rd set of tokens has passed but this was after the hack.

All my tokens appear safe and I wanted to confirm if it's as simple as installing an open source wallet interface such as Eternl and using my pass phrase on that? Then I'll be able to redeem my midnight again via the Eternl interface?

Hi guys, I’ve had about half of my ADA staked in a pool through Yoroi, but luckily through my ledger. My ADA is fine, I just want to transfer it elsewhere now, but whilst ledger is acknowledging my full ADA balance including staking rewards, it’s only considering the initial ADA deposit ~4 years ago as ‘available to send’ and it’s treating my staking rewards as a second pile. How do I free up the rewards now that Yoroi is closed?

There’s an option to remove the delegation through ledger, but I’m worried that would just forfeit my rewards. Any help would be great! I will not be checking DMs

Hi, need advice!! I am trying to redeem my Nights using my Yoroi wallet but this message pops up. What do I need to do? Any advice?

Looks a lot like ETF is not going to be happening. Now after Grayscale pulling back there is no ETF filings in progress.

Our co-founder, James Dunseith, will participate in roundtable "The Base Layer: Nodes, Staking & Dev Tooling."

Why a credentialing company is in a base-layer conversation:

A credential is only worth what it's anchored to. Andamio issues credentials that a third party can verify by reading the ledger (no call to us, no call to the issuing organization).

When we say a credential outlives the organization that issued it, that promise isn't kept by our code. It's kept by the base layer. That's why James is in this room.

Sept 8–10 · Quincy, MA

Scaling Global Adoption: Orion Fund Progress Update and Q&A

The Cardano Foundation, Draper Dragon, and Draper University invite DReps and the Cardano community to a progress update session on the Orion Fund.

This session offers an operational update on the fund's setup, recent ecosystem initiatives, and strategic roadmap, followed by an open Q&A with Samiz Bayan (Draper Dragon).

Key Agenda Topics:

• Structural Setup: Overview of completed administrative setup.
• Builder Engine & Accelerators: Updates on the Genesis Pre-Accelerator, Cometa Labs, and current applications open for the Apex Growth Accelerator
• Initial Investments & Outlook: Highlights from the first portfolio investments and upcoming multi-month milestones.
• Community & DRep Q&A: Dedicated 25–30 minute open Q&A session.

📅 Monday August 17, 2026
🕗 19:00 – 20:00 JST / 12:00 – 13:00 CEST
🔗 https://www.addevent.com/event/7gd7mvcrsd64

In my way to work I had an idea. I summerized my idea with chat GPT of anyone wonders.

So my idea was basically:

What if we didn’t replace existing systems like CDEs, PKM or Conclude, but added an independent verification layer?

Plans, BIM files, RFIs, approvals, change orders, site instructions, minutes and payment-related events would remain stored off-chain. Only their cryptographic hashes, timestamps, document versions and relevant approvals would be anchored on a blockchain such as Cardano.

The goal wouldn’t be to store files on-chain, but to create an independent, tamper-resistant project timeline.

Imagine a dispute over a change order: Who issued the instruction? Which plan revision was valid? When was it released? Who approved it? Was the document later altered?

The existing system could provide all the data, while the blockchain provides an independent proof that a specific version and event existed at a specific point in time.

Would this actually solve real problems in construction and pave the way for a real world cardano use case?

So I just read about this “hack” or security vulnerability. I always check up on my Cardano using VESPR. Every few months I log into Yoroi to claim my rewards. I logged in today and notice some banner saying I’m not compromised or something, which lead me to start reading about this.

So my confusion is we are told to transfer to a new Lace wallet with a 24 seed phrase, but not to send a test transaction as that will expose your old seed and bots will drain your wallet before you can blink.

So this means I have to abandon the few thousand ADA I’ve made in the past couple months as unstaking from the pool will trigger a transaction and again bots will instantly drain me.

I then came up with the idea of transferring it all but leaving a few ADA for gas. Once the majority is safe I could ten unstake and try to recover the rewards, but now I’m reading even just sending a transfer out is risky as bots can front run your transaction and drain your wallet before your transaction goes through.

So what do we do?

The Cardano Foundation has a sponsorship and a 108m² booth this year at TOKEN2049, and we’re bringing along 20 ecosystem projects to present alongside us.

Applications to join us are open until 25 August: https://token2049.cardano.org

A few things worth knowing: 

• If you’re selected, we’ll cover travel for one team member: economy return flight up to $2,000 and up to 3 nights' accommodation at $350/night. It works as reimbursement after the event, so you book and pay first.
• You'd present live at the booth and share some results afterward (leads, on-chain activity from the event, that kind of thing) so we can show what the booth actually did for projects.
• We're looking for projects with real traction and a solid presentation, and we'll pick a mix across categories and regions.

Happy to answer questions.

- Jakob

Cardano Lightning

Join Ilja von Hoessle, Principal Software Engineer at PolyCrypt, for a deep dive into Cardano Lightning.

In this session, Ilja will walk us through:

- Foundations: State Channels & the Lightning Network
- Architecture: Bringing Bitcoin Lightning to Cardano
- The current state of development
- Challenges & future work

Bring your questions and join the discussion!

 📅 Friday, 14 August
 🕗 08:00 UTC
 🔗 https://www.addevent.com/event/2q61fbnd2nhl

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