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I am dedicated to advancing a decentralized, innovative future for Cardano by championing: - Decentralized Governance: Strengthen both network and governance decentralization, ensuring resilience and minimizing central control. - BTC-ADA Synergy: Uphold Bitcoin as the ultimate store of value while positioning Cardano as the premier platform for DeFi, identity, and next-generation applications, ADA as transaction layer for BTC. - Strategic Treasury Allocation: Advocate for funding that drives core blockchain development, governance enhancements, and effective marketing to boost ecosystem adoption. - Privacy & Security: Support privacy-enhancing solutions like Midnight to protect user data and enable secure, confidential governance participation. - DeFi Leadership: Promote the expansion of stablecoins, lending protocols, and decentralized identity solutions, solidifying Cardano’s role as the primary financial infrastructure. I will be acting in accordance with above core principles.
Objectives
I am dedicated to advancing a decentralized, innovative future for Cardano by championing: - Decentralized Governance: Strengthen both network and governance decentralization, ensuring resilience and minimizing central control. - BTC-ADA Synergy: Uphold Bitcoin as the ultimate store of value while positioning Cardano as the premier platform for DeFi, identity, and next-generation applications, ADA as transaction layer for BTC. - Strategic Treasury Allocation: Advocate for funding that drives core blockchain development, governance enhancements, and effective marketing to boost ecosystem adoption. - Privacy & Security: Support privacy-enhancing solutions like Midnight to protect user data and enable secure, confidential governance participation. - DeFi Leadership: Promote the expansion of stablecoins, lending protocols, and decentralized identity solutions, solidifying Cardano’s role as the primary financial infrastructure. I will be acting in accordance with above core principles.
Motivations
My journey in blockchain spans 7 years—with 4 dedicated to Cardano—and over 30 years of observing the Internet’s evolution. With 25 years as a web developer, experience in machine learning, and a passion for history, I’ve deeply explored the nature of money, monetary policy, and governance, as well as the enduring principles of Bitcoin. Witnessing the shortcomings in today’s financial, corporate, governance, and banking systems—and recognizing the transformative potential (and risks) of the AI era—I believe that a decentralized, resilient framework is essential. Cardano and Bitcoin aren’t just innovative alternatives; they’re necessary foundations for a better, more equitable future in governance, finance, and identity.
Qualifications
Over 25 years in web development and programming. 10 years of blockchain experience, including 4 years focused on Cardano. Extensive research into monetary policy, governance, and the principles of Bitcoin. More than 30 years of following the Internet’s evolution and its impact on society. Background in machine learning and a strong historical perspective on governance, financial, monetary, technological and corporate systems.
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Cardano Constitutional Dept Workstreams
This proposal establishes a Governance Workstream Consortium which establishes decentralized execution framework, ROM Multisig Model, to support the delivery of constitutional dept workstreams in Cardano. Its core aim is to ensure that budgeted governance tasks are completed verifiably, transparently, and without relying on a single administrator.
Safer, Smarter Cardano: From Personal Loss to Community Protections
In my early crypto journey, I fell for a scam that cost me $1,700—a loss born not from ignorance, but misplaced confidence. I believed I could outwit deception by changing the script. I couldn’t. That moment taught me that even intelligent users are vulnerable in a system that offers no safety net. What kept me grounded was Cardano: its mission of research, patience, and principled design. That mission is why I stayed. Yet Cardano’s openness and decentralization, while empowering, also expose users to hidden dangers: cloned tokens, misleading branding, and overhyped projects. This proposal introduces a framework for improving wallet-layer safety and trust, including UI enhancements, opt-in transparency tools, and a community-reviewed case study examining the breakdown of post-ISO trust.
Ironlight: Tokenization Marketplace for Traditional Finance
Ironlight is bringing Tokenization to TradFi. This is done by creating a fully regulated secondary trading venue for tokenized Real World Assets (RWA). The RWAs are private market funds, company equity and real estate. Ironlight is different from most other players in 3 major aspects: 1. Liquidity: Ironlight has secured 4 major institutions to backstop trading. Additionally, RIAs & Wealth Advisors from the major banks are market participants. 2. Sponsor Access Model: The Alternative Trading System (ATS) allows for trading & settling between anyone in the US financial system not just within it’s own network. This allows for dramatically more participants and thus facilitates liquidity. 3. Institutional Grade Technology: Built from the ground up, the technology can process 2 million messages per second at 20 microseconds per transaction. Additionally, built under Reg SCI. The technology was built at the same standard Wall Street expects for Public Market ATS/Exchanges.
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