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,>> If you saw an ADA card at a normal store, what would make you trust it?
If it was connected to something that we already trust. A "trusted partner"

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Hey Cardano folks — I’m looking for honest feedback on a physical “Cardano card” concept.
**Quick context / credit where it’s due**:
I know this space already has real groundwork — especially VESPR + Proof of Onboarding (POO / CIP-99). That system is already proven at event onboarding (scan → create wallet → scan unique QR → claim a starter airdrop).
What I’m exploring is \*similar in spirit\* but different in goal:
A proof-of-concept for a RETAIL-FRIENDLY product — something that could realistically sit near a checkout counter and feel normal to buy/gift.
**What I made**:
\- A small prototype “card series”
\- An ADA concept card
\- A HOSKY “chaos” card concept (because... Cardano culture 😅)
\- A short video explaining the idea + why I think “giftable onboarding” matters
**Video**: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCkWBieh\_zo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCkWBieh_zo)
**What I’m NOT doing in this post**:
\- Not asking for money
\- Not asking you to buy anything
\- Not trying to claim I invented onboarding cards
**What I AM trying to learn**:
\- If you saw an ADA card at a normal store, what would make you trust it?
**Specific questions**:
1) Security/trust: What MUST be true for this to not feel scammy?
\- tamper-evident packaging?
\- scratch-off / sealed code?
\- on-chain proof / verifiable redemption page?
2) Redemption UX: Should it be wallet-agnostic (my goal), or build on CIP-99 style flows?
3) Who should custody the funds (if any) before redemption? What’s the least-worst model?
4) Amounts/fees: Should cards be “tiny starter amounts” only, or real gift-card denominations?
5) Retail reality: What issues am I ignoring (returns, chargebacks, regulations, support)?
6) HOSKY angle: fun onramp or distraction?
**My working plan** (very open to critique):
Start with a small HOSKY run as a low-stakes way to test packaging + redemption + support and hand out at crypto events.
If that proves out, explore the bigger “ADA card at retail” concept and eventually a community treasury model to fund production/distribution responsibly. (The treasury would guarantee the funds for each card were preallocated, allow for 90 day returns from stores (i.e. buybacks) etc.)
If you’ve done POO deployments, worked booths, or dealt with onboarding normal humans: I’d LOVE your “this will fail because \_\_\_” list or any lessons learned!!

Hi All! I’m into cryptocurrencies but admittedly not techie-enough. I want to get into the business but is looking at selling “picks and shovels” instead of doing the mining. I want to play it safe as I’ve lost some of my stash on AltCoins when I got into staking. While I’m still at it today, I’m not confident in doubling down on what I still have to date. I particularly want my SATS to earn for me instead of just sitting on my Ledger. I’m looking into P2P lending but having second thoughts; I might get bogged down by regulatory issues and other technical hurdles. Is there anybody doing it here where I can safely park it and earn on the side? Or do you guys have any other safe suggestions? I also have ADA, ALGO, XLM and LINK.

My bags are in ADA SOL DOT AVAX MANA SAND POL

I'm staking ADA. Hodling SOL and XRP. There's a new coin that I found, team is building an ecosystem of financial transaction:RYO. Research before any moves.

SOL, MATIC, ADA, LINK, AVAX, ATOM, FIL, and Arbitrum – strong fundamentals, real use cases, and long-term potential.

What's next for ADA holders? Crying

i have ADA who will eventually reach ATH, we will be okay.

MON or ADA?

It's been crawling closer to ADA but so far it has always escaped the flip. However, while the market is flopping around BCH has grown a new strength that cannot be explained by the charts and has to be looked for in the fundamentals.

ADA

Besides BTC and ADA, my only play is pyre (ex 2omb on steroids). But it’s currently too much of a fringe for anyone to care. It doesn’t matter. Book mark this. A year from now you would have wished you took action. But you won’t lol.

Hey everyone,
I spent the last 6 months building DEFINTEL - a blockchain intelligence platform. Launching tomorrow and genuinely want feedback before I pull the trigger.
**The backstory:**
I wanted on-chain analytics but couldn't justify $800/month for Glassnode Advanced or enterprise quotes from Chainalysis/Nansen. So I built my own. Started as a personal project, turned into... this.
What it actually does:
DEFINTEL Intelligence Overview - Real-time blockchain intelligence across 85B records. Live whale tracking, dormant supply monitoring, exchange flow detection, and AI chat interface. Currently showing BTC with 974K whales tracked and 57M dormant coins.
* **Whale Tracking** \- 2.1M+ wallets classified by holdings across 11 chains
* **Dormant Wallet Alerts** \- Track wallets that haven't moved in 5-14+ years (yes, including potential Satoshi-era coins)
* **Exchange Flow** \- Inflows/outflows to detect accumulation or sell pressure
* **Chart Analytics** \- RSI, MACD, Bollinger overlaid with on-chain metrics (NVT, velocity, etc.)
* **AI Chat Interface** \- Ask questions in plain English instead of writing queries
**Chains covered:** BTC, ETH, LTC, DOGE, DASH, BCH, MATIC, ETC, ADA, BAND, ZIL
**The data:**
\~84 billion records, \~40TB. Every transaction, input, output indexed and enriched. I run my own nodes for the POW chains.
**Pricing I'm considering:**
* Free tier (BTC only, 100 whales, 50 dormant wallets)
* $5/month - Basic multi-chain
* $29/month - Full whale intelligence
* $69/month - API access + exports
* $149/month - Research tier
* $499/month - Enterprise/Forensics
**What I'm unsure about:**
1. Is the free tier too limited or about right?
2. Does the $5-29 jump make sense, or should there be something in between?
3. Which chains would you actually want that I'm missing? (Solana is on the roadmap)
4. What's the ONE feature that would make you actually pay for this?
**What I'm NOT doing:**
* No token, no "utility coin," no Discord alpha group
* No promises about price predictions
* No fake urgency tactics
I built this because I wanted it to exist. Now I'm trying to figure out if anyone else does.
**Link:** [https://defintel.net](https://defintel.net/) (you can poke around the dashboard with a free account)
Roast it, tear it apart, tell me what's missing. I'd rather hear it now than after launch.
 
 

Believed in it till this year. Good luck getting mass adaptation. Bitcoin was at 125k and had no social interest. I didnt sell my alts when it topped twice in 2021 and I regret it. Kept quiet and DCA every 1-2 months and im happy to sell all at approx. 80% profit so i couldnt care less. 2x my btc holdings and sold XRP at 5x even when it crashed. Just unlucky i was deep in ETH and ADA which barely moved.

I had problems with yoroi I wanted nite tokens and ARE drop wanted unused address wallet could not generate a new address so screw it I went to Eternal all my ADA came on across to Eternal stake with the same staking pool when you bridge to new wallet

Sitter i samma båt med ADA med 6,6kr AVG. Alts kommer vända när vi minst anar det. Sitt lugnt

I’m an ADA holder for 5 years - it’s the first time ever that I feel that ADA is completely wasted and on the way to becoming a shitcoin with no retail or institutional respect or consideration.
My god! Any ADA holders that feel the same ?

All the dino coins like ADA, XRP, DOT. They all have basically no users and provide nothing of value in the new cycles

I'm holding some cardano, just because the last time crypto was in politics ADA was being championed. I expect it to pop with the clarity act and speculate it will hit over $1 again.
That said, I've been averaging down for a good while now and might just end up a bagholder.

Swap all my BTC to ADA, got it