Get Your Feet Wet in the Cardano (ADA) Ecosystem

The Cardano Community is Amazing because of integrity, honesty, and passion for the Cardano Vision.  The community is made up of people who educate, inform, and add value to the ecosystem. To understand the ecosystem it helps to know the activities that are ongoing in the ecosystem.

Get to know Cardano Foundation, Catalyst, IOHK, Stake Pool Operators/Insights, Developer and Technical Insights, NFTs and NFTs as Art, and more.  There are lot of other projects.

Cardano are focused on banking the underbanked and connecting the under connected.

Tunatoshii:

Cardano Foundation: Is a non-profit body looking to develop the ecosystem. Frederik Gregaard is the CEO; Jeremey Firster is focused on partnerships at the foundation, KtorZ is the Open-Source Technical director.

Catalyst:  Is a community driven innovation fund, financed by the treasury. Everyone has a say as they vote with their ADA stake.

Daniel Ribar is one of the members of the Hatchin project focused on the largest innovation fund which is run on the Cardano blockchain.

Kriss Baird is a Catalyst Product Owner and he is the Product Manager at IOHK.

IOHK:  Are Primary developers of the core Cardano Architecture.

John O’ Connor is focusing on driving adoption in Africa it is not a small task and it is a must follow.

Tim Harrison is the face of monthly Cardano 360 updates, glasses and more.

John Woods is the Director of Cardano Architecture those who want to know more about scaling and tech roadmap updates should follow him.

Lars Brunjes is the director of education at Plutus Pioneer Program

Charles Hoskinson is the CEO who actively engages in You Tube and AMA updates.

Stakepool Operators:  Some of them operate multiple pools and some operate single pools.

Community Contributors:  And, there are several hundreds of community contributors and each of them are personalities in their own way. The list is long.  There are several hundred contributors.

The above is a sneak peak to get feet wet in the Cardano ecosystem.

The new excitement in the ecosystem is Genius X, which is the accelerator program empowering Cardano Startups.  The accelerator program helps early-stage startups gain speed, scale and edge. They are focused on providing early-stage blockchain startups with relevant tools, consulting services, and investment to build blockchain-based companies within the ecosystem. Startups need to connect with investors and need technical mentorship and business guidance.  Genius X makes it all possible.

Noteworthy, there are more than $100 million worth in ADA, which has been delegated to the ISPO of Cardano-based accelerator program Genius X.

ISPO is the Cardano ecosystem’s crowdfunding equivalent of an initial coin offering (ICO). ADA stakers delegate tokens to pools and exchange staking rewards for a project’s native token. The ISPO is non-custodial and this means investors will be able to reclaim their delegated ADA at any stage.