Cardano Finally Gets a Plan
- Mike Adamemes
- Dec 1, 2025
- 2 min read
It started like any other day on Crypto Twitter.Somewhere between frogs and FUD, Charles turned on his webcam and dropped Cardano’s boldest governance move yet: Five teams, one plan, and a dApp built to outlive your bags.
The Problem? There are five. And they all talk at once.
In under an hour, Charles dropped more signal than most DApp teams ship in six months.
The Pentad: 5 entities, one shared goal. (CF, IOG, Emurgo, Intersect, Midnight)
Executive power: Not a king a coordinated mess.
DApp Showcase: 10–15 top projects that need serious backing, financially, technically, and strategically.
Midnight: The secret sauce. DeFi + privacy = DeFi without snitches.
Growth Metrics: MAU, TX/day, TVL proposed as official ecosystem KPIs for the first time.
Try Before You Buy, for the whole chain
The Pentad isn't just a theory, it's already in motion. Deals have been inked. Announcements are coming. Maybe even in Abu Dhabi.
The goal? Build the critical infrastructure Cardano skipped for years, bridges, oracles, stablecoins and finally compete with ETH and SOL, on our own terms.
RealFi: The dApp for When It All Goes to Hell
Cardano never left Africa.
“Over a million loans given in Kenya and Uganda.”
RealFi is a native Cardano dApp designed to survive a bear market, because its yield comes from the real world, not tokenomics theater.When DeFi dries up, RealFi keeps dripping.
That’s not a meme. That’s a USP.
OK, We Have Structure. Now We Grow.
To help those showcase dApps thrive, they need:
Capital
Talent
UX that doesn’t suck
Tier 1 exchange listings
Hydra for Solana-level speed
And a spoonful of Midnight for privacy
That’s why Charles is proposing:
Bi-weekly hackathons, faster DevEx, more builders
A unified KPI dashboard, so budgets follow data, not vibes
Community aggregation outside of X, because bots aren’t culture
Institutional seminars and outreach, because no one knows what Cardano is doing
And all of this, without needing a "king."This executive function is delegated, accountable, and revocable.
Ethereum? Centralized trust. Solana? Backroom decisions. Bitcoin? Frozen in time.
Cardano?Is trying to talk. In public. On a whiteboard.
As Charles puts it:
“This would never happen on Ethereum. They do this behind closed doors.”
So We Watch, We Listen, and We Wonder:
What if the weirdest chain in crypto, actually has the best plan?
What if this time... the executive function actually works?
And what if, for once, Cardano doesn't back down when things get complicated?
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