According to @ItsDave_ADA, the DAVE Cardano stake pool produced 38 blocks in the current epoch, the highest output for the pool to date. source: https://x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1981761532045279462 @ItsDave_ADA stated that delegators will benefit from increased rewards as a result of the higher block production this epoch. source: https://x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1981761532045279462

According to @ItsDave_ADA, users can manually review and sign transactions in non-custodial wallets on Cardano and he asserts there is no risk of wallet draining when doing so. Source: @ItsDave_ADA on X Cardano staking is non-custodial, ADA remains unlocked and spendable while earning staking rewards, and there are no lock-up or bonding periods. Source: Cardano.org Staking and Delegation; Input Output Global documentation Rewards and delegation status update on epoch schedules rather than lock-based queues, keeping funds available for spending or trading while staking continues. Source: Cardano.org Epochs and Rewards documentation This setup allows ADA holders to keep liquidity for trading or on-chain activity without unbonding delays while still receiving staking rewards. Source: Cardano.org Staking and Delegation

According to @ItsDave_ADA, he cast a YES vote with 38.51 million ADA for the governance action titled Stablecoin DeFi Liquidity Budget to address shallow stablecoin depth on Cardano that causes substantial price impact on swaps, with the transaction publicly viewable under hash ad198b9d881e63d0f26f802b97bd2a8008201bf27bffa0ad474017c45d7fe4a3; Source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 14, 2025; Source: ADAStat transaction ad198b9d881e63d0f26f802b97bd2a8008201bf27bffa0ad474017c45d7fe4a3. According to @ItsDave_ADA, major stablecoin providers have sidelined Cardano and favored ecosystems where they hold vested interests, so he supports strategic self-investment to strengthen Cardano’s liquidity and competitiveness; Source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 14, 2025. According to @ItsDave_ADA, his support is contingent on an outcome-driven plan that prioritizes protocols which have contributed the most liquidity to Cardano, caps funding to a maximum of three DEXs to avoid liquidity fragmentation and reduce price impact, and encourages recipient protocols to open-source batchers for transparency; Source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 14, 2025. According to @ItsDave_ADA, he expects frequent, transparent reporting on treasury replenishment, liquidity growth, and ecosystem performance metrics so the community can assess impact and accountability; Source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 14, 2025.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, Cardano builders are urged to complete the State of the Developer Ecosystem 2025 survey to provide diverse feedback intended to drive positive, targeted changes, and the author notes it only takes a couple of minutes, source: X post by @ItsDave_ADA on Oct 13, 2025. For traders, the author’s framing makes any subsequent communications about targeted changes a relevant item to track for ADA-focused analysis, source: X post by @ItsDave_ADA on Oct 13, 2025. The call references a related post by @_KtorZ_, indicating the survey is being circulated within the Cardano developer community on X, source: link shared in @ItsDave_ADA X post on Oct 13, 2025.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, new development work delivers real-time chain sync for Minswap and SundaeSwap with parallel threading, auto-pool pickup, and full support for V1 and V2 on both DEXs. Source: @ItsDave_ADA. The toolset exposes outgoing swaps, slippage tolerance estimation, expected pool price after batching, and new pool prices, providing traders with live market mechanics across Cardano DEX liquidity pools. Source: @ItsDave_ADA.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, ADA is the scarce native asset that powers the Cardano blockchain and serves as both a store of value and the network’s economic fuel for an inclusive, utility-driven financial system. According to @ItsDave_ADA, Cardano aims to remove barriers of geography, identity, and financial history to enable equitable participation in the digital economy. According to the source, the post is a narrative positioning update and does not disclose new metrics, timelines, or tokenomic changes, so no explicit short-term trading catalyst was announced. According to the source, no price guidance, TVL, or on-chain KPI data were included.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, a side-project script successfully ran automatic pool discovery and auto-detected and extracted incoming and outgoing swaps on Cardano DEXs Minswap v1 and v2 and SundaeSwap v1 and v3 (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 12, 2025). The author presented it as a working demo and did not provide a public repository, release timeline, or performance metrics in the post (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 12, 2025).

According to @ItsDave_ADA, Demeter.run is recommended for Cardano builders seeking reliable blockchain services and comprehensive documentation, enabling teams to skip the complexity of running and understanding services and jump straight into building, source: Dave on X, Oct 12, 2025. According to Electric Capital, developer activity is a leading indicator of ecosystem growth that traders track when assessing network health, linking improved developer tooling to potential increases in application development and on-chain activity, source: Electric Capital 2023 Developer Report. According to @ItsDave_ADA, the post does not include price action, on-chain metrics, or adoption statistics, so traders should treat it as a builder tooling signal rather than a direct market data update, source: Dave on X, Oct 12, 2025.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, the DAVE stake pool is stable and operational on the Midnight testnet with 157 blocks produced so far (source: @ItsDave_ADA). According to @ItsDave_ADA, infrastructure resources for mainnet have been planned and reserved to support launch readiness (source: @ItsDave_ADA). According to @ItsDave_ADA, DAVE delegators will earn dual rewards in NIGHT and ADA, confirming a two-token incentive structure (source: @ItsDave_ADA). According to @ItsDave_ADA, the DAVE pool has climbed from a 1000+ rank at inception to the top 67 across Cardano stake pools, indicating significant growth in operator standing (source: @ItsDave_ADA). According to @ItsDave_ADA, traders tracking ADA and NIGHT can monitor this operational progress and the dual-reward setup for staking allocation decisions (source: @ItsDave_ADA).

According to @ItsDave_ADA, only 1 day remains to vote in Cardano’s Catalyst Fund 14, with two OgmiosDotnet proposals seeking community support for developer tooling. source: @ItsDave_ADA The first proposal introduces an event-driven approach to Cardano transactions that enables shared infrastructure, reduces reliance on specific Ogmios SDKs, supports horizontal scaling, and provides visualization tools to demonstrate these capabilities. source: @ItsDave_ADA The second proposal extends prior chain-sync work to enable real-time Ogmios-based queries for stake pool stake and pledge, UTxOs by address, treasury reserves, and active governance proposals with ratification states, along with direct transaction submission via .NET. source: @ItsDave_ADA The .NET package is described as plug-and-play with close to 3000 downloads, and both proposals are open-source with intended benefits for the .NET ecosystem and the broader Cardano community. source: @ItsDave_ADA Voters are directed to search itsdave in the Catalyst Voting app to locate and support the proposals. source: @ItsDave_ADA

According to @ItsDave_ADA, Cardano launched on-chain governance not even a year ago and hundreds of people worldwide stepped up to represent the ecosystem, with participation currently unfunded and passion driven; source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 4, 2025. The post highlights recent progress in budget spending and decentralized collaboration as key differentiators of Cardano’s community-led model; source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 4, 2025. The author adds that a roadmap of innovation has been unlocked and funded proposals are already well underway; source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 4, 2025. For ADA traders, the concrete milestones cited are on-chain governance participation, budget spending progress, and funded proposal rollout; source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 4, 2025.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, the DAVE stake pool reached #67 in the CEXPLORER stake pool ranking across all Cardano pools on Oct 4, 2025, source: @ItsDave_ADA. The ranking can be independently checked on CEXPLORER, which publishes live stake pool positions and related on-chain data, source: CEXPLORER. The author adds that operating a Cardano stake pool remains possible, sustainable and inclusive, which is presented as the author's opinion, source: @ItsDave_ADA. No further performance metrics were disclosed in the post, such as live stake, return on ADA, blocks produced or saturation, source: @ItsDave_ADA.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, the DAVE stake pool has produced 147 blocks on the Midnight testnet (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X). According to @ItsDave_ADA, the pool is a stable, active validator and is ready for the Midnight mainnet (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X). According to @ItsDave_ADA, delegators will soon earn dual rewards in NIGHT and ADA by staking with DAVE (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X).

According to @ItsDave_ADA, Cardano’s treasury stands at $1.37 billion and the project is described as extremely well-funded as of Oct 2, 2025, signaling a sizable financial buffer for the ecosystem (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 2, 2025). For traders, the reported treasury size may be viewed as a positive sentiment driver for ADA if accurate, given the author’s emphasis on strong funding for future development and operations (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 2, 2025). The post does not include independent verification, so market participants should confirm the figure via official Cardano channels before positioning around ADA news flow (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 2, 2025).

According to @ItsDave_ADA, the DAVE stake pool has produced 1,597 blocks and reached its highest-ever delegation, source: @ItsDave_ADA, Sep 30, 2025. The author reported being an active and consistent validator on the Midnight testnet and said the Midnight mainnet is on the horizon, source: @ItsDave_ADA, Sep 30, 2025. The author added that delegators are expected to earn NIGHT rewards alongside ADA once the Midnight mainnet goes live, which could affect staking allocation decisions for ADA holders, source: @ItsDave_ADA, Sep 30, 2025. Traders tracking ADA and prospective NIGHT exposure may monitor delegation growth and validator activity as on-chain signals into the mainnet phase, source: @ItsDave_ADA, Sep 30, 2025.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, for Google to operate a Midnight validator, it would need to run a Cardano mainnet stake pool with enough ADA delegation to be effective. source: @ItsDave_ADA on X. Cardano stake pools earn block-producing opportunities based on total delegated stake and are constrained by saturation thresholds, making delegation size operationally critical. source: Input Output Global Cardano staking documentation. For traders, verifying any enterprise pool registration and monitoring on-chain ADA delegation flows can confirm whether such participation is occurring. source: CardanoScan and PoolTool on-chain dashboards.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, ADA is sound digital money and a store of value like BTC, stated in an X post dated Sep 27, 2025 (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X). The source advances a store-of-value narrative for ADA but provides no corroborating market evidence such as price action, volume, or on-chain metrics for validation (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X). From a trading perspective, this should be classified as opinion-driven sentiment rather than a data-backed catalyst until supported by independent metrics or disclosures (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X).

According to @ItsDave_ADA on X on Sep 27, 2025 via https://x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1971520769717846429 and https://x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1972042525574590786, Cardano’s .NET ecosystem historically lacked open-source tooling, making even basic transaction access difficult for new developers. According to @ItsDave_ADA on X on Sep 27, 2025 via https://x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1971520769717846429, he built OgmiosDotnet, a plug-and-play .NET package for Cardano that is nearing 3,000 downloads, highlighting concrete demand for .NET tooling on the network. According to @ItsDave_ADA on X on Sep 27, 2025 via https://x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1971520769717846429, he notes parallel contributions from builders like @saibdev and collaboration with .NET developer @clarkalesna to bridge gaps in accessibility. According to @ItsDave_ADA on X on Sep 27, 2025 via https://x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1971520769717846429, he urges support for Project Catalyst proposals to fund critical tooling and make Cardano powerful, accessible, and developer friendly across major languages, which he states is key to attracting new talent and growing the ecosystem.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, Cardano is a global, permissionless blockchain governed by ADA holders and backed by a $1.3 billion treasury, highlighting potential scale for ecosystem funding; source: @ItsDave_ADA on X (Sep 27, 2025). Cardano’s treasury is protocol-based, funded by fees and monetary expansion, with allocations decided through community voting processes involving ADA holders (e.g., Project Catalyst), making governance cycles and treasury disbursements transparent on-chain; source: Input Output Global (IOG) documentation; Cardano Foundation materials. For trading relevance, governance proposals, voting windows, and treasury disbursement announcements represent concrete events that schedule funding flows to projects across the Cardano ecosystem, providing time-specific signals to monitor network activity and potential liquidity shifts in ADA pairs; source: Input Output Global (IOG) governance and treasury documentation.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, ADA is a top-10 scarce digital asset with a market cap of $28 billion that powers the Cardano blockchain, secures the network via proof-of-stake, fuels a growing decentralized-application ecosystem, and enables governance by giving holders a voice in shaping Cardano’s future, source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Sep 27, 2025. The post frames these fundamentals as key points for traders to monitor when evaluating ADA’s positioning and utility, source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Sep 27, 2025.