2026-06-04
No I am not leaving
- A reassurance that he is okay and not leaving Cardano, after a toxicity analysis showed nearly one in three replies to him are hostile or abusive, with signs of coordination.
- He is stepping back from X and public videos to reflect, because the platform has become a toxic hellscape that takes a real psychological toll.
- His passions are banking the unbanked, programmable Bitcoin, privacy, and hard problems like the trilemma, not making the ADA price go up for speculators.
- It is a tale of two Cardanos: massively ahead on engineering and decentralization, yet in the toilet at 18 cents and called a dead project.
- The path forward needs exoduses from X and from unaccountable management, a new roadmap, and three principles: a singular vision, aligned incentives, and the ability to fire people.
- His deepest regret is creating the unaccountable Cardano Foundation structure, and Cardano must transcend a crypto industry whose brand is damaged beyond repair.
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A quick video to reassure everyone, including journalists as far as Bloomberg, that he is okay and not leaving or resigning from Cardano.
A toxicity analysis of 130 replies found nearly one in three hostile or abusive, with coordination signals like identical phrases and thin anonymous accounts.
It is impossible to meaningfully engage on a platform where a third of replies are personal insults, financial accusations, and legal threats.
He wanted to leave X in 2025, but it is the only place with timely, unfiltered, balanced news, often hours ahead of the mainstream.
He looked at building an AI bot to run his X interface, but the license agreement and algorithm downranking of labeled bots make it hard.
His passions are banking the unbanked with RealFi, making Bitcoin programmable, and privacy and proofs, not raising the ADA price.
He is not passionate about pumping the ADA price or the TVL and transaction KPIs, and has never accepted that as his job.
He is passionate about solving hard problems like the trilemma, which Leios addresses, and about deep research he thought was Cardano's soul.
Vitalik took Ethereum to a quarter trillion dollars and is still called a failure, showing you can never win the game of token go up.
Cryptocurrencies have to be about more than avarice and a portfolio, or they are no different from SpaceX stock, Microsoft stock, or gold.
It is a tale of two Cardanos: massively ahead on protocols, engineering, and decentralization since 2021, yet in the toilet at 18 cents.
If only money matters you lose everyone including him, but if science, philosophy, and changing the world matter, people will invest their lives.
The path forward needs exoduses: first the community leaving the toxic hellscape of X.
Second, an exodus from management that shrugs as JPEG Store and Tap Tools fail, pointing at the Cardano Foundation community lead's tweets.
Third, a new roadmap, since the dissonance comes from having no destination like Byron, Shelley, and Basho once gave the community.
Cardano is not a protocol or a token but the people behind it, so anything can be rebuilt or renamed except the rank and file holders who matter.
He will take time away, keep working on Midnight, stop public videos and interviews, and stay off X to reflect and recover.
His red line is being treated with respect, refusing to keep being called fat, a sociopath, or evil by anonymous cowards.
Any strategy needs three principles: a singular vision everyone funded must follow, aligned incentives, and structures that can fire people.
His biggest career regret is inadvertently creating a Cardano Foundation structure that ADA holders cannot hold accountable at any level.
To the podcasters dancing on Cardano's grave, shame on them, since a real project can survive anything, even the loss of its founder.
Cardano has to transcend a cryptocurrency industry whose brand is damaged beyond repair by meme coins, scams, and Trump coin.
To those who showed love and support, that light has been immensely helpful in the darkness and means the world to him.