2025-06-16

Brief Whiteboard on CSWF

26 entries

Frames a whiteboard on the Sovereign Wealth Fund, noting Cardano's treasury is passive, single asset, and unmanaged with about 1.7 billion ADA.

Governance & Catalyst

Introduces alpha, the percentage of the treasury to actively manage, whether 10, 20, or 30 percent.

Governance & Catalyst active management

Warns a single asset treasury is unsafe: when ADA fell from 3 dollars to 25 cents, its buying power dropped from nearly 5 billion.

Governance & Catalyst

Lists treasury goals of wealth creation, liquidity, and ecosystem growth measured by KPIs like transaction volume, TVL, and active users.

Governance & Catalyst total value locked

A multi asset treasury holding other ecosystems' assets makes strategic partnerships easier, like owning a board seat.

Ecosystem & Partnerships

The 100 million stablecoin concept with instruments like iUSD CDPs, the algorithmic DJED, and asset backed USDM and USDA.

Governance & Catalyst stable coin

A three step process starting with divestment via time weighted average pricing or OTC iceberging to exit without moving the market.

Governance & Catalyst TWAP

30 percent of Bitcoin is held by institutions, and divesting 100 million ADA would take 30 to 90 days through OTC desks.

Crypto Industry & Commentary BTC

Billions in ADA change hands weekly so the markets are deep enough to divest, and firms like Wade charge 25 to 100 basis points.

Crypto Industry & Commentary liquidity

The purchase and placement steps, buying alternative assets and placing them into DeFi via a regulated treasury manager.

Governance & Catalyst decentralized finance

Gives yield examples: real world assets like a SpaceX launch insurance deal, and tokenizing RealFi's 18 percent loans on chain.

Ecosystem & Partnerships on-chainonchain

A headline that Cardano goes all in on Bitcoin would prime Bitcoin DeFi, but Cardano has only 33 million in stablecoins, a 9.8 percent ratio versus Solana's 110 percent and Ethereum's 198 percent.

Ecosystem & Partnerships BTCETHdecentralized finance +1

Asks where profits go: reinvest into more assets, or buy ADA and return it to the treasury.

Governance & Catalyst

Cites the A16Z post on the death of foundations and new structures like the Wyoming Duna DAO used for the Midnight Foundation.

A layered organization: a Duna DAO with a governing board controlling an offshore BVI or Cayman entity that holds the ADA.

The governing board would be elected by ADA holders with finance backgrounds, plus an audit layer and a liquidation path back to ADA.

Governance & Catalyst

Alpha can start at 10 percent of the 170 million ADA and grow to 20 percent over time, enabling strategic partnerships and DeFi liquidity.

Governance & Catalyst decentralized finance

The treasury becomes multi asset anyway via Babel fees, becoming an AVS with Midnight, and a possible 20 percent Bitcoin DeFi tax.

Cardano Tech & Research BTCdecentralized finance

Every big crypto entity does treasury management, from Ripple to the Solana and Avalanche foundations, and how BlackRock, MicroStrategy, and Grayscale acquire holdings.

Crypto Industry & Commentary XRPSOL

ADA has survived billions in divestments, so a 100 million exit will not collapse it, and the real problem is a weak stablecoin ecosystem.

Crypto Industry & Commentary divestmentstablecoinsstable coin

He has no dog in the fight but is frustrated when people treat his objective knowledge of OTC desks and market makers as mere opinion.

Company & Team expertise

Cites the Japanese whales who bought at 0.2 cents and sold at dollar increments, and Phil from Emurgo who ran this function in Singapore.

Crypto Industry & Commentary

The 600 million theft accusation after 8 years of doing the right thing broke something in him, so he will no longer coddle people.

Company & Team

He will submit a governance action for active management at Rare Evo, and if his ideas are rejected he will retire, with no ego.

Governance & Catalyst RareEvo

Cardano has technological superiority but not governance superiority or investment momentum, and must act decisively to reach number one.

Governance & Catalyst

The industry does not take 33 million in stablecoins or 330 million TVL seriously, and the ecosystem can fix the numbers or keep playing victim.

Crypto Industry & Commentary total value locked