It's Monday, June 16th, 2025. While some of you babble on about feelings, ego, narcissism, and whatever else makes you feel psychological safety, others are coding, investing, partnering, and trading.

We aren't in a static game with a guaranteed seat at the table. We are in an ocean of sharks trying to eat us every day. They poach our people and DApps. They have unfair advantages with VCs and the Media. They cut corners with their protocols and software to speed up time to market.

We have the decide if we want to win. If we are serious about having a billion users. If we actually want Cardano in every home.

After all this dust settles, Cardano still has a stablecoin issue. Only 33 million has been deployed on chain. We have a means to fix it. Calling me names, egotistical, a cancer, or dictatorial isn't going to solve that Objective reality.

You'll just have me working on my ranch not caring anymore and the same 33 million issued. There aren't Genesis keys anymore. You're all going to have to figure out if you want to solve problems or just complain about them.

Growing up is hard, but that's where we are at as an ecosystem. It's tough love, but I'd be doing you all a disservice if I didn't say it.