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From Cardano Mainnet to the global policing ecosystem. 🔥 Presented FMS & PFMS to INTERPOL, Europol, German police, and European public prosecutors at the Tax and Crime Summit. 🇪🇺 The response was overwhelmingly positive, with incredible interest from the policing ecosystem. Blockchain solving real world problems. Governments taking notice. Cardano making its mark. We’re only getting started. The future is exciting!

Dear Cardano and all the DRep's who already voted & are about to vote: Please consider this as an answer to multiple questions and statements directed towards @trivolvetech ‘s PFMS. 1. Statement: "Why should the Cardano Treasury pay to develop a police system for a single state government?” A. The treasury will not be funding one single state government. This is a common misconception I have seen circulating around the ecosystem. This is absolutely false. PFMS is being built as an open-source public good on Cardano that has huge potential to be adopted globally. The first agreed user is an Indian state government. This will add weight and provide humongous value to the product and will open multiple doors for a wider adoption at scale. 2. Statement: It is “simple record-keeping” project A. PFMS is not simply a record keeping project. It is designed to prove what a record originally was, when it was created, which device produced it, which authorised officer was responsible for it, and whether anything changed afterwards. And it does this across the entire chain of evidence. The difference is important. PFMS does not just store records. It creates a verifiable history by binding records to device and officer identity, detects missing or altered records, preserves versions, and applies stage specific rules through Cardano smart contracts. So when evidence is challenged years later, with PFMS, the evidence can prove that it is the same record that existed at that point in time. That problem is not confined to one state or one country. It is a challenge faced by justice systems around the world. Record keeping stores information. PFMS makes the integrity, history and chain of evidence verifiable. 3. Statement: It doesn’t drive any significant value to Cardano( what kind of amazing credibility Cardano gets from uploading records from some local police station) A. It definitely brings significant value and immense credibility to Cardano. With the first user alone, PFMS will generate 1.5 + million transactions on Cardano mainnet in just the 1st year which grow YOY with adoption. On top of that, PFMS also generates revenue through its verification layer. All of this revenue is new money flowing into the Cardano ecosystem. Also, we have never claimed that Cardano gains credibility simply from uploading records from a local police station. The credibility comes when Cardano becomes part of a full state scale deployment, where government departments depend on it as part of their day to day operational SOPs. That is where the real credibility comes from. It shows that Cardano is not just capable of processing transactions, but can operate as a trust layer underneath critical government infrastructure at scale. And all of this credibility will be built just from the first user of PFMS. 4. Statement: Transactions get batched, and agencies will push batch sizes as high as they can to cut costs. A. The government don’t want to batch transactions into fewer transactions. As the longer a batch remains off chain, the longer that evidence is prone to tampering. For that reason, the existing architecture is designed around how quickly the evidence needs to be secured on Cardano. The batching intervals are randomised for security reasons, so a bad actor wouldn't know the exact batching interval. From the government’s perspective, paying for a higher number of transactions is cheaper than having to prove that the evidence was not tampered. As it is quite an expensive and time consuming process for the government to revisit the whole case and the investigation cycle again. Due to this the government prefers to pay for larger numbers of tx’s rather than batching them into fewer tx’s. I respectfully ask all DReps and the community to go through the PFMS proposal in detail. If you have any questions, I am more than happy to answer them. Thank you. 🙏

Imagine being this bad ass in a public forum full of public servants. Absolutely no lies told.

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SPO voting made insanely easy 🔥 especially if your cold key is on a Ledger. PoolMan now has a Governance section 🗳️ and you can easily see open actions and vote for them - both with a Ledger and manual airgap signing. We aim to offer the very easiest way of operating a Cardano stake pool. Mithril signing and Midnight BP is up next ⚙️

Hi everyone!! Our first public (beta) release of cardano-init is out! 🥳🎉 This tool creates new projects ready to go; it encodes how Cardano tools fit together, analyzes and helps you set up the environment, and more! We're making it easy to build new Cardano DApps for newcomers and LLM agents alike! 🤖 This is an early beta release; we haven’t integrated all the tools, we can still make a lot of changes, and we have many improvements in the pipeline! Be sure to check out our plan/roadmap (in the repo) and share your thoughts! 💪😄 Check it out here: github.com/input-output-hk/c…

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The Catalyst community review scores are in 🚀 PoolMan Free Tier proposal received awesome scores: - Impact: 4.1 - Feasibility: 4.1 - Value for money: 4.4 Which SPOs deserves 6 months of free pool operations? Tag them below to let them know about it 🔥 projectcatalyst.io/funds/14/…

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