According to @ItsDave_ADA, a YES vote using 37.65 million ADA was cast on the Cardano governance action CARDANO BLOCKCHAIN ECOSYSTEM CONSTITUTION v2.4, with transaction evidence provided, source: x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/2011178384639082536 and adastat.net/transactions/80c24fd5d27d29d5a227765f5d2596be683a912fdbf1129df2743345b1ad0e9b. According to @ItsDave_ADA, the stated rationale for the YES vote is to mature governance by removing redundant Budget Info Actions, preserving fiscal discipline via universal audit safeguards, and enforcing immutable proposal documents while commending the proposal creator for incorporating community feedback, source: x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/2011178384639082536. According to @ItsDave_ADA, a NO vote using 37.71 million ADA was cast on the DeltaDeFi: Hydra Trading Infrastructure Budget request for 1,500,000 ADA on behalf of delegates, with transaction evidence provided, source: x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/2010699440944738368 and adastat.net/transactions/79bab53fe9f84e61127371e7ba725958554ae45e6bc3cd399d24fd87afeca3da. According to @ItsDave_ADA, the stated rationale for the NO vote is support for Hydra development but opposition to using the Cardano Treasury to subsidize operational costs of an individual commercial DEX, recommending Project Catalyst or private venture capital instead and reserving treasury funding for neutral, protocol-level public goods, source: x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/2010699440944738368.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, he cast a NO vote with 37.71 million ADA on the Cardano governance action Net Change Limit (Epoch 613 to Epoch 713), stating the proposed 350M ADA cap is excessive (source: X post https://x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/2010699440944738368; transaction reference https://adastat.net/transactions/79bab53fe9f84e61127371e7ba725958554ae45e6bc3cd399d24fd87afeca3da). He advocates a reduced Net Change Limit of 200–250M ADA to enforce strict fiscal discipline based on conservative inflow projections and to prioritize growing the treasury after recent heavy infrastructure spending (source: X post https://x.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/2010699440944738368). He also voted NO on the DeltaDeFi: Hydra Trading Infrastructure Budget request for 1.5M ADA, supporting Hydra development but opposing treasury subsidies for operational costs of individual commercial DEXs (source: X post https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/2010700249094877211). He recommends projects like DeltaDeFi seek funding via Project Catalyst or private venture capital and reserves treasury spending for neutral, protocol-level public goods (source: X post https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/2010700249094877211).

According to @ItsDave_ADA, he cast a NO vote with 37.71 million ADA on the Cardano governance action titled "DeltaDeFi: Hydra Trading Infrastructure Budget (1,500,000 ADA)" on January 12, 2026, acting on behalf of his delegates. Source: https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/2010699440944738368 He stated he supports Hydra development but opposes using the Cardano Treasury to subsidize operational costs of an individual commercial DEX by 1.5 million ADA. Source: https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/2010699440944738368 He added that such projects should seek funding via Project Catalyst or private venture capital and that treasury funds should be reserved for neutral, protocol-level public goods rather than picking winners in the competitive DEX market. Source: https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/2010699440944738368 He linked a transaction reference for the vote to ADAstat. Source: https://adastat.net/transactions/79bab53fe9f84e61127371e7ba725958554ae45e6bc3cd399d24fd87afeca3da

According to @ItsDave_ADA, a personal demo on Cardano’s Hydra reached 149k TPS and heavily stressed local hardware, with the author asserting Hydra remained fast under load. Source: Dave (@ItsDave_ADA), X post dated Dec 8, 2025. According to @ItsDave_ADA, optimization work reshaped approaches to code, throughput, and UTxO design, while security limitations were observed as use-case specific rather than universal constraints. Source: Dave (@ItsDave_ADA), X post dated Dec 8, 2025. According to @ItsDave_ADA, the UI is already built, with deeper testing, better visualization, animated asset-movement, and L1 settlement testing planned, and he notes uncertainty about integrating L1 settlement with this throughput demo and provides no mainnet benchmark or independent validation in the post. Source: Dave (@ItsDave_ADA), X post dated Dec 8, 2025. According to Input Output Global, Hydra is an isomorphic state-channel solution designed for low-latency, high-throughput Cardano applications such as payments, DeFi, and gaming, making high-TPS demos relevant to these use cases. Source: Input Output Global Hydra Head protocol documentation. According to @ItsDave_ADA, this remains an ongoing demo with more headroom identified, making the next trading-relevant checkpoints the results of deeper testing and any published findings from planned L1 settlement integration. Source: Dave (@ItsDave_ADA), X post dated Dec 8, 2025.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, a peak burst of 111,000 transactions per second was achieved using Cardano Hydra by moving ADA in a ring formation; source: https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1997459823810822637. The post specifies this as a burst test and provides no independent verification, sustained throughput metrics, or methodology details, which is material for traders assessing performance claims; source: https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1997459823810822637.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, he will try fanout from Hydra to Cardano L1 and says he has not seen a successful demo of this yet himself. Source: https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1997082035513602335 For ADA traders, the statement highlights that, to the author's knowledge as of Dec 5, 2025, a successful Hydra L1 fanout demo has not been seen by him. Source: https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1997082035513602335 The author did not provide a timeline or technical details in the post. Source: https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1997082035513602335

According to @ItsDave_ADA, a real UTxO-based high-frequency trading engine running inside a single open Cardano Hydra head achieved a burst throughput of 875 transactions per second on his laptop (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X). According to @ItsDave_ADA, the throughput figure was reached as a burst inside one Hydra head, highlighting performance for an HFT-style workload rather than base-layer metrics (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X). According to @ItsDave_ADA, the post did not include hardware specifications, sustained TPS, latency measurements, or reproducibility details, limiting independent verification from the tweet alone (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X).

According to @ItsDave_ADA, the Cardano Hydra demo is "looking good," marking a positive development status update shared on X on Dec 2, 2025, source: Dave (@ItsDave_ADA) on X, Dec 2, 2025. Hydra is Cardano’s layer-2 scaling protocol that uses Hydra Heads to enable high-throughput, low-latency off-chain transactions with on-chain settlement, source: Input Output Global Hydra Head documentation. For trading workflows around ADA, monitor official Hydra release notes, testnet announcements, and repository activity to validate concrete progress signals, source: Input Output Global blog and the Hydra GitHub repository.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, Cardano Hydra looks good, indicating a positive sentiment signal toward the network’s scaling effort (source: @ItsDave_ADA, X post dated Nov 25, 2025). Hydra is described by Input Output Global as an off-chain scaling suite for Cardano that uses Hydra Heads to improve throughput and latency while anchoring security to the base chain (source: Input Output Global, Hydra documentation). The post does not include new release dates, benchmarks, or roadmap milestones, so this can be read as a sentiment update rather than a confirmed technical rollout (source: @ItsDave_ADA). For ADA traders, this highlights community optimism around scaling progress without accompanying quantitative metrics to assess near-term fundamentals (source: @ItsDave_ADA; source: Input Output Global).

According to @ItsDave_ADA, the Hydra devnet reached 2,800 transactions per second on a single laptop and a larger-scale public showcase is planned soon. Source: @ItsDave_ADA on X (Nov 22, 2025). For traders, the announced showcase is a potential near-term catalyst to monitor ADA liquidity and volatility as attention shifts to scaling progress; confirmation details, independent benchmarking, and any path toward production readiness should be watched before trading decisions. Source: @ItsDave_ADA on X (Nov 22, 2025).

According to @ItsDave_ADA, the community is spotlighting open-source Cardano developer teams that can influence ADA trading by shaping throughput, fees, and dApp growth. Source: twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1957165298047447231 Hydra Head by Input Output Global delivers isomorphic state channels for near-instant, low-cost transactions anchored to L1, providing scalable settlement pathways that can boost on-chain activity without congesting the base layer. Source: hydra.family and github.com/input-output-hk/hydra Mithril introduces stake-based multi-signature snapshots that accelerate full-node bootstrapping and improve network reliability, lowering operational friction for participants and infrastructure providers. Source: mithril.network and github.com/input-output-hk/mithril Aiken is an open-source smart contract language and compiler targeting Plutus that enhances developer productivity and auditability, potentially speeding time-to-market for DeFi primitives on Cardano. Source: aiken-lang.org and github.com/aiken-lang/aiken TxPipe’s Ogmios and Pallas provide lightweight chain-sync and structured APIs for building fast indexers and services, reducing latency for wallets and DApps and supporting higher transaction volumes. Source: ogmios.dev and github.com/txpipe MeshJS and Lucid SDKs streamline wallet interactions, CIP-30 integration, and transaction building for DeFi and NFT apps, lowering integration complexity for new protocols. Source: meshjs.dev and github.com/MeshJS/mesh; lucid.spacebudz.io and github.com/spacebudz/lucid For traders, tracking release cadence and commit activity across these repos is a practical leading indicator for upcoming on-chain volume catalysts, aligning with research that developer activity is correlated with protocol resilience and value capture. Source: Electric Capital Developer Report 2023 at electriccapital.com/developer-report