Cardano’s management is floating an unconventional thought: flip a part of the venture’s struggle chest right into a revenue-generating portfolio that holds Bitcoin and USD-pegged tokens.
The blueprint, outlined by founder Charles Hoskinson in a current livestream, requires swapping roughly $100 million in ADA—about onetenth of the community’s treasury—into liquid belongings that could possibly be lent, staked, or deployed as market-making capital inside Cardano’s DeFi protocols.
Supporters say the shift would assault Cardano’s largest weak spot: scarce stablecoin liquidity. In the meanwhile, solely about $33 million in dollar-denominated tokens circulates on the chain, versus a complete DeFi worth locked close to $330 million. Competing networks publish far richer ratios—Ethereum’s stablecoin provide exceeds its TVL, Solana’s hovers above one hundred pc—making them extra enticing to yield-hunters. A sovereign-style fund, incomes an estimated five-to-ten p.c yearly, might recycle income again into ADA buy-backs or new grants, seeding a self-reinforcing progress loop.
Skeptics fear that unloading 100 million ADA would possibly crush the token’s value. Hoskinson counters that ADA’s day by day volumes routinely prime lots of of tens of millions of {dollars}; executed slowly via OTC desks or time-weighted algorithms, the commerce might end in a couple of months with minimal slippage—“effectively beneath half a p.c,” he claims.
A draft governance framework—envisioning a board of finance and Web3 specialists plus on-chain auditing—circulates amongst core groups and can doubtless floor on the Uncommon Evo convention later this 12 months. If the group indicators off, Cardano’s treasury might evolve from a static pile of ADA into an actively managed fund designed to bankroll the chain’s subsequent wave of decentralized apps.