Office Hours for Cardano Developers & Entrepreneurs looking to build in Cardano w/ Nicolas Arqueros, Council Member @ CF

Hi Nico. Congrats on your expanded role with Cardano by serving on the board. A few thoughts from me:

  1. While I’m going to stake via Yoroi, my consumer-centric preference will be to stake via exchange. I’m staking Tezos on Coinbase. Making sure Cardano has the necessary APIs for exchange staking seems important for the roadmap.
  2. I think we need more enterprise use-cases like the New Balance product. I posted about a similar product I stumbled upon in South Carolina of all places while on Thanksgiving break. Here’s that forum post.

I think one of the biggest challenges for platforms like Cardano that prevent adoption will be concern about program longevity. A couple of ideas to address this:

  1. Alliances with established technology companies to increase confidence
  2. Even more transparency - BAT/Brave has a really interesting transparency dashboard that shows the growth (or not) in their Advertiser platform - https://brave.com/transparency/

Hope this helps spark conversation and ideas. As a product owner, I think it would be interesting to see not only the already published roadmap, but also the epic user stories that support the roadmap.

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