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6/6 The story is not three billion potential users.
The real test is how many transfers work, what they cost, and whether users can recover their wallet without depending on ChatterPay.
The experience becomes easier. Trust does not disappear; it simply moves elsewhere.
5/6 Convenience also changes the risk.
The account is linked to a phone number, creating exposure to SIM swaps and WhatsApp takeovers. The bot reads transaction instructions and may share message content with AI providers.
chatterpay.net/policy/
1/6 Can you already send or buy cardano:native through #WhatsApp?
ChatterPay says users can now send ADA and stablecoins through messages. But the public evidence does not yet support calling this a fully verified launch. And buying ADA is a different story. 🧵
Next week, in Boston, we'll share how community involvement via credentials is the next frontier, with blockchain systems running behind the hood, seamlessly, as a well-oiled machine that in the forefront makes authentic human interactions possible. @blockchainwk
Sometimes you do not enter a space because you already know enough. You enter because you have the curiosity—and the nerve—to learn in public. Waiting until you feel completely ready is often just a very elegant way of never beginning.
I arrived at Piece of Pie with far more questions than answers, embarrassed myself a few times, learned an absurd amount, and ended up doing things that, twelve weeks earlier, I did not even know how to name. 😂💻
I did not win a prize, but if Piece of Pie had rewarded the people who didn’t know a damn thing when they started, I would have swept every category. 🤣🤣🤣🏆
And perhaps that is a pretty decent victory: entering without knowing, enduring the discomfort, and leaving as someone different from the person who arrived. 💛🚀
#PieceOfPie#Gimbalabs#LearningInPublic#BuildInPublic#LearningByDoing#CILMarketBridge#Web3Journey
I’m very happy to see CIL Market Bridge featured in Cardano News. 🥹📰💛
This project grew from a very simple belief: before choosing a technology, organizations need to understand the problem they are actually trying to solve. Sometimes blockchain is relevant. Sometimes it isn’t—and that answer matters too. 🧭🔍
Thank you for taking the time to explore the idea and share its story. 🚀✨
Who the hell let a journalist into a hackathon?
I joined Piece of Pie with questions, almost no coding skills, and far too many browser tabs. I left with an app, a story, and a place in the Yearbook.
Special thanks to @newman5, our last-minute payment savior. The “touch of soul” was real.
@gimbalabsdecodingthecode3.com/2026/07/27/who…
After this marathon —sorry, hackathon— one question is hard to avoid:
What’s next?
CIL Market Bridge has already moved from an idea to a functional beta.
Now a new stage begins:
• testing with more real users
• improving the flow
• refining the result language
• adjusting the payment path
• documenting what we learn
• continuing to turn business confusion into clearer technology evaluation
The demo is not the end.
It is the first serious starting point.
Built through the @gimbalabs Piece of Pie journey 🍕
#Gimbalabs#PieceOfThePie#CILMarketBridge#Cardano#BuildInPublic#hackathon
🎉 Piece of Pie Celebration
Join us Thursday at 14:00 UTC on Zoom as we celebrate the end of the Piece of Pie Hackathon.
No pitches. No judging.
Just builders sharing what they built, what they learned, and what's next.
Everyone is welcome. Please let us know if you plan to attend.
📍 Zoom link in the Gimbalabs Discord.
#PieceOfPie#Gimbalabs#Cardano
@GameChangerOk@newman5@JuanitaJaramill Thank you so much! 💛 It has been a wild, messy, and deeply rewarding journey. I’m very happy to see this little experiment turn into a real product, a real story, and now a place in the Yearbook. 🚀📖
And yes… I somehow survived the hackathon. 😂
From a question to a functional beta.
Grateful to be part of this Piece of Pie season with Cardano Insight Lab 🍕
Thank you @gimbalabs for the space to build, break things, learn in public, and keep going.
Now: final demo mode. 🚀
Ladies and Gentlemen: The builders - and their Products - in this season of Piece of Pie Hackathon sponsored by @Cardano_CF
Cardano Pie
@devfreeguy -> SkillSwap
@YugudaP -> DevMemory
@DavidTimi_1 -> Mosaic Cardano
@Opa007i -> The Quest
@0xGIDHUB -> Tixano
@Haulink_ -> Haulink
So happy to see Cardano Insight Lab listed among so many builders and projects 🍕
Piece of Pie has been a real learning journey: building, testing, breaking things, fixing them, and turning an idea into a functional beta.
Thank you @gimbalabs for creating a space where process, feedback, and public learning matter too.
Now: final demo mode. 🚀
I’m here to report that one of my best documented impulsive decisions made it into the Piece of Pie yearbook. 🥧
It started as “let’s see what happens.”
It ended as “oh damn, it actually happened.”
Thank you, @gimbalabs, for making the adventure officially documented.
CIL Market Bridge made it into the Piece of Pie yearbook. 🥧
Which means there is now public evidence that I voluntarily got myself into this experiment, survived it, and somehow delivered something functional.
The project started from a very simple question:
what if, before
@gimbalabs Somehow, my “what if I try to build this?” turned into an actual project in the Piece of Pie yearbook. 🥧
Still processing it, honestly.
Thank you, @gimbalabs, for making room for stubborn beginners, weird questions, messy learning, and projects that start from curiosity.
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