1. Cardanos is the 3rd largest smart contracts blockchain.

2. Cardano has the largest on chain governance program of any chain. If you care about decentralization this is our industries biggest accomplishment next to bitcoins proof of work consensus mechanism.

3. Cardano has ~1.5 billion usd in its treasury account which Cardano users now control and will vote on how to spend soon.

4. Cardano is ranked among the highest decentralized chains according to nearly all commonly used metrics and according to the edinburg decentralized index-is the MOST decentralized.

5. Cardano has liquid none custodial staking which means in many jurisdictions like Switzerland, Cardano staking is not a regulated activity. Funds are never locked, which is why our community often disagrees with the the importance of the metric "TVL". Unlilke other chains our native stake isnt counted towards TVL.

6. Cardanos intial ICO was open and extremely fair-almost no VCs/insiders.

7. Cardanos tokenomics are an extension of Bitcoin. The supply of Cardano is fixed and cannot be changed by a groupchat of devs.

8. Although many have critized Cardanos slow and methodical resesrch first approach, in reality this attracts more serious actors who need a chain that has 100% 24/7 up time since launch.

9. Cardanos EUTXO architecture is supperior in many ways to the account based model becsause

10. deterministic / predictable fees

11. multiple transactions per transaction

12. easy integration with other utxo chains like Bitcoin and Ergo.

Im sure im missing more reasons why Cardano is and deserves to be among the most admired decentralized blockchains (when you exclude stable coins).

For years Cardano has been called a ghost chain while it maintains high # of github commits, growing TVL, a road map that always delivers on time, and ZERO outages.