Overview
Cardisa Latina is a Spanish-language video channel that explains blockchain to people starting from zero. Its videos cover the basics, from how people earn rewards for helping secure the network to what a major upgrade changes, alongside interviews and reporting filmed at community events. It is led by Colombian engineer Isabella Franco, who produced the grant-funded material with a small team of Colombian collaborators.
All of the material is about Cardano, and it is aimed squarely at Spanish-speaking Latin America. Franco is a Cardano Ambassador, a volunteer community role; the Cardano Foundation's community team published her ambassador interview on the Cardano Forum1. Two of her Spanish-content projects were funded and completed through Project Catalyst, the community grant program where ADA holders vote on which proposals get money23.
Key Features
- Cardano explained for people who have never touched it. Franco's stated goal is to make the highly technical world of blockchain easier to understand, working outward from the parts she did not understand herself1.
- Reporting from where decisions get made. Cardisa Latina carries vlogs filmed at the Cardano Constitution Workshop, at the COP 16 climate summit in Cali, and at the Rare Evo conference, rather than commentary recorded from a desk.
- Interviews with the people running things. Stake pool operators and constitution workshop organizers talk through their own work, so viewers hear how staking and governance actually run from the people doing them.
- Grant-funded and open to reuse. Both funded Catalyst projects behind this material declare their output fully open source and free for anyone to use23.
- Built for Latin America, not translated into it. Franco's proposals frame Spanish-speaking Latin America as a large audience the ecosystem had not focused on, and the material is written for that audience first2.
What to Expect
Cardisa Latina's about tab carries no description and no links, so everything sits in the videos themselves. Titles and narration are entirely in Spanish with no English subtitles, which makes this material for Spanish speakers rather than a translated version of English content.
Expect an archive rather than a running series. It holds explainers, interviews and event vlogs, plus the official close-out videos for both funded Catalyst projects. Both funded projects sit on Franco's Project Catalyst proposer profile alongside two further proposals that were not approved4. Most videos stand alone, so there is no order to follow.
The tone is personal and informal: one person on camera, humor, and the perspective of someone who taught herself the material before explaining it1. Franco publishes the same kind of work on Instagram and TikTok, and points newcomers to Instagram first1. A Spanish-language podcast under the same name sits alongside them, though its newest episode dates to February 2025. For a wider set of beginner-facing video introductions in other languages, the intro videos category collects more of them.
