Overview
Powered by Cardano is a video interview channel where project founders explain their own work in their own words. Each conversation is paired with a written page on the channel's companion website, so a project seen in a video can be found again later by name. Interviews follow a fixed question set, which makes different projects easy to compare.
The channel covers the Cardano ecosystem, along with Midnight, a privacy-focused network in the Cardano family, and Apex Fusion. The channel's own website states that it has no affiliation with any foundation, protocol, or commercial organization, and that appearing on the channel is not an endorsement1. Projects do pay to appear, and its Cardano Summit 2025 coverage carried a sponsorship credit for Apex Fusion23.
Key Features
- Founder interviews with a fixed question set. A project's first appearance answers the same three questions every time: what it is, what problem it addresses, and what it does about that problem1.
- A browsable index of every project covered. Each interview becomes an entry on the companion website, grouped by network, so a project can be looked up by name instead of scrubbed for in a video list4.
- Three paid interview packages. Projects buy a one-minute introduction, a ten-minute project update, or a ten-minute event announcement through the channel's booking page; each includes a website listing, the YouTube upload and an X post, and the event package adds Spotify3.
- On-site conference reporting. The team films at ecosystem events and cuts the footage into interview series tied to that conference, including a run of conversations recorded at the Cardano Summit in Berlin2.
- Coverage of community funding proposals. A dedicated series interviews teams putting proposals to Project Catalyst, Cardano's community funding process5.
What to Expect
Videos run short. The standard introduction runs about a minute, while updates and longer conversations run closer to ten, so a viewer can sample a lot of the catalogue in one sitting. The tone is interview-led rather than analytical. A founder describes their own project in their own words, and the channel does not press hard on the claims made, so the videos work better as a starting point for your own reading than as an independent account. Video titles in particular carry the framing of the project being discussed.
Publishing is uneven by design. The channel's own material states that not every indexed project receives a follow-up interview and that scheduling is editorial rather than guaranteed1. Its roadmap page is written the same way, describing where revenue goes rather than committing to dated features6. Anyone using the channel for discovery will get more out of the website's per-network index, which stays browsable whatever the upload pace, than out of watching for new uploads. Everything is free to watch; the projects being interviewed are the paying customers1. The Cardano Foundation's own community digest, published on the official Cardano forum, has featured both the project index and the channel's event interviews7.
