Explore the stories below for curated news, stories, and inspiration from within the Cardano ecosystem.
A Roundtable Talk, on July 7, 2025, features a discussion from the Cardano Berlin Hackathon on the ecosystem's economic sustainability. Participants discussed why sustainability matters, how transaction fees are earned, and the role of the Net Change Limit. The conversation also covered the challenges of empowering developers and the "skin-in-the-game" approach to using treasury funds to ensure Cardano's long-term viability.
On July 4, 2025, the Cardano Foundation, through Governance Lead Nicolas Cerny, released a set of 14 flowcharts to clarify Cardano's governance actions. These visual guides aim to make the on-chain voting processes more understandable and transparent for the community. By demystifying the procedures for different governance actions, the Foundation hopes to encourage broader and more informed participation. The release underscores the evolving nature of Cardano's governance and the importance of an engaged community in shaping the protocol's future.
The July 04, 2025, development report highlights continued ecosystem growth, with 2,005 active projects now building on Cardano. The ledger team defined PlutusV4 for the Dijkstra era, fixed a serialization bug, and implemented hard fork triggers. Scaling work saw the Mithril team complete the implementation of the publisher and consumer for the DMQ network, while the Hydra team worked on their 2025-2026 roadmap and Glacier-drop support. Ecosystem news includes MuesliSwap’s launch of MidStarterApp and Flow DeFi confirming USDA stablecoin support.
A July 2, 2025, blog post by Joseph Fajen introduces "Project Acropolis," an initiative to make Cardano more developer-friendly. It aims to transform the Cardano node into a modular framework, allowing developers to build directly on the node using familiar tools. This approach seeks to lower the entry barrier for developers, fostering innovation and ecosystem growth while preserving Cardano's high-security standards.
A blog post by Joseph Fajen from July 2, 2025, details "Project Acropolis," an Input | Output initiative to enhance Cardano's developer accessibility. While acknowledging Cardano's robust security, the post notes its steep learning curve has hindered developer ecosystem growth. Acropolis aims to transition the Cardano node from a monolithic to a modular architecture, enabling developers to build applications directly within the node using familiar tools. This evolution is intended to lower entry barriers, foster innovation, and expand the developer community without compromising Cardano's high-security standards.
The June 30, 2025, quarterly development report from the Cardano Foundation highlights significant progress across its tooling ecosystem. Key achievements include numerous improvements to the Cardano Rosetta Java implementation for enhanced performance and security. The report also details the release of Yaci Store v2.0.0, which introduces full ledger-state calculation independent of DB Sync, along with a powerful new plugin framework for greater extensibility.
In this session of the Cardano Developer Office Hours, Giovanni Gargiulo, Senior Software Engineer – DevOps at the Cardano Foundation, presents the new Token Registry API v2 with full CIP-68 support. He demonstrates API endpoints, explains best practices for using the query_priority parameter, and covers support for tokens under both CIP-26 and CIP-68. A live demo shows practical use cases and integration opportunities for developers.
The June 27, 2025, development report highlights continued ecosystem growth, with the number of projects building on Cardano reaching 2,004. The consensus team enhanced the Leios simulator and improved resource management in UTXO-HD. The Lace team released v.1.24 with multichain and user-centric upgrades. Mithril focused on the DMQ network, while Hydra released v.0.22.0. The community also voted in favor of the Intersect budget info action, paving the way for treasury withdrawals.
A Roundtable Talk on June 25, 2025, provided a platform for candidates in the Constitutional Committee election. The session allowed individuals and groups to introduce their background, vision, and motivation for the role. Each candidate answered the same set of questions in a timed format, ensuring a fair and structured showcase for DReps and the community to make informed voting decisions before the June 30 deadline.
The June 24, 2025, Cardano Community Digest recaps the Cardano Berlin Hackathon and the Eureka Crypto Conference, both community-driven events from Berlin Blockchain Week. It highlights Midnight's new Tokenomics & Incentives paper and the release of animated governance flowcharts on cardano.org. Additionally, the digest features the latest from Essential Cardano's Dev Report and an introduction to the Cardano Blueprint, a resource designed to simplify understanding of the protocol.
