Cardano News

Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard unveiled an updated roadmap focused on accelerating global adoption. Key initiatives include injecting eight figures in ada liquidity into DeFi, expanding the Web3 adoption team, and committing up to 2 million ada to the Cardano Venture Hub in 2026. The plan also prioritizes Real-World Asset tokenization, increases the 2026 marketing budget by 12%, and boosts governance decentralization by delegating an additional 220M ada to select DReps.

A Roundtable Talk, features a discussion on the Fund 14 Representative Pilot and the evolution of Project Catalyst. Participants discussed shifting from popularity-based voting toward systematic, expertise-driven decision-making. The conversation also compared evaluation frameworks to help DReps prioritize quality and fairness, ensuring a more informed and transparent governance process for Fund 15 and beyond.

A Roundtable Talk, features a discussion from Rare Evo Las Vegas on the values and spirit of Cardano Culture. Participants discussed the evolution of community voices, the impact of grassroots funding, and the importance of IRL presence. The conversation also addressed intentional culture shaping and inclusivity to ensure a resilient and welcoming environment for the global ecosystem.

The consensus team drafting an architectural design for Leios (CIP-0164). The Plutus team progressed on implementing the Value built-in type (CIP-0153) and merged multi-scalar multiplication primitives for the next hard fork. In scaling, the Mithril team created a new pre-release, supported Cardano node v.10.5.1, and completed a SNARK proving circuit prototype. IOG also kicked off its 2025 Asia tour.

In a "Let's Talk Cardano" episode summary the Cardano Foundation's Veridian digital identity platform was explored. Authored by Laura Mattiucci, the post details how Veridian, built on Cardano and the KERI protocol, tackles digital trust issues. It features quantum-resistant key management and decouples identity from public keys for interoperability, using the blockchain as a root of trust for its global security monitoring service.

SIDAN Labs shared reflections on the Cardano-Bitcoin DeFi event, while Masumi side events and hackathon registrations for the upcoming Cardano Summit were announced. Intersect introduced the Cardano Vision 2030 initiative, and a new centralized Community Events Calendar has launched to improve coordination.

The ledger team's progress on CIP-112 and features for the next intra-era hard fork. A major Voltaire milestone was reached with the first fully community-elected constitutional committee now in place. In scaling, the Mithril team updated the DMQ protocol CIP. Ecosystem news includes the release of Yoroi Extension v.5.13.0 and new partnerships for Sundial Protocol and Midnight Network.

The first community-led Constitutional Committee election has concluded, with seven members elected via an on-chain vote by DReps and SPOs. The process utilized a one-lovelace-one-vote system to select representatives responsible for upholding the Cardano Constitution for the upcoming term. This milestone establishes a decentralized governance framework and marks the full transition of constitutional power to the community.

The development report highlights the consensus team's work on the first public draft of the Leios CIP, LSM-tree support, and KES agent integration. The Plutus team improved the evaluator and deserializer and added support for built-in units and pairs. In ecosystem news, MLabs launched feeswap.io, the Cardano Foundation rebuilt the Developer Portal, and World Mobile Chain's $WMTX token began trading on KrakenFX.

A video recap showcases the events in Las Vegas, highlighting community collaboration and ecosystem progress. An analysis explores the benefits of liquid staking, focusing on how it balances network security with user autonomy. Leios is detailed as a significant scalability milestone for the network's future. Additionally, an on-chain version of a popular game was demonstrated using Hydra to illustrate high-speed transaction capabilities.