Cardano News

The October 13, 2025, Cardano Community Digest highlights the ongoing Asia Tour, with stops in Ho Chi Minh City and Tokyo, and the Node Diversity Workshop #2 in Toulouse. It also announces the release of Hydra node v1.0.0 and calls for participation in the State of the Cardano Developer Ecosystem survey, alongside other ecosystem updates and a reminder for the Intersect committee elections.

The October 10, 2025, development report highlights steady ecosystem growth, with transaction volume reaching 114.56 million and an increase in active DReps. The IOG team concluded its Asia tour in Tokyo. Yoroi wallet launched v6.0, integrating DexHunter and Minswap. Additionally, Midnight Network partnered with CSWAP to develop privacy-first DeFi solutions, and the Hydra-node v1.0.0 pre-release is now available on GitHub.

The September 12, 2025, development report highlights the ledger team's progress on CIP-112 and features for the next intra-era hard fork. The first fully community-elected constitutional committee is 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.

On October 1, 2025, Intersect announced the results of its 2025 board elections, with Adam Rusch and Jack Briggs being elected as new members. This election is a significant milestone for Cardano's governance, as it marks the first time a majority of the Intersect board has been directly elected by its members. The result, determined by a 26% voter turnout, reinforces the ecosystem's commitment to decentralized, community-led decision-making.

The September 29, 2025, Cardano Community Digest celebrates Cardano's 8th birthday, reflecting on its journey from Byron to Voltaire. It also announces that voting for the Cardano Summit 2025 Awards is now open. The digest features a developer spotlight on Iagon and recaps recent Roundtable Talks. Updates from the Cardano Foundation and Project Catalyst are also included, with the announcement that Fund14 voting is now open.

The September 26, 2025, development report highlights the consensus team's work on the KES agent audit and refactoring the hard fork combinator to be Peras-aware. The Plutus team is preparing for the intra-era hard fork by enabling sums-of-products and built-in functions across all Plutus versions. In the ecosystem, IOG announced a partnership with zkFold to build a trustless ETH-Cardano bridge, while Minswap's "Wen" token generator is now live.

On September 23, 2025, 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.

The September 19, 2025, development report highlights 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 from September 17, 2025, 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.

The September 15, 2025, Cardano Community Digest highlights reflections from SIDAN Labs on the recent Cardano-Bitcoin DeFi event. It also announces Masumi side events for the upcoming Cardano Summit and that hackathon registrations are now open. The digest features IntersectMBO's Cardano Vision 2030 initiative and the launch of a new, centralized Cardano Community Events Calendar, aimed at improving coordination across the ecosystem.