Cardano News

Learn Cardano's latest episode covers AlphaGrowth's on-chain Cardano PRIME proposal, a 120 million ada DeFi growth request, governance debate around the net change limit, Ethereum research into native UTXOs, RealFi's testnet launch, SecondFi recovery guidance, and EMURGO stepping down from the Pentad while recovery work continues.

The performance and tracing team removed the legacy iohk-monitoring tracing backend (roughly 11,000 lines) and RTView from cardano-tracer, while the ledger team extended StAnnTx memoization to Alonzo and merged the first Leios-related changes. In wallets, Lace released browser extension 2.1, headlined by a wallet security check feature. Under Voltaire, DRep voting is underway in the Constitutional Committee election ahead of the July 23 deadline, and the Research team advanced its Cardano Vision 2026 workstreams with the first zero-knowledge technical workshop.

Applications are open for Draper University's Genesis Hacker House, a four week Silicon Valley residency for early stage teams building on Cardano, while Arouet Holdings is seeking candidates for its voluntary Community Director board role. The State of Cardano Governance 2026 report examines DRep participation, voting power concentration, and SPO engagement, with six recommendations to strengthen governance. RealFi launched its Phase 1 testnet, opening swap, stake, and unstake actions for its stablecoin based credit protocol, and several Cardano Improvement Proposals advanced through active review, including Proof of Existence metadata and DRep voting power concentration.

Learn Cardano examines the SecondFi asset recovery checker and its 16 million ada recovery fund, the precautionary pause on Midnight Glacier Drop redemptions, and how the Open USD stablecoin standard connects to Cardano through Brale. The episode also explores the proposed 500 million ada net change limit and what treasury funding means for DeFi and infrastructure growth.

The Cardano Foundation has partnered with SENAI São Paulo to drive blockchain adoption across Brazilian industry. This collaboration introduces specialized training, educator certification programs, and executive education. It also launches practical, real-world industrial pilots, including Digital Product Passports, after an initial technical immersion successfully onboarded 130 research and education specialists.

The latest ecosystem updates highlight the launch of the Ouroboros Leios testnet (Musashi Dojo), introducing parallel "endorser blocks" to potentially scale network throughput from 4.5 KB/s up to 200 KB/s. Additionally, applications open next week for the $80M Draper Dragon Orion Fund startup cohort and a voluntary Community Director seat on the Arouet Holdings board. Other major highlights include Pyth Network oracles going live on Cardano and the Cardano Foundation's inclusion in Fortune's Crypto Innovators 2026 list.

Developed in collaboration between the Cardano Foundation and BloxBean, the new Yaci Store 3.0.0-beta3 Analytics Module is now live. This open-source tool allows developers and researchers to export the entire Cardano blockchain into lightweight Parquet files for complex data queries directly on a local laptop. By streamlining access to transactions, UTXOs, and governance metrics, it eliminates the need for expensive, resource-heavy node infrastructure.

The Cardano Vision 2026 research roadmap outlines 15 key initiatives across six core technical pillars. Developed by a global academic consortium, the program drives multi-layer scalability (via Leios and Peras), cross-chain zero-knowledge (ZK) tooling, decentralized identity, and verified governance models. Its primary strategic defense is a bottom-up post-quantum cryptography (PQC) framework designed to preemptively swap out core consensus primitives for quantum-secure alternatives.

The Consensus team improved Mithril integration for snapshot exports, while Lace Carbon began internal testing. For scaling, Hydra v2.2.0 launched with upgraded benchmarks, and Mithril finalized recursive SNARK verification. Under Voltaire, the Constitutional Committee election became competitive with five candidates for four seats, with DRep voting starting June 23. The Research team advanced its Cardano Vision 2026 workstreams.

The Pyth Network has launched on Cardano, offering all ecosystem projects one year of free, unlimited access to a Pyth Pro API key. Facilitated by the "Pentad" under the critical integrations budget, this integration provides builders with institutional-grade, real-time market data. Structurally, it utilizes a pull oracle model where off-chain data is requested on-demand and verified cryptographically on-chain, keeping transaction fees minimal for decentralized applications.