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Benchmarks of Cardano node v.11.1.0 showed reduced CPU usage alongside a memory increase that is being addressed in the v.11.1.1 patch release. The Hydra team moved its specification to Typst, formalized it in Agda, and published native Linux ARM64 node images alongside AMD64, with faster Blockfrost query caching. The research team held its second Cardano Vision 26 workshop, covering data availability requirements and specifications.

Intersect opened applications for two elected Board seats, with voting from September 14 to 25 and results expected on September 28. The alpha Constitutional Amendment Portal gives ada holders a more accessible way to propose and discuss amendments to the Constitution. Daedalus 11.3.0 adds a DRep directory, and updated stake pool operator scripts support the upcoming LedgerApp v8 and Cardano-Signer v1.35.

Cardano is now the public proof layer in Blockforce's traceability platform, which has anchored more than 500,000 supply chain records for Brazil's largest fashion groups. Records stay on a permissioned network and only their cryptographic proof reaches Cardano, so auditors can confirm a record is genuine without seeing the underlying data. Engineering work cut the cost per record by 92 percent, and contracts cover 6.5 million records through 2030.

Lace added support for the Keystone hardware wallet in both the browser extension and the mobile app, bringing the wallet to four supported devices. The Plutus team published release 1.68.0.0 with Plutus V4 ledger API types, cardano-init reached its first tagged releases, and Hydra moved persisted event payloads to CBOR, shrinking a three-node benchmark database by more than half. Plinth also gained a one-command install script.

Java developers can build on Cardano with the tools they already use, according to a Cardano Foundation walkthrough of the open-source BloxBean stack. Adding a dependency, writing a test and calling a REST endpoint cover most of what is needed, while the extended UTXO model and validator scripts can be learned gradually alongside. The post also previews three experimental Java projects now in development.

The Cardano Foundation, CEMS and SGH Warsaw School of Economics studied how well public blockchains fit sustainability compliance reporting. The three-month student project produced an analysis of global sustainability regulation, a scorecard for assessing networks against reporting requirements, and a scoped pilot business case showing measurable return on investment. The team also mapped how much regulatory pressure companies face in each region.

The Leios team completed the Earth phase of MusashiNet, the public testnet, after 41 days that produced over 127,000 blocks and grew participation from three pools to 63. Under synthetic load the network peaked at roughly six times the throughput Praos reaches on mainnet today. The ledger team extended pool distribution with BLS keys, and the Water phase is now open on a fresh chain.

The Cardano Foundation is bringing its largest presence yet to TOKEN2049 in Singapore, with applications open for 20 ecosystem projects to join its booth. Two on-chain votes needed action from DReps and stake pool operators before September 1, among them the 2026 Constitutional Committee update. A new Project Catalyst pilot awards grants of up to 200,000 ada based on real-world usage.

The consensus team released prototype-2026w32, with the node now announcing endorser blocks to peers as a first step toward announcement-based diffusion. Ouroboros-consensus 4.0.0.0 and 4.1 enabled the node to hard fork into the Dijkstra era. The Plutus team opened CIP-0194, CIP-0195 and a new problem statement for community review, and Hydra began rejecting deposits too large to ever be claimed.

The Constitutional Amendment Portal is live for alpha testing at cap.intersectmbo.org, giving the community a structured home for proposing and refining changes to the Cardano Constitution. Users can highlight a precise passage of the Constitution, submit a Constitutional Amendment Proposal or raise an issue, and follow each proposal through its lifecycle. Wallet connection uses a stake address as identity, with no account, email, or password required.