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 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 12, 2025, development report highlights 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 September 05, 2025, 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 blog post by Nicolas Biri on August 25, 2025, details Input | Output's research and development process for turning foundational research into practical advancements. It highlights recent progress on Ouroboros Peras for fast finality, Ouroboros Leios for high throughput, and the Cardinal protocol for a trust-minimized bridge between Bitcoin and Cardano. The post emphasizes a structured, evidence-based methodology to ensure robust, scalable, and relevant innovations.