The April 4, 2025, development report highlights Cardano’s continued growth, with 1,991 projects building on the network, 1.329 million delegated wallets, and 10.77 million native tokens issued. Smart contracts reached 130,036 Plutus scripts, and on-chain transactions totaled 108.10 million. Governance engagement expanded to 1,230 DReps, including 927 active. Notable updates include Input Output's participation in Paris Blockchain Week, Turn Protocol's public testnet launch for privacy DeFi, LCX's submission of the first MiCA-compliant white paper for Cardano, and the upcoming release of Cexplorer 2.0 with a new backend and refreshed design.

The March 28, 2025, development report highlights Cardano’s growth with 1.329 million delegated wallets, 10.73 million native tokens, and 131,200 Plutus scripts. On-chain transactions reached 108.35 million. Governance participation includes 1,220 DReps. Notable updates include Lace's release of version 1.21.0, Hydra's advancements in multi-party state channels, and Mithril's work on enhanced aggregator decentralization. The Cardano Foundation continues expanding its Venture Hub, onboarding projects like BlockSmith Labs and GreenChain.

The March 21, 2025, development report highlights Cardano’s growth with 1.328 million delegated wallets, 10.72 million native tokens, and 130,507 Plutus scripts. On-chain transactions reached 107.98 million. Governance participation expanded to 1,215 DReps. Notable updates include new Ouroboros Genesis simulations, Lace's integration with USDM for payments, and Mithril’s progress on aggregator resilience. The Hydra team released version 0.21.0, focusing on improved data handling. Cardano Foundation's Venture Hub welcomed new members, including Yolo Finance and Metaverse Labs.

The March 14, 2025, development report highlights 1.327 million delegated wallets, 10.71 million native tokens, and 129,108 Plutus scripts. On-chain transactions reached 107.52 million, with governance engagement growing to 1,205 DReps. The Hoskinson Family Office invested $1.5 million in W3i Software, Cardano won Blockchain Project of the Year at Crypto Expo EU, and Sebastien Guillemot introduced Starstream, a zkVM for UTXO smart contracts. Lace integrated with Wanchain Bridge, and Mithril advanced aggregator prototypes. The performance team enhanced benchmarking, while the ledger team focused on serialization improvements.

The March 7, 2025, development report highlights 1,988 projects on Cardano, 1.326 million delegated wallets, and 10.71 million native tokens. Smart contracts grew to 127,578 Plutus scripts, with 107.21 million on-chain transactions. Governance expanded to 1,185 DReps, including 905 active. Updates include Begin wallet’s DRep delegation, USDM’s beta launch, Emurgo’s DRep registration, Intersect’s roadmap proposal, the Cardano Foundation running nodes for Oraclecharli3 and Orcfax, and a five-week builder residency in Silicon Valley with Draper University.

The February 28, 2025, development report highlights Cardano’s growth, with 1,987 projects building on the network, 1.324 million delegated wallets, and 10.70 million native tokens issued. Smart contracts expanded to 127,114 Plutus scripts, and on-chain transactions grew to 108.80 million. Governance engagement remains strong with 1,147 DReps. Iagon and Andamio Platform joined the Cardano Foundation’s Venture Hub, Carlos Souza introduced ‘Xander,’ an Elixir library for node connections, and Butane Synthetics is launching Cardano’s first distributed, fault-resistant oracle.

The February 21, 2025, development report highlights Cardano's stable growth, with 1,985 projects building on the platform and over 106.5 million transactions processed. The consensus team benchmarked the in-memory backend for UTXO-HD, achieving a 9% reduction in CPU usage. The Lace team released version 1.20.0, introducing wallet renaming and a new 'Governance' tab. The Plutus team rebranded Plutus Tx to Plinth, enhancing the compiler for improved smart contract development. Additionally, the Hydra team launched the Hydra explorer for better network monitoring.

The February 14, 2025, development report highlights Cardano's ecosystem growth, with 1,985 projects building on the platform, 10.68 million native tokens issued, and 106.19 million transactions processed. The ledger team improved performance by optimizing Plutus script context computations and reducing memory usage. The Mithril team activated the 'Pythagoras' era on mainnet at epoch 539 and advanced incremental certification of the Cardano database. The Leios team focused on cryptography benchmarking and enhancing network modeling. Additionally, the interim constitutional council unanimously voted to replace the interim constitution with the Cardano constitution.

The February 7, 2025, development report covers node v.10.2 benchmarks, UTXO-HD improvements, and Genesis performance updates. The consensus team removed EBBs and fixed block replay issues. The Plutus team introduced "Plinth" (formerly Plutus Tx) and refined the script context API. Hydra v.0.20.0 enhanced memory usage, while Mithril prepared for the Pythagoras era at epoch 539. The Leios team reduced certificate sizes for better efficiency. These updates strengthen Cardano’s performance, smart contracts, and scalability.

The January 31, 2025, development report highlights the successful implementation of the Plomin hard fork, marking the completion of the Conway ledger era. The ledger team made minor improvements, including removing dependencies and optimizing data structures. The Lace team released version 1.19.0, introducing a DApp explorer and performance enhancements. The Mithril team progressed on incremental certification of the Cardano database and prepared for the upcoming 'Pythagoras' era transition. The Leios team advanced both Haskell and Rust implementations to enhance performance and simulation fidelity.