The Cardano Foundation has launched Originate, an open-source traceability solution built on the Cardano blockchain. It enables businesses to verify product authenticity and support certifications, enhancing supply chain transparency and combating counterfeiting. A successful case study in the Georgian wine industry demonstrated its effectiveness in fighting counterfeit products. Originate provides a secure, scalable, and cost-effective way for industries like luxury goods and pharmaceuticals to increase consumer trust. The code is available on GitHub for community contribution.

The Cardano Foundation's blog post "Blockchain for Sustainability" explores how blockchain technology can enhance ecological and humanitarian efforts. It details applications in improving supply chain transparency, such as verifying ethically sourced products like fair-trade coffee. The post also covers promoting circular economy models by tracking product lifecycles and recycled content, exemplified by projects like Plastiks on Cardano. Furthermore, it discusses blockchain's role in the renewable energy sector through peer-to-peer energy trading and supporting microgrids, fostering verifiable and transparent sustainable practices.

The Cardano Foundation published an article explaining the Net Change Limit (NCL), a constitutional parameter within Cardano's governance framework. The NCL defines the maximum amount of ada that can be withdrawn from the treasury over a specific period, typically annually. This mechanism serves as a crucial safeguard for fiscal responsibility and long-term treasury sustainability, balancing ecosystem funding needs with monetary stability. Ratification of the NCL via DRep vote is a required step before budget proposals and treasury withdrawals can proceed.

The article "An Introduction to Proof of Stake Blockchain Systems" from the Cardano Foundation explains how proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanisms offer a more energy-efficient and decentralized alternative to proof-of-work (PoW) systems. In PoS, validators are selected based on the amount of cryptocurrency they hold and are willing to "stake" as collateral, reducing the need for energy-intensive computations. The article discusses various PoS models, including Cardano's Ouroboros protocol, which uses a verifiable random function to ensure fairness and security. It also highlights how different PoS systems balance decentralization, security, and scalability to meet diverse blockchain needs.

Public blockchains offer enterprises transparency, security, and decentralization, reducing reliance on intermediaries while ensuring data integrity. They enhance trust through verifiable transactions, improve efficiency by automating processes with smart contracts, and enable interoperability for seamless data exchange. Unlike private blockchains, public networks provide broader security through decentralized validation. These benefits make public blockchains an ideal choice for businesses seeking innovation, cost efficiency, and greater trust in their operations.

The Cardano Foundation released the "Cardano Economic Parameters" whitepaper by Professor Massimo Morini, analyzing how parameters like k (desired pool count) and a₀ (pledge influence) shape stake pool rewards. It explores the impact of pool size, pledge, and ecosystem reserves while clarifying reserve distribution between rewards and the treasury. The paper provides insights for stake pool operators and governance participants to support informed decision-making on Cardano’s long-term sustainability.

The Cardano Foundation's recent research paper, "Serial Monopoly on Blockchain with Quasi-Patient Users," co-authored with IOG Research, examines transaction fee mechanisms and their influence on validator incentives. Accepted for presentation at the 29th International Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2025 conference, the study introduces a model bridging impatient and patient users, termed "quasi-patient" users. This approach analyzes how users' varying tolerance for transaction delays impacts fee strategies and blockchain security, offering insights into optimizing transaction fee mechanisms to balance cost efficiency and timely inclusion.

Cardano is transitioning into a community-governed blockchain, emphasizing scalability, usability, and interoperability. The roadmap focuses on advanced scaling solutions like Hydra state channels, layer 2 rollups, and the Ouroboros Leios and Peras protocols to support billions of users by 2030. Enhancements in usability aim to improve the developer experience and broaden decentralized application capabilities. Interoperability efforts include integrating partner chains and sidechains to foster a diverse ecosystem. Community involvement is crucial in shaping this future.

Cardano's EUTXO model provides six key benefits over account-based systems: predictable transactions, ensuring no fees for failed transactions; predictable costs, allowing accurate calculation of fees and resources; enhanced concurrency for simultaneous transaction processing; improved security through determinism and reduced attack vectors; flexibility for innovative decentralized applications; and compatibility with zero-knowledge proofs, enabling complex off-chain computations with verifiable on-chain results. These advantages make EUTXO a scalable, secure, and versatile framework for blockchain applications. For more, read the full article.

The Cardano Foundation emphasizes innovation and research in blockchain technology. Their research paper, “MACS: A Multi-Asset Coin Selection Algorithm for UTxO-based Blockchains,” presented at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, highlights the benefits of the MACS algorithm. MACS optimizes transaction fees, UTxO pool size, and user privacy, improving UTxO-based blockchains. Though tested in simulations, it shows promise for enhancing cost, speed, and privacy in blockchain transactions, with further real-world testing needed.