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.

The January 24, 2025, development report highlights consensus team progress on security, documentation, and Peras workstream improvements. The UTXO-HD branch achieved successful local chain synchronization. The performance team benchmarked node v.10.1.4 and introduced a tracing Discord channel. Plutus added the Fix construct and CLI tool guides. Hydra completed custom ledger experiments and restored hydra-explorer. Mithril advanced incremental database certification. The Leios team benchmarked efficient VRF cryptography.

The January 17, 2025, development report focuses on final preparations for the Plomin hard fork, including bug fixes and code simplifications. Stake pool operators are urged to upgrade to node v.10.1.4. Lace v.1.18.2 improved crash recovery and fixed CIP-95 bugs. Mithril certified stake distribution on the mainnet and upgraded to node v.10.1.4. The Ouroboros Leios project progressed simulations to enhance network throughput. Voting for the Plomin hard fork continues.

The January 10, 2025, development report highlights the release of Cardano node v.10.1.4, preparing for the Plomin hard fork with enhanced mempool safeguards. The consensus team improved time management and block-fetch synchronization. Plutus Core is finalizing the data-backed ScriptContext API for better script performance. Hydra advanced incremental commits and multi-version support for its explorer, while Mithril released distribution 2450.0, supporting Cardano node v.10.1.3.