The May 23, 2025, development report highlights the release of Cardano node v.10.4.1, introducing the UTXO-HD feature for flexible UTXO set storage. Ecosystem updates include Flow DeFi releasing its litepaper and integrating with Strike Finance, Trust Wallet enabling in-app DRep delegation, Emurgo announcing it will no longer use genesis ada for governance, and a new Liqwid Labs integration with Begin Wallet. Growth continued in projects, transactions, and smart contract deployment.

The May 16, 2025, development report highlights consensus team fixes for Genesis and progress on Cardano Blueprint CDDL validation. Brave and IO are partnering to integrate Cardano into the Brave wallet. Plutus team advanced formal methods and modular-exponentiation testing. Scaling work included Leios simulations reaching 1,000 TPS and Mithril DMQ node advancements. The Cardano budget proposal was submitted on-chain as an info action, and FluidTokens launched Babel fees.

The May 09, 2025, development report information, largely reflected in Intersect's update, highlights significant progress in governance processes. This includes the upcoming submission of a budget info action with 39 proposals for DRep voting in epoch 557, and the opening of candidate registration for the Constitutional Committee, running until May 31st. The report also noted a strong voter turnout for Q1 committee elections and an increase in DRep statistics. Additionally, community contributions such as the Lucid Evolution off-chain framework and the Midgard Protocol L2 solution were mentioned.

The May 02, 2025, development report highlights the pre-release of Node v.10.4.1 with a production-ready UTXO-HD backend and consensus team advancements in testing models. Lace wallet v.1.22 launched, introducing Firefox browser support and Bitcoin integration (beta). Smart contract updates included strictness analysis for UPLC and PIR. The ecosystem saw continued growth in projects and DRep participation, with TapTools launching the Cardano Builder DAO and Metera mainnet going live.

The April 25, 2025, development report highlights core technology updates, including ledger team work preparing for future eras and the pre-release of node v.10.3.1 focusing on performance improvements and lightweight checkpointing support. Ecosystem growth continued, and key updates include DRep delegation going live on Yoroi Wallet, Kinka minting its first XNK tokens on Cardano, a new EMURGO partnership announcement, and the launch of ChadSwap.

The April 18, 2025, development report highlights core technology advancements, including consensus team progress on Genesis testing and collaboration with the Ouroboros Phalanx team. Networking focused on transaction submission features, while performance benchmarked node v.10.3.1. The Plutus team delivered several improvements to Plinth, enhancing the smart contract compiler and libraries. Work also continued across scaling solutions, wallet development, and governance features.

The April 11, 2025, development report highlights Cardano’s steady growth with 1,990 projects, 1.33 million delegated wallets, and 10.75 million native tokens. Smart contracts reached 130,282 Plutus and 6,217 Aiken scripts, with 108.36 million total transactions. Governance participation expanded to 1,238 DReps. Highlights include Charles Hoskinson’s keynote at Paris Blockchain Week, a node diversity workshop, and Draper University selecting 20 builders for its residency. Zekret Protocol will build on Cardano, and Eternl wallet launched a new version with UI upgrades and multi-sig support.

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.