The July 18, 2025, development report highlights the ledger team's focus on preparing for the Dijkstra era, including integrating it into consensus and reducing technical debt. Scaling work saw the Mithril team complete certificate chain synchronization and the Leios team achieve milestones in protocol analysis, including successful high-throughput experiments. Ecosystem news includes Emurgo launching the Cardano Card, Intersect forming an oversight committee for treasury management, and Blockchain.com's DeFi wallet adding support for ada.

The July 11, 2025, development report highlights continued ecosystem growth, with 2,005 projects now building on Cardano. The consensus team introduced mempool optimizations and added node-to-node CDDL specifications. The Plutus Core team merged support for case analysis on booleans and integers, while the Plinth team introduced a new compiler optimization. Other notable updates include the Cardano Foundation launching Reeve, Intersect partnering with SundaeSwap, and Vespr Wallet open-sourcing its SDKs.

The July 04, 2025, development report highlights continued ecosystem growth, with 2,005 active projects now building on Cardano. The ledger team defined PlutusV4 for the Dijkstra era, fixed a serialization bug, and implemented hard fork triggers. Scaling work saw the Mithril team complete the implementation of the publisher and consumer for the DMQ network, while the Hydra team worked on their 2025-2026 roadmap and Glacier-drop support. Ecosystem news includes MuesliSwap’s launch of MidStarterApp and Flow DeFi confirming USDA stablecoin support.

The June 27, 2025, development report highlights continued ecosystem growth, with the number of projects building on Cardano reaching 2,004. The consensus team enhanced the Leios simulator and improved resource management in UTXO-HD. The Lace team released v.1.24 with multichain and user-centric upgrades. Mithril focused on the DMQ network, while Hydra released v.0.22.0. The community also voted in favor of the Intersect budget info action, paving the way for treasury withdrawals.

The June 20, 2025, development report highlights significant work by the ledger team to modernize the codebase and prepare for an upcoming intra-era hard fork. This included enhancing CDDL specifications, reducing technical debt, and conducting preliminary work on nested transactions. The report also touched upon future node improvements like log-structured merge (LSM) trees and revised stake pool incentives. Governance participation continued to grow, with an increase in the number of registered DReps.

The June 06, 2025, development report highlights the release of Lace wallet v.1.23, which features a more accurate pricing feed for Cardano native tokens in response to community feedback. On the scaling front, the Mithril team delivered support for node v.10.4.1 and UTXO-HD in their tools and advanced the development of the DMQ node. The Leios team finalized an analysis of overcollateralization models and progressed on their Rust-based simulation framework for evaluating transaction duplication and conflict likelihood.

The June 06, 2025, development report highlights the release of Lace wallet v.1.23, which features a more accurate pricing feed for Cardano native tokens in response to community feedback. On the scaling front, the Mithril team delivered support for node v.10.4.1 and UTXO-HD in their tools and advanced the development of the DMQ node. The Leios team finalized an analysis of overcollateralization models and progressed on their Rust-based simulation framework for evaluating transaction duplication and conflict likelihood.

The May 30, 2025, development report highlights the bridging of Bitcoin Ordinals to Cardano via BitVMX and a new partnership between the Cardano Foundation and UNHCR for a crypto-backed ETP supporting refugees. Core technology work focused on performance benchmarks and preparing for the LSM-tree storage layer. The consensus team onboarded to the Leios simulator and patched several CDDL specifications. Smart contract work included enhancing CEK-machine diagnostics and expanding documentation.

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.