The October 31, 2025, development report highlights the Hydra v1 announcement, marking the protocol as production-ready. The ledger team also finalized CIP-118 (nested transactions/Babel fees). IOG published a deep dive on Ouroboros Phalanx, a mechanism to deter grinding attacks, and the consensus team showcased a Leios prototype. Intersect committee elections are underway, and Project Catalyst Fund15 is set to launch on November 5.

The October 24, 2025, development report highlights ecosystem growth to 2,014 projects and the Cardano Foundation's plan to apply for .ada and .cardano gTLDs. Wanchain launched a bridge to Sonic. The Mithril team advanced incremental snapshots and configuration decentralization. Intersect committee election voting is set to begin October 27, and Project Catalyst announced Fund15 will launch on November 5.

The October 17, 2025, development report highlights the Hydra team's release of version 1.0.0. The consensus team advanced the Leios CIP, while the performance team benchmarked node v.10.6 and the LSM-tree backend. The Plutus team finalized the implementation of CIP-0153, introducing the Value built-in type. In the ecosystem, Project Catalyst Fund14 voting concluded, and the Cardano Foundation launched its Summit 2025 PR campaign.

The October 10, 2025, development report highlights steady ecosystem growth, with transaction volume reaching 114.56 million and an increase in active DReps. The IOG team concluded its Asia tour in Tokyo. Yoroi wallet launched v6.0, integrating DexHunter and Minswap. Additionally, Midnight Network partnered with CSWAP to develop privacy-first DeFi solutions, and the Hydra-node v1.0.0 pre-release is now available on GitHub.

The September 12, 2025, development report highlights the ledger team's progress on CIP-112 and features for the next intra-era hard fork. The first fully community-elected constitutional committee is now in place. In scaling, the Mithril team updated the DMQ protocol CIP. Ecosystem news includes the release of Yoroi Extension v.5.13.0 and new partnerships for Sundial Protocol and Midnight Network.

The September 26, 2025, development report highlights the consensus team's work on the KES agent audit and refactoring the hard fork combinator to be Peras-aware. The Plutus team is preparing for the intra-era hard fork by enabling sums-of-products and built-in functions across all Plutus versions. In the ecosystem, IOG announced a partnership with zkFold to build a trustless ETH-Cardano bridge, while Minswap's "Wen" token generator is now live.

The September 19, 2025, development report highlights the consensus team drafting an architectural design for Leios (CIP-0164). The Plutus team progressed on implementing the Value built-in type (CIP-0153) and merged multi-scalar multiplication primitives for the next hard fork. In scaling, the Mithril team created a new pre-release, supported Cardano node v.10.5.1, and completed a SNARK proving circuit prototype. IOG also kicked off its 2025 Asia tour.

The September 12, 2025, development report highlights the ledger team's progress on CIP-112 and features for the next intra-era hard fork. A major Voltaire milestone was reached with the first fully community-elected constitutional committee now in place. In scaling, the Mithril team updated the DMQ protocol CIP. Ecosystem news includes the release of Yoroi Extension v.5.13.0 and new partnerships for Sundial Protocol and Midnight Network.

The September 05, 2025, development report highlights the consensus team's work on the first public draft of the Leios CIP, LSM-tree support, and KES agent integration. The Plutus team improved the evaluator and deserializer and added support for built-in units and pairs. In ecosystem news, MLabs launched feeswap.io, the Cardano Foundation rebuilt the Developer Portal, and World Mobile Chain's $WMTX token began trading on KrakenFX.

The August 29, 2025, development report highlights the ledger team's work on enforcing stake pool VRF key uniqueness and integrating Plutus V4 into the Dijkstra era. Smart contract development progressed with Plutus Core adding support for built-in lists. Ecosystem news includes Midnight's partnership with Copper, the launch of the Cardano Governance Education Working Group, and the release of the Halo2-Plutus verifier for zero-knowledge proofs.