The August 15, 2025, development report highlights the ledger team beginning work on CIP-112, known as 'Required Guards,' and refactoring the stake pool state. The performance team released benchmarks for Cardano node v.10.5. On the scaling front, the Leios team advanced its CIP documentation and demonstrated Linear Leios performance under various Plutus workloads, resolving key simulation discrepancies.

The August 08, 2025, development report highlights the full mainnet release of Cardano node v.10.5.1. The consensus team advanced on multiple fronts, including LSM-tree integration and drafting mini-protocols for Linear Leios. The Plutus team is expanding case analysis support and preparing all built-in functions for the next hard fork. Ecosystem news includes partnerships for Midnight Network with Blockchain.com and Wanchain's bridge to the SUI Network.

The August 01, 2025, development report highlights a major refactoring of the ledger codebase's reward account state, removing pointers in the Conway era to improve performance and pave the way for future features like the Leios protocol. This update also introduced a feature for reporting the pre-image of script integrity hashes on validation failures. Ecosystem news includes the launch of the Cardano Foundation's Tool Compass and the release of Midnight's tokenomics whitepaper.

The July 25, 2025, development report highlights the release of node v.10.5.1, featuring networking enhancements and tracing metric fixes. The consensus team is integrating the Dijkstra era and advancing the Haskell Leios simulator. Lace wallet v.1.25 introduced a partnership with NFTPrintLab and support for Bitcoin transaction metadata. The Plutus Core team expanded functionality by introducing case analysis on lists and refined the Plutus Core specification.

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.