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 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 network has reached 1,985 projects and 106.5 million transactions. The consensus team achieved a 9% CPU reduction benchmarking the UTXO-HD in-memory backend. Lace 1.20.0 launched with a new Governance tab, while Plutus Tx was rebranded to Plinth to improve smart contract development. Additionally, a Hydra explorer was released for enhanced network monitoring.

The ecosystem has reached 1,985 projects, 10.68 million native tokens, and 106.19 million transactions. The ledger team optimized Plutus script computations, reducing memory usage for better performance. Mithril activated the 'Pythagoras' era at epoch 539, advancing incremental database certification. Leios focused on cryptography benchmarking, while the interim council voted to officially adopt the Cardano Constitution.

The network has benchmarked node v.10.2, alongside UTXO-HD and Genesis performance updates. The consensus team removed EBBs and fixed block replay issues, while the Plutus team rebranded Plutus Tx to Plinth and refined the script context API. Hydra v.0.20.0 improved memory usage, and Mithril prepared for the Pythagoras era at epoch 539. Additionally, the Leios team enhanced efficiency by reducing certificate sizes.

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.

Cardano node v.10.1.4 has been released, featuring mempool safeguards in preparation for the Plomin hard fork. The consensus team improved time management and block-fetch synchronization, while Plutus Core is finalizing the data-backed ScriptContext API to enhance script performance. Hydra has advanced incremental commits and explorer support, and Mithril released distribution 2450.0 to support node v.10.1.3.

The December 13, 2024, development report concludes the year, with updates resuming January 10, 2025. The networking team, in collaboration with the Cardano Foundation, noted 98.4% of transactions are included within two blocks, showing minimal congestion. The consensus team advanced UTXO-HD and reviewed low participation handling. Daedalus v.7.0.2 launched, enabling users to delegate voting power to DReps or select automatic voting options, enhancing governance participation.