The October 13, 2025, Cardano Community Digest highlights the ongoing Asia Tour, with stops in Ho Chi Minh City and Tokyo, and the Node Diversity Workshop #2 in Toulouse. It also announces the release of Hydra node v1.0.0 and calls for participation in the State of the Cardano Developer Ecosystem survey, alongside other ecosystem updates and a reminder for the Intersect committee elections.| Cardano Blog
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.| Cardano Blog
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.| Cardano Blog
On October 1, 2025, Intersect announced the results of its 2025 board elections, with Adam Rusch and Jack Briggs being elected as new members. This election is a significant milestone for Cardano's governance, as it marks the first time a majority of the Intersect board has been directly elected by its members. The result, determined by a 26% voter turnout, reinforces the ecosystem's commitment to decentralized, community-led decision-making.| Cardano Blog
The September 29, 2025, Cardano Community Digest celebrates Cardano's 8th birthday, reflecting on its journey from Byron to Voltaire. It also announces that voting for the Cardano Summit 2025 Awards is now open. The digest features a developer spotlight on Iagon and recaps recent Roundtable Talks. Updates from the Cardano Foundation and Project Catalyst are also included, with the announcement that Fund14 voting is now open.| Cardano Blog
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.| Cardano Blog
On September 23, 2025, Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard unveiled an updated roadmap focused on accelerating global adoption. Key initiatives include injecting eight figures in ada liquidity into DeFi, expanding the Web3 adoption team, and committing up to 2 million ada to the Cardano Venture Hub in 2026. The plan also prioritizes Real-World Asset tokenization, increases the 2026 marketing budget by 12%, and boosts governance decentralization by delegating an additional 220M ada to sel...| Cardano Blog
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.| Cardano Blog
In a "Let's Talk Cardano" episode summary from September 17, 2025, the Cardano Foundation's Veridian digital identity platform was explored. Authored by Laura Mattiucci, the post details how Veridian, built on Cardano and the KERI protocol, tackles digital trust issues. It features quantum-resistant key management and decouples identity from public keys for interoperability, using the blockchain as a root of trust for its global security monitoring service.| Cardano Blog
The September 15, 2025, Cardano Community Digest highlights reflections from SIDAN Labs on the recent Cardano-Bitcoin DeFi event. It also announces Masumi side events for the upcoming Cardano Summit and that hackathon registrations are now open. The digest features IntersectMBO's Cardano Vision 2030 initiative and the launch of a new, centralized Cardano Community Events Calendar, aimed at improving coordination across the ecosystem.| Cardano Blog
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.| Cardano Blog
Intersect’s September 7, 2025, blog post recaps the first fully community-led Constitutional Committee election. Seven members were elected via on-chain vote by DReps and SPOs to uphold the Cardano Constitution for the next term. The post details the voting process, which used a one-lovelace-one-vote system, and introduces the newly selected members. This election marks a critical milestone in establishing a robust, decentralized governance framework for the ecosystem.| Cardano Blog
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.| Cardano Blog
The September 01, 2025, Cardano Community Digest features a video recap of Rare Evo in Las Vegas. It also spotlights a Cexplorer.io article on the benefits of Cardano's liquid staking model. Further highlights include an explanation of Leios as a major scalability milestone and a demonstration of an on-chain version of Flappy Bird built using Hydra by Tony Thanh.| Cardano Blog
A blog post by Nicolas Biri on August 25, 2025, details Input | Output's research and development process for turning foundational research into practical advancements. It highlights recent progress on Ouroboros Peras for fast finality, Ouroboros Leios for high throughput, and the Cardinal protocol for a trust-minimized bridge between Bitcoin and Cardano. The post emphasizes a structured, evidence-based methodology to ensure robust, scalable, and relevant innovations.| Cardano Blog
Intersect has deployed the first on-chain vendor smart contract, funding a proposal from TxPipe. This marks a significant milestone for Cardano's treasury management, moving from a theoretical framework to practical implementation. The contract holds the approved ada budget in escrow and automates milestone-based payments. This new system ensures transparent, secure, and accountable management of community-approved funds, representing a major step forward for decentralized governance.| Cardano Blog
On August 25, 2025, a blog post by Kris Bennett introduced the Halo2-Plutus verifier, an open-source tool for bringing zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to Cardano. Spearheaded by Input | Output Research, this project enables on-chain verification of Halo2 proofs within Plinth smart contracts. This innovation is crucial for enhancing privacy and scalability, with its primary application being the Midnight-Cardano zk-bridge, while also supporting broader use cases like confidential transactions.| Cardano Blog
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.| Cardano Blog
The August 22, 2025, development report highlights the Lace wallet v.1.26 release, which includes performance improvements and bug fixes. The consensus team focused on LSM-tree backend integration and continued Leios prototyping. The Mithril team completed the mock DMQ node implementation, and ecosystem growth reached 2,008 projects. Midnight announced a partnership with Block-rewards, and Liqwid Labs launched a new UI.| Cardano Blog
The August 29, 2025, development report highlights the ledger team's work on enforcing the uniqueness of stake pool VRF keys 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.| Cardano Blog