Cardano Announcements

Join us on Thursday, November 05, 2026 at 16:30 UTC for a dedicated Governance Hour. In this edition of Governance Hour, Nicolas Cerny from the Cardano Foundation and Trivolve Tech founder Rahul Konudula discuss the Police Force Management System (PFMS) proposal. The project requests ₳9.6M from the Cardano Treasury to deploy an open-source system in Telangana, India, that timestamps cryptographic evidence on-chain while keeping sensitive data off-chain. The discussion covers technical impleme…

The next Cardano Research Exchange is coming Monday, 2 November, at 13:00 UTC Manvir Schneider and Juan Ignacio Beccuti Vázquez from the Cardano Foundation will share preliminary research findings on how protocol parameters like k, a₀, and minPoolCost influence SPO and delegator incentives. What can past parameter changes teach us, and what could future adjustments mean for stake pool economics? SPOs and delegators are especially encouraged to join live, share their experience, and provide fe…

Join Us Now Live: Roundtable Talk on CIP-113: What Programmable Tokens Mean for Regulated Assets. on X: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1PKqrNvjogMGb On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOF-gI9r6Pc

Happy Wednesday! There's plenty to catch up on in this week's Community Digest. The 2026 Cardano Developer Ecosystem Survey is now open, Leios is moving towards a staged rollout targeting an initial 3–5x increase in throughput, and the public Dijkstra testnet is ready for SPOs to explore. On the research front, IOG has published several new papers, while 100,000 farms in India are now registered on Cardano through 5am.earth. Intersect also returned 115,172 ada in unspent funds to the Cardano t…

Cardano builders: the 2026 Developer Ecosystem Survey is open. 🛠 Tell us which tools, libraries and docs need work next. Fifteen minutes of your feedback helps shape the infrastructure every Cardano builder uses. Learn more and take the survey: https://cardanofoundation.org/blog/developer-survey-2026

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Join us on Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at 16:30 UTC for a dedicated Governance Hour. This session takes a closer look at the Cardano Strategic Copper Reserve proposal, together with Steven from Toto Finance. The discussion will focus on the proposed ₳22 million Treasury request to acquire physical copper and tokenize it as CuTT, exploring how Cardano can bridge real-world assets with blockchain infrastructure through independently verified reserves, cross-chain tokenization, transparent reportin…

Introducing Cardano Foundation Research Exchange Join us Monday, October 19th from 13:00 UTC for the first episode of the Cardano Foundation Research Exchange, a new series that gives Cardano Foundation research a regular, visible home. Manvir Schneider (Senior Research Scientist) and Juan Beccuti (Researcher in Economics and Governance Blockchain) open the series with an introduction to Cardano Foundation Research: - What it is and why it matters for Cardano - What has been done so far - Wh…

Happy Wednesday! TOKEN2049 Singapore may be behind us, but there's plenty to catch up on. Cardano brought 20+ ecosystem projects to Singapore, and the Origins Hackathon saw builders explore what AI agents could do on Cardano, with the overall grand prize going to a project from the Cardano track. Meanwhile, CIP-0113 is now live on mainnet, the Open Wallet Standard has added native Cardano support, and Minswap and FluidTokens have announced plans to join forces. And that's just scratching the …

Happy Wednesday! This week's Digest covers Cardano celebrating its 9 year anniversary, fresh protocol developments, ecosystem updates, and plenty more. CIP-113 has now been merged into the main CIP repository, following years of development and review. Intersect has also released Cardano Node 11.1.3, fixing an IPv4 address decoding issue, while this week's SPO Call will cover the latest node updates, Leios, Musashi, node diversity, and Mithril. With TOKEN2049 Singapore now just one week away,…

Join us Monday, September 28 at 15:00 UTC for Roundtable Talk: Smart Contract Security - Why One Check Is No Longer Enough The blockchain industry has seen a rise in smart contract exploits. AI models have not only become smarter and more advanced, but they can now analyze code, find vulnerabilities, and generate exploit code. With this vastly changing landscape, how should projects rethink security when AI can find and exploit flaws in minutes? And what does this mean for trust in the ecosyst…

The Catalyst Pilot 2026 cohort is here. 12 projects bringing stablecoins, oracles, programmable tokens, and verifiable identity into real-world sectors. 40% of funding is paid up front, the rest is tied to on-chain adoption on Cardano. Meet the cohort: https://projectcatalyst.io/blog/meet-the-12-teams-selected-for-the-catalyst-pilot-2026

Now Live: Cardano Governance Hour #11 Deep Dive Into the Parameter Change to Reduce minPoolCost to 75 ada https://www.addevent.com/event/vw8d313lymv2

Join us for a new Cardano Governance Hour #11 This session takes a closer look at the Reduce minPoolCost to 75 ada Governance Action proposal, together with Ryan Wiley, also known as Cerkoryn, a member of the SPO Incentives Working Group and author of the proposal. The proposal would reduce Cardano's current minimum pool cost from 170 ada to 75 ada, with no other protocol parameters affected. It argues that declining block rewards have increased the relative burden of the fixed cost on smaller…

What should Cardano’s treasury funding model look like in 2027? Join us on September 21 at 13:00 UTC for a next Roundtable Talk: Treasury Funding Allocation - The Case for Reform Two funding cycles have now given the community real experience with the current model. The question is what we do with that experience. We’ll discuss the NCL, how different funding areas compete for resources, whether budgets should be structured by category, and how sustainability, accountability and delivery shoul…

Happy Wednesday! This week's Digest covers a lot of ground once again. Intersect Board Elections 2026 are now underway, with voting running until September 25 and results expected on September 28. The new Constitutional Amendment Portal is also live, giving ada holders a more accessible way to propose and follow potential changes to the Cardano Constitution, with a review call coming up on September 17. The TOKEN2049 Origins Hackathon deadline has also been extended to September 18, while app…

Now Live: Governance Hour: Deep Dive Into OpenZeppelin Stack Treasury Withdrawal Proposal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4jh8D2LN5U

Join us tomorrow for a new Cardano Governance Hour! This session takes a closer look at the Withdraw 11,787,063 ada for the OpenZeppelin Stack administered by Intersect Treasury Withdrawal proposal, together with Arturo Beccar-Varela, Relationship Manager at OpenZeppelin. The proposal outlines a 12-month program to build reusable development infrastructure for Cardano, including reference implementations, an audited Contracts Library, dedicated security capacity, developer tooling and document…

Announcing the Cardano track at the TOKEN2049 Origins Hackathon. The Origins Hackathon runs 6-8 October in Singapore alongside TOKEN2049, and Cardano has its own track. The challenge: build the agentic economy on Cardano with x402. Key details: ∙ 36 hours of building, with product demos on the main stage ∙ $27,500 in prizes across three winners in the Cardano track ∙ 200 spots, free to enter ∙ Applications close 14 September Full details and registration: https://www.token2049.com/singapore/2…

Happy Wednesday! This week's Digest covers a lot of ground across the ecosystem once again. Intersect Board Elections 2026 are now open, with applications running until September 11 and voting scheduled for September 14-25. A new Constitutional Amendment Portal is also live in alpha, giving ada holders a more accessible way to propose, discuss, and follow potential changes to the Cardano Constitution. For SPOs, updated scripts add support for upcoming LedgerApp v8, HW-CLI 1.20, and Cardano-Sign…