Cardano News

The March 4, 2025, Cardano Community Digest highlights the inclusion of ada in the newly announced U.S. Crypto Strategic Reserve alongside BTC, ETH, XRP, and SOL, reinforcing Cardano’s growing recognition. The latest SPO Table Talk explores the redesigned staking rewards calculator, featuring real-time data, Monte Carlo simulations, and governance modeling. IOG released a documentary on the Cardano Blockchain Constitution, capturing key moments from the December 2024 Constitutional Convention and its on-chain ratification in February 2025. These developments underscore Cardano’s increasing role in global finance, governance, and blockchain innovation.

The February 28, 2025, 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 February 21, 2025, development report highlights Cardano's stable growth, with 1,985 projects building on the platform and over 106.5 million transactions processed. The consensus team benchmarked the in-memory backend for UTXO-HD, achieving a 9% reduction in CPU usage. The Lace team released version 1.20.0, introducing wallet renaming and a new 'Governance' tab. The Plutus team rebranded Plutus Tx to Plinth, enhancing the compiler for improved smart contract development. Additionally, the Hydra team launched the Hydra explorer for better network monitoring.

The Cardano Foundation released the "Cardano Economic Parameters" whitepaper by Professor Massimo Morini, analyzing how parameters like k (desired pool count) and a₀ (pledge influence) shape stake pool rewards. It explores the impact of pool size, pledge, and ecosystem reserves while clarifying reserve distribution between rewards and the treasury. The paper provides insights for stake pool operators and governance participants to support informed decision-making on Cardano’s long-term sustainability.

The February 17, 2025, Cardano Community Digest announces the upcoming "Cardano Buidler Fest #2" in Da Nang, Vietnam, on April 24–25, 2025. Andrew Westberg discusses a proposal to reduce the treasury tax rate from 20% to 10%, analyzing its potential effects on fund allocation and governance. Intersect MBO has released draft budget proposals for community feedback, covering topics like the Cardano Research Budget and Growth and Marketing strategies. Community members are encouraged to participate in discussions and provide input on these initiatives.

The February 14, 2025, development report highlights Cardano's ecosystem growth, with 1,985 projects building on the platform, 10.68 million native tokens issued, and 106.19 million transactions processed. The ledger team improved performance by optimizing Plutus script context computations and reducing memory usage. The Mithril team activated the 'Pythagoras' era on mainnet at epoch 539 and advanced incremental certification of the Cardano database. The Leios team focused on cryptography benchmarking and enhancing network modeling. Additionally, the interim constitutional council unanimously voted to replace the interim constitution with the Cardano constitution.

The Cardano Foundation's recent research paper, "Serial Monopoly on Blockchain with Quasi-Patient Users," co-authored with IOG Research, examines transaction fee mechanisms and their influence on validator incentives. Accepted for presentation at the 29th International Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2025 conference, the study introduces a model bridging impatient and patient users, termed "quasi-patient" users. This approach analyzes how users' varying tolerance for transaction delays impacts fee strategies and blockchain security, offering insights into optimizing transaction fee mechanisms to balance cost efficiency and timely inclusion.

The February 7, 2025, development report covers node v.10.2 benchmarks, UTXO-HD improvements, and Genesis performance updates. The consensus team removed EBBs and fixed block replay issues. The Plutus team introduced "Plinth" (formerly Plutus Tx) and refined the script context API. Hydra v.0.20.0 enhanced memory usage, while Mithril prepared for the Pythagoras era at epoch 539. The Leios team reduced certificate sizes for better efficiency. These updates strengthen Cardano’s performance, smart contracts, and scalability.

The February 4, 2025, Cardano Community Digest features insights into Cardano's decentralization post-Plomin hard fork, a comprehensive guide to stablecoins on Cardano, and updates on Project Catalyst's 2025 roadmap.dditionally, it includes a developer blog interview with FluidTokens' CTO on unlocking liquidity and Bitcoin DeFi on Cardano.he digest also highlights EMURGO's latest developments and the Cardano Ecosystem Guide 2025.ommunity members are encouraged to stay informed and participate in ongoing governance actions.

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.