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Overview

The Cardano Foundation is an independent Swiss organisation based in Zug that was set up in 2016 to steward the Cardano blockchain. It works on standards, governance, integrations and regulatory engagement, and supports adoption of the network by enterprises and public institutions. The foundation is one of three entities behind Cardano, working alongside the protocol engineering firm Input Output and the commercial arm Emurgo.

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Blog 3 months ago
Weekly Development Report
The performance and tracing team completed Van Rossem hard fork benchmarks, while the ledger team advanced Dijkstra nested transactions and implemented CIP-50 pledge-leverage-based staking rewards. Hydra released 2.3.0 with a significant snapshot-processi
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Blog 3 months ago
The Constitutional Amendment Portal: giving Cardano's Constitution a way to grow
The Constitutional Amendment Portal is live for alpha testing at cap.intersectmbo.org, giving the community a structured home for proposing and refining changes to the Cardano Constitution. Users can highlight a precise passage of the Constitution, submit
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Blog 3 months ago
Community Digest
Cardano and Injective are connected via the IBC protocol on testnet, Cardano's first live on-chain IBC rail, enabling native transfers without centralized bridges. The Constitutional Committee election concluded with audited results, confirming Philip DiS
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Blog 3 months ago
Lowering minPoolCost and completing smart contract capacity increases
The Intersect Parameter Committee submitted a parameter update governance action combining a minPoolCost reduction from 170 to 75 ada with the second part of a 25% increase to Plutus memory limits. Ratification requires support from both DReps and stake p
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Blog 4 months ago
Weekly Development Report
The consensus team released prototype-2026w29, enabling endorser block certification inside the forging loop to raise throughput, and extended the LeiosNotify mini-protocol toward the full block-announcement flow. Lace 2.2 introduced Bitcoin support for L
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Blog 4 months ago
Cardano Foundation and Reef Data eG announce partnership
The Cardano Foundation partnered with Reef Data eG, a Hamburg-based data cooperative, to record payment flows transparently and auditably on the Cardano blockchain using Reeve, the Foundation's open-source reporting transparency platform. Reef Data develo
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Blog 4 months ago
Weekly Development Report
The ledger team continued Leios integration and implemented CIP-181, removing the DRep-delegation requirement for reward withdrawals. The Lace wallet update introduced in-app swaps, CardanoCube integration, and Ledger and Trezor hardware wallet support. T
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Blog 4 months ago
Community Digest
The Van Rossem hard fork activated at Protocol Version 11, marking Cardano's first hard fork proposed, debated, and ratified entirely through on-chain governance. The 2026 Constitutional Committee election entered its final voting days, with candidates di
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Blog 4 months ago
Weekly Development Report
The consensus team stabilized the Leios testnet with two prototype builds and a voting dashboard for endorser block observability. The High Assurance team shipped the Plinth Static Analyzer on the Visual Studio Marketplace and a JSON-RPC backend for prope
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Blog 4 months ago
Constitutional Committee Election 2026: Real Talk with the Candidates
A Cardano Community roundtable hosted three Constitutional Committee candidates to discuss what serving on the Committee involves as the 2026 election gets underway. Moderated by the Cardano Foundation governance lead, the session moved past a traditional
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Technologies named in job postings at Cardano Foundation over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
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