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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-processing speedup, YAML node configuration, and native HD wallet key support. The developer experience team completed its Communit...

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 a Constitutional Amendment Proposal or raise an issue, and follow each proposal through its lifecycle. Wallet connection u...

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 DiSarro, Leandros BSP, Marek Mahut, and Cardano Curia as elected candidates. The Musashi Dojo public Leios testnet moved to pa...

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 pool operators. The lower fixed fee gives small pools breathing room as block rewards decline, while the completed memory in...

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 Ledger and Trezor hardware wallets, added SeedSigner air-gapped signing, and published the results of an independent securit...