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Weekly development report as of 2026-09-04
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2026-09-04

CORE TECHNOLOGY Last week, the performance and tracing team benchmarked the Cardano node v.11.1.0 and analyzed both release and pre-release performance. The benchmarks showed reduced process CPU usage, alongside an increase in resident set size, which is being addressed in the v.11.1.1 patch release. The team also enhanced beacon benchmarking with metrics ...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-08-28
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2026-08-28

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team resolved an issue with the attack in the Leios prototype targeting how nodes announce endorser blocks, which had been causing honest nodes to disconnect from each other (#2179). They also extended db-analyser to read Leios chains, enabling the tool to replay a chain and report the cost of applying each block, in...
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Ouroboros Peras Weekly Update : 21 August 2026
Tweag by Modus Create
PerasWeekly development updates+ 1

Ouroboros Peras Weekly Update : 21 August 2026

This week, we started onboarding a few new colleagues who will help us make Peras mainnet-ready. Several working groups have also been launched, with each investigating a different area: graceful termination and other potential optimisations for the ObjectDiffusion mini-protocol; implementing support for historical certificates and extending Ouroboros Genes...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-08-21
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2026-08-21

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the ledger team continued advancing Leios support by extending the pool distribution to include the corresponding BLS key and per-pool BLS-attributed stake, making BLS-related pool information available wherever pool distribution data is consumed. The team also began groundwork for a broader refactor of predicate failures toward ...
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Five years of Cardano smart-contract audits
Tweag by Modus Create
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Five years of Cardano smart-contract audits

Tweag by Modus Create has been auditing Cardano smart contracts since late 2021. Mathieu Montin has written a retrospective on what more than 20 audits and 276 findings taught us: the patterns we keep seeing, what’s getting safer, and what still needs work. A few highlights: Whole classes of Cardano/EUTXO-specific vulnerabilities, such as double satisfacti...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-08-14
Olga Hryniuk
Weekly development updatesStatistics

Weekly development report as of 2026-08-14

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team released prototype-2026w32 and continued advancing Leios prototype development. The node now generates and sends endorser-block announcements to peers, which is the first step toward full announcement-based diffusion. The team also added validation to reject malformed Dijkstra blocks and fixed several testnet ob...
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A Revolutionary Cross-chain Portfolio-Based Liquidity Aggregator & Exchange for the Crypto World
Pete - Blueshift
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A Revolutionary Cross-chain Portfolio-Based Liquidity Aggregator & Exchange for the Crypto World

Blueshift is a cross-chain portfolio-based liquidity aggregator and exchange that aims to bring cross-chain swaps and liquidity to the Cardano ecosystem. There are many issues and barriers to gaining mass adoption across the entire cryptocurrency industry and we have a solution to provide cross-chain movement of assets without using bridges and wrapped asset...
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UPDATE: Cardano Cross-Chain Bridges and Other Interoperability Solutions
temujin@wanchain.org
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UPDATE: Cardano Cross-Chain Bridges and Other Interoperability Solutions

TL;DR Decentralised, non-custodial, bi-directional cross-chain bridges are officially up and running on Cardano Pre-Production! This means that ADA, other native Cardano tokens, and all erc20 tokens can seamlessly move between Cardano and any EVM-based network! Next step? Mainnet!  Last July, the team at Wanchain shared details about their ongoing work with...
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Bridging the gap: Cardano goes multichain with LayerZero
Ivan Irakoze
CardanoPentad+ 3

Bridging the gap: Cardano goes multichain with LayerZero

One of the most widely adopted interoperability messaging protocols in Web3 is coming to Cardano LayerZero, the omnichain messaging protocol that connects over 160 blockchains and has facilitated over $200 billion in cross-chain volume, is integrating with Cardano.  This is a landmark ecosystem initiative that unlocks cross-chain access to over 400 tokens,...
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Accelerating Cardano's scalability: how Leios’ development follows the sun
Ivan Irakoze
CardanoLeios+ 1

Accelerating Cardano's scalability: how Leios’ development follows the sun

The Cardano ecosystem stands on the threshold of a transformative upgrade that could redefine what's possible on a proof-of-stake blockchain: Ouroboros Leios. What makes this development compelling is not just the technical achievement it represents, but how blockchain’s global nature accelerates its progress. The continuous, collaborative approach to devel...
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Introducing the Cardano EVM sidechain
Olga Hryniuk
CardanoBasho+ 3

Introducing the Cardano EVM sidechain

The Cardano EVM sidechain is a fully decentralized scalability solution deployed by IOG. Find out more about its features, benefits, and delivery plans Cardano is growing. Expanding. The Vasil upgrade will open up even more opportunities for efficient development and usage of various DApps and DeFi products on Cardano. Sidechains and layer 2 solutions are ...
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Weekly development report as of 2025-12-12
Emmanuel
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2025-12-12

Dear community, this report marks the final development update of 2025. Wishing everyone warm holiday cheer and a wonderful New Year 🎄✨ Here’s to the year ahead — full of fresh progress, new milestones, and shared success! ECOSYSTEM UPDATES The information in this section is based on publicly available sources and is provided for informational purposes ...
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