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Weekly development report as of 2026-08-14
Olga Hryniuk
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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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Weekly development report as of 2026-08-07
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2026-08-07

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the performance and tracing team completed benchmarks for the Van Rossem hard fork, covering new Plutus execution budgets, internals, and a PlutusV3 baseline shift. The team also finalized the Hermod package restructure, added cardano-config support to trace-dispatcher, and delivered the genesis cache overhaul and protocol version...
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Weekly development update as of 2026-07-31
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development update as of 2026-07-31

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team released prototype-2026w29 (#996), enabling the node to certify and announce endorser blocks inside the forging loop – expected to raise the certification rate and throughput (#2105). They also improved testnet stability by addressing an issue with Dijkstra block handling (#2140), updated the prototype dashboard...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-07-24
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2026-07-24

CORE TECHNOLOGY Cardano's engineering is now decentralized. Since 2024, IO and its partners have been managing a transition that will conclude in 2027, resulting in several independent firms maintaining at least three Cardano node implementations in Haskell, Rust, and Go, alongside a complete set of formal specifications overseen by member-based organizatio...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-07-17
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2026-07-17

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team continued to stabilize the Leios testnet, releasing two prototype builds – prototype-2026w27a and prototype-2026w28 – and fixing several bugs identified during testnet runs. The team also implemented a voting dashboard to improve Leios observability, showing how endorser blocks are voted on and certified. They a...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-07-10
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2026-07-10

CORE TECHNOLOGY This month, the performance and tracing team removed the legacy iohk-monitoring-based tracing backend from cardano-node, eliminating approximately 11,000 lines of outdated code across 15 modules and nine transitive build dependencies. The team also removed RTView from cardano-tracer, with its functionality now fully covered by the Grafana da...
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UPDATE: Cardano Cross-Chain Bridges and Other Interoperability Solutions
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UPDATE: Cardano Cross-Chain Bridges and Other Interoperability Solutions

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Bridging the gap: Cardano goes multichain with LayerZero
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Accelerating Cardano's scalability: how Leios’ development follows the sun
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Accelerating Cardano's scalability: how Leios’ development follows the sun

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How Ouroboros Phalanx enhances network protection
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