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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
Development

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
DevelopmentWeekly development updates+ 1

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
DevelopmentWeekly development updates+ 1

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removed the legacy iohk-monitoring-based tracing backend from cardano-node, eliminating approximately 11,000 lines of outdated code across 15 modules and nine transitive build dependencies.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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Weekly development report as of 2026-06-19
Olga Hryniuk
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2026-06-19

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team focused on Mithril integration: nodes running on an on-disk backend can now export snapshots in the portable in-memory format, allowing Mithril signers to obtain the agreed format directly from the node. They also implemented a new snapshot policy that makes ledger state snapshot timing predictable using agreed-...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-06-12
Olga Hryniuk
developmentWeekly development updates+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2026-06-12

SMART CONTRACTS This week, the Cardano High Assurance team has finalized a beta version of the property-based testing tool and is pursuing internal testing. The team introduced a testing interface to easily explore a vast variety of scenarios, automated positive testing to verify the contracts meet their specifications, negative testing to ensure the testin...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-06-05
Olga Hryniuk
DevelopmentWeekly development updates+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2026-06-05

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the performance and tracing team published release benchmarks for node v.11.0.1 and ran feature benchmarks for TxSubmissionLogicV2 and compiler version comparisons. On the development side, the team removed legacy tracing and completed work on genesis caching and post-processing infrastructure. The cardano-tracer HTTP API for metr...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-05-29
Olga Hryniuk
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2026-05-29

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the ledger team focused on the Plutus context performance work: the validation rules now consume precomputed information stored in StAnnTx rather than recomputing it, completing an optimization arc spanning several cycles. In parallel, work began on removing the legacy Coders machinery from the codebase, with several call sites al...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-05-22
Olga Hryniuk
DevelopmentWeekly development updates+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2026-05-22

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team delivered the first voting capability in the Leios prototype: nodes now diffuse votes over a dedicated mini-protocol, and a voting thread casts votes on completed endorser-block closures. This forms the foundation for committee-based endorsement and is exercised by new threadnet property tests (#1963). The team...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-05-15
Olga Hryniuk
Weekly development updatesdevelopment+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2026-05-15

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, IO’s core technology teams released Cardano node v.11.0.1, the first release to support the protocol version 11 intra-era hard fork. This enables the upgrade to protocol version 11 once the hard fork governance action has been voted on by stake pool operators, delegated representatives, and the constitutional committee, and enacte...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-05-08
Olga Hryniuk
DevelopmentWeekly development updates+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2026-05-08

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past few weeks, the consensus team has continued working on the Leios prototype development as part of the treasury funding initiative 4. The team completed migrating endorser-block announcements and certification flags from the ledger block to the Praos header, aligning the prototype with the original Leios design (#1978, ouroboros...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-05-01
Olga Hryniuk
DevelopmentWeekly development updates+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2026-05-01

CORE TECHNOLOGY IO's treasury proposals are live on the proposals website. For context on previously funded work, the team published the Q4 2025 – Q1 2026 delivery report, which covers what IO delivered for Cardano under the previous funding cycle. To support the community in reviewing the proposals, IO has been hosting a series of X Spaces. A general kick...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-04-24
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2026-04-24

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, IO’s treasury proposals went live on the proposals website. The teams submitted nine proposals focusing on performance, scalability, and capability improvements, with a funding ask of just under 50% of last year’s and a clear focus on delivery. Delegated representative (DRep) voting is open now and closes on May 24. Explore the ...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-04-17
Olga Hryniuk
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2026-04-17

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, teams at Input Output are finalizing 2026 treasury proposals for continued Cardano development. Nine proposals – spanning core protocol maintenance, consensus, upgrades, scaling, developer experience, smart contracts, and more – support a defined body of work, with clear ownership, timelines, and a direct link to Cardano’s 2030 vi...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-04-10
Olga Hryniuk
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2026-04-10

CARDANO HIGH ASSURANCE This week, the Cardano High Assurance team released a complete formalization of Plutus Core, UPLC, and CEK machine in Lean 4, called PlutusCoreBlaster. Combined with the automated formal reasoning backend, Blaster, developers can now formally verify that the compiled UPLC of their smart contracts meets the intended business requireme...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-04-03
Olga Hryniuk
DevelopmentWeekly development updates+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2026-04-03

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the performance and benchmarking team ran compiler benchmarks on node v.10.6.2 and evaluated new tracing features. They also began developing a new project – tx-centrifuge– a transaction submission service designed to generate extremely high, continuous workloads. Regarding infrastructure, the team addressed minor maintenance tas...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-03-27
Olga Hryniuk
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2026-03-27

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past few weeks, the networking team supported the upcoming node v.10.7.0 release and released the new versions of ouroboros-network and cardano-diffusion. For Leios, work remained in progress on mux egress prioritization, transaction submission v2 performance improvements and demo, and updates to the network section. Across ourobo...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-03-20
Olga Hryniuk
Weekly development updatesDevelopment

Weekly development report as of 2026-03-20

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past few weeks, the ledger team has progressed work on nested transactions by implementing an additional ledger rule. They also integrated the new testing library AntiGen into the ledger, enabling negative property testing of decoders against the CDDL specification. This improves confidence in the quality of binary decoders, both fo...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-03-13
Olga Hryniuk
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 2

Weekly development report as of 2026-03-13

ECOSYSTEM UPDATES The information in this section is based on publicly available sources and is provided for informational purposes only. It does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of any project, product, or service mentioned. This week in ecosystem updates: Binance listed the NIGHT token this week and conducted an airdrop to BNB holders Th...
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Weekly development report as of 2026-03-06
Olga Hryniuk
EcosystemDevelopment+ 2

Weekly development report as of 2026-03-06

ECOSYSTEM UPDATES The information in this section is based on publicly available sources and is provided for informational purposes only. It does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of any project, product, or service mentioned. This week in ecosystem updates: Ada will now be accepted as a payment method in 137 SPAR stores across Switzerland ...
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