Essential Cardano360 - January 2026 Edition

Welcome to the January edition of Essential Cardano360 - your monthly look at the people, progress, and projects shaping Cardano.

This month, we have a governance roundup with Jack Briggs from Intersect covering the holiday period's on-chain activity. We introduce Bitcoin DeFi with project lead Omer Hussain, and get the latest from Input Output Research with Fergie Miller. Easton from Lace walks us through the wallet's multi-chain and mobile expansion, and in our Building on Cardano segment, we spotlight

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💻 Useful Links:

🔗 Intersect Governance Update:

• Learn more about Intersect

• Follow Intersect on X

• Read about the net change limit extension

• Read about the Constitutional Committee snap election

• Cardano 2030 Vision and Strategy info action

• Register for the Cardano Africa Tech Summit Nairobi (Feb 11-13)

• Register for BuilderFest Buenos Aires (March 2026)

🔗 Input Output Research:

• IOR Cardano Vision Work Program 2025: End-year report – Fundamental Research (Draft) 

• IOR Cardano Vision Work Program 2025: End-year report – Technology Validation (Draft)

• Cardano Vision 2025 IOR reports video

• Leios Development Tracker

• Leios Documentation

🔗 Lace:

• Lace website

• Follow Lace on X

🔗 BuildingOnCardano:

• Xerberus website

• Follow Xerberus on X

• No Witness Labs website

• Follow No Witness Labs on X 

• Evolution SDK: a new era for Cardano development

• Evolution SDK documentation

• Masumi website

• Follow Masumi on X 

🔗 Governance:

• Beyond MVG Project: December 2025 progress report

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