Essential Cardano360 - May 2025 Edition

Welcome to your May edition of Essential Cardano360, the monthly show where we bring you a curated roundup of key developments, community insights, and ecosystem progress from across the Cardano universe.

This month, we spotlight the upcoming Constitutional Committee Elections and what they mean for Cardano’s next phase of decentralized governance.

Linda (@cryptofly777) joins us to talk about Bitcoin DeFi and how it’s expanding access to Cardano’s growing DeFi ecosystem.

We check in with Project Catalyst as Fund14 approaches and nearly 50 projects celebrate milestone completions. Plus, we explore updates to the Edinburgh Decentralization Index, preview October’s UPLC event in Edinburgh, and dip into the IO Engineering roadmap with Geoff Watson.

From new research initiatives to a growing presence in Argentina - there’s a lot happening across the ecosystem.

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💻 Useful Links:

🔗 Intersect:

• Become a part of the Intersect Members based organization

• Learn more about the Intersect committee elections April 2025

• More info

• A new dawn. New Cardano.

🔗Guest Influencer

• Follow Linda on X

• Follow Linda on YouTube

🔗 Project Catalyst

• Website

• Catalyst 2025 Proposal

• Catalyst Horizons Annual Report 2025

🔗Edinburgh Decentralization Index

• Learn more about the EDI

🔗IOE Roadmap

• Learn more here and here.

• Project Acropolis

🔗UPLC Conference

• Register your interest

🔗BuildingOnCardano

• Blockfrost website

• Follow Blockfrost on X

🔗Other:

• Mithril: powering lightweight access to the Cardano blockchain

• Native tokens in the extended UTXO model

• Cardano’s EUTXO model: bringing deterministic predictability to blockchain

• Messari's "State of Cardano" report

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