Essential Cardano360 - October 2025 Edition

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

This month, we're bringing you highlights from IO's epic Asia Tour across Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, and Japan, plus governance updates from Intersect with Jack Briggs. We'll dive deeper into Ouroboros Leios with the Input | Output Engineering team, get the latest from Project Catalyst, including Fund14 results and an exciting Fund15 announcement. 

Plus, DeFi pioneers Fairgate and DeltaDeFi in our Building on Cardano segment.

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💻 Useful Links:

🔗 Asia Tour:

• Relive the Cardano community event in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 

• Watch key moments from Input | Output’s participation at Token2049:  

🔗 Intersect: 

• Read about the Intersect Budget Committee and the Cardano Foundation’s proposed multi-step framework to the budget process. 

• Become a part of the Intersect members-based organization.  

🔗 Project Catalyst:

• Get involved with Catalyst. 

• Follow Project Catalyst on X.

• Access Fund14 voting results. 

🔗 BuildingOnCardano

• Fairgate website. 

• Follow Fairgate on X.

• DeltaDeFi website. 

• Follow DeltaDeFi on X. 

📖 Other Content:

🔗 From the Blog:

• Leios monthly spotlight: September highlights 

• Introducing Ouroboros Phalanx – breaking the economics of grinding attacks 

• How Ouroboros Phalanx enhances network protection 

• How Input | Output embraces open source 

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

• Cardano governance: Beyond Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) roadmap 

🔗 To Watch

• Stablecoin Roundtable video

• Leios Monthly Review & Demo - September 2025 

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