With four committee seats expiring September 1 and the vote short of threshold, the recovery path matters. Cardano ran this scenario in December 2025. Here is the playbook.
Four of seven Constitutional Committee seats expire at epoch 653. The renewal vote needs 67% DRep support and had 32.46% on August 17. Here is what stalls if it fails.
Cardano's next era is now two upgrades, not one. Linear Leios targets Q4 2026, Peras follows in Q2 2027, and a constitutional amendment is due by September 11.
Cardano and Injective switched on a live IBC connection this month. It is testnet-only and experimental - but IBC verifies consensus rather than trusting a bridge operator.
Grayscale withdrew its Cardano ETF registration on August 7, two days before ADA cleared the six-month futures test. What that does and does not mean.
On August 9, CME's ADA futures complete the six-month trading history the SEC requires. That makes a Cardano spot ETF eligible - eligibility is not approval.
Voting in Cardano's 2026 Constitutional Committee election closed on July 23. Preliminary results point to four winners - Marek Mahut, Cardano Curia, Leandros BSP, and Philip DiSarro - with the audit and on-chain update-committee action up next.
Cardano moved to Protocol Version 11 on July 18 with no disruption. A look at how the ratification vote went, the razor-thin SPO margin, and what enactment means on the road to Leios.
Cexplorer launches its public API - professional access to Cardano on-chain data, from transactions and assets to stake pools and governance. Available on Mainnet, Preprod and Preview, with a free tier for everyone, flexible paid plans, and PRO Pass NFTs for increased limits. Get your API key in minutes at cexplorer.io.
AlphaGrowth requests 120M ADA from the Cardano treasury for PRIME, a 12-month DeFi growth program. Gated funding, $200M+ TVL target, vote ends August 12.
RealFi's Phase 1 testnet is live on Cardano preprod. Learn how the USDr stablecoin and its sUSDr yield layer work, where the real-world yield comes from, and why an IOG-built stablecoin could fix Cardano's biggest DeFi gap.
The RealFi Phase 1 testnet launched on Cardano on July 6, introducing USDr - a yield-bearing stablecoin backed by real-world assets, offering up to 9% APY. Here is what it means for Cardano's DeFi and the road to $1B TVL.
How could attackers steal ADA using only public blockchain data? A plain-language explanation of the signing flaw behind the SecondFi exploit - and why restoring your seed phrase in another wallet won't protect you.
A critical flaw in SecondFi's wallet software exposed private keys of 374 Cardano addresses, draining ~16M ADA. Here's what's confirmed, what's disputed, and what affected users should do - updated with the recovery timeline.
Cardano is approaching its next protocol upgrade - the van Rossem hard fork. Here is what it changes and why the process behind it is just as significant as the upgrade itself.
Midnight Foundation released Node 2.0.0 Alpha, introducing Ledger 9 and the foundational code for a Cardano-to-Midnight bridge enabling future trustless asset transfers between the two networks.
The Leios public testnet launches June 23, 2026, marking a major milestone in Cardano's scalability roadmap with a target of 10-65x throughput increase.
The Midnight Foundation has launched the Night Sky Accelerator, a 10-week program for early-stage teams building privacy-first businesses. Applications open until July 15th.
Four of the seven Constitutional Committee seats are up for election in 2026. Here is a quick overview of the timeline, voting process, eligibility requirements and recent changes introduced for this election cycle.
Cardano DReps approved six of Input Output Group's nine on-chain treasury proposals, unlocking ₳131.5 million out of a ₳162 million ask. Pogun, Blockfrost, and the L2 Scalability Initiative did not pass.