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Cardano is a proof-of-stake blockchain platform: the first to be founded on peer-reviewed research and developed through evidence-based methods. It combines pioneering technologies to provide unparalleled security and sustainability to decentralized applications, systems, and societies.
With a leading team of engineers, Cardano exists to redistribute power from unaccountable structures to the margins – to individuals – and be an enabling force for positive change and progress.
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Proof-Of-Stake And Ouroboros: The Most Environmentally Sustainable Blockchain Protocol
Ouroboros is the first peer-reviewed, verifiably-secure blockchain protocol, and Cardano is the first blockchain to implement it. Ouroboros enables decentralization in the Cardano network on a sustainable scale for global requirements and most crucially, without compromising security.
The protocol is the result of tireless efforts, based on foundational research, propelled by a vision for more secure and transparent global payment systems, and provides the means to equitably redistribute power and control.
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Stay up to date with the latest developments, announcements, and community updates from the Cardano ecosystem.
Community Digest
Budget voting is live via Hydra; the Van Rossem hard fork is active on PreProd; new CIPs target pool pledges and L2 voting; the Cardano Foundation partners with the Brazilian Olympic Committee.
Cardano is connecting to all of crypto
Cardano is integrating LayerZero to allow over 800 tokens to move natively and securely into its ecosystem, with a phased rollout scheduled to complete by the end of 2026.
Weekly Development Report
Lace 2.0.6 fixes DRep signing; Leios prototype advances to the Dijkstra era; Hydra removes UTXO head limits via partial fanout; Mithril optimizes SNARK circuit caching.
Verifying Origins and Data on Cardano
The Cardano Foundation is recruiting mentors for the CAP Fall 2026 cohort to provide targeted, one-on-one business guidance to five data-verification startups.
The Leios roadmap to solving the blockchain trilemma
The Leios roadmap details how Cardano achieves horizontal scalability on consumer-grade hardware by combining decoupled transaction sequencing with SNARKs, DAS, and UTXO sharding.
Why Intersect facilitates an election process to confirm a new Constitutional Committee
Intersect is facilitating the Constitutional Committee elections as a neutral steward to fulfill an unowned governance function and prevent stalling the network's constitutional update process.
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Cardano is the first blockchain platform to be built through peer-reviewed research, to be secure enough to protect the data of billions, scalable enough to accommodate global systems, and robust enough to support foundational change.
We have changed science. We have changed what it means to build global systems and sustainable models of exchange and governance.