Congrats to the Cardano Community!
Musashi Dojo is live!
@IOGroup launches the public testnet for Ouroboros Leios on Cardano with @Cardano_CF@IntersectMBO and @blinklabs_io
Basically, faster transactions with the same security, decentralization, and backward compatibility.
Leios is the scaling solution for Cardano.
One year ago it was a research paper from IO Research. Today it's a live prototype on a public testnet, ready for you to test, use, and push to its limits.
The Musashi Dojo is open.
https://t.co/EI6nlxHqYF
We're proud to announce that Ripple USD ($RLUSD) is now officially available in Japan, following approval from the Japan Financial Services Agency (JFSA): https://t.co/ChkYMQ6kxW
Through our partnership with SBI Group and @sbivc_official, $RLUSD will be accessible to both institutional and retail users via the VCTRADE platform, serving as a bridge for payments, tokenization, and collateral management.
With $1.7 billion in market cap and a 10-year relationship with SBI, this is a significant milestone in advancing regulated stablecoin adoption across Asia.
Mithril is moving into its next phase.
Teragone takes over the workstream, bringing deep cryptography expertise and continuity coordinated through Intersect. Milestones are public, repos are open, the work continues.
Just in: @FortuneMagazine has included Cardano on the Fortune Crypto Innovators 2026 list.
Selected from more than 150 nominations, Fortune's list of 30 recognizes those "pushing the digital assets ecosystem forward."
⚡️WALL STREET SUCCESSFULLY TESTS 5-SECOND XRP SETTLEMENT
JPMorgan, Mastercard, Ondo Finance and Ripple completed a cross-border tokenized Treasury redemption on the XRP Ledger.
Settlement took roughly 5 seconds, versus 3 to 5 business days on traditional banking rails.
$ADA is now included in the new @Nasdaq and @CMEGroup crypto index futures, alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other market leaders.
The Cardano ecosystem keeps maturing, and Wall Street is noticing.
What matters long term is not short-term market sentiment, but whether an ecosystem continues to build meaningful infrastructure and attract real adoption.
Cardano today has:
Decentralized Governance operating at scale through CIP-1694 and on-chain voting
One of the strongest open-source communities in the industry, with contributors building across research, protocol development, tooling, and applications worldwide
Institutional Transparency anchored directly on-chain, where governance actions, treasury activity, and ecosystem operations are publicly verifiable
Growing DeFi initiatives including
Bifrost by Fluid Tokens
Pogun by IOG
Sundial Protocol
Charms
BTC Karma
Expanding RWA and digital identity infrastructure through projects like Veridian and tokenization initiatives across multiple regions
Global public/private sector collaborations spanning education, telecommunications, digital identity, and blockchain infrastructure
Examples of transparent on-chain activity already visible today include:
DRep registrations and governance actions
Treasury withdrawals and constitutional committee activity
Ecosystem and partner network activity
Native asset issuance and RWA directly on London Stock Exchange
20.000 farmers in India combining satellite data, identity, education and industry
Everything verifiable. Everything auditable. Built in public.
The work continues.
We are happy to announce a Cardano x Draper Dragon x Bitcoin side event to Token2049.
Funded by Cardano Foundation and Draper Dragon.
We look forward to sharing more details soon.
Thanks for the X space Draper @OrionFund team!
Cardano futures are now available for 24/7 trading on @CMEGroup.
Regulated, institutional access to $ADA is a meaningful signal of how far this ecosystem has come.
The Trillion Dollar Privacy Question with @IOHK_Charles
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:43 Why Big Companies Fail Onchain
03:21 What Is @MidnightNtwrk?
07:04 Web 2.5 & Partner Chain Model
09:09 Token Distribution & Airdrop
12:06 Purism vs. Pragmatism Framework
14:27 AI Hacking Threat Coming
16:24 Midnight vs. Zcash
20:42 Near Intents & Account Abstraction
24:42 Midnight Passport Explained
31:23 Bitcoin's Three Quantum Options
33:56 BIP 361 Breakdown
36:56 DARPA Quantum Benchmarking
39:03 White Hat Race for Satoshi's Coins?
40:18 Hard Fork Problem for Bitcoin
Who is the Cardano Fundamentals track for?
It contains a structured introduction for beginners, a technical deep dive for web3 natives, and use cases in DeFi, gaming, and tokenization for builders.
Discover Cardano and earn a free certificate in around 3 hours 👇
https://t.co/GW98hZjbYR
📊 INSIGHT: CARDANO APPROVES $80M ORION FUND TO TAP BITCOIN LIQUIDITY
Cardano made a major strategic shift toward external liquidity growth by approving an $80M venture-style fund led by Draper Dragon, deploying $15M to bridge dormant Bitcoin capital into its DeFi ecosystem.