"..Cardano is a decentralized ecosystem of blockchain technology, smart contracts, and community governance committed to improving economic, political, and social systems for everyone, everywhere.
By offering this foundational infrastructure, we empower individuals and communities to manage their identity, value, and governance, fostering the emergence of decentralized applications, businesses, and network states.."
Input Output Group's RealFi will launch its Phase 1 testnet on Cardano on July 6.
RealFi targets a simple but large problem: billions in stablecoins sit idle earning nothing, and the product aims to channel that liquidity into real-world lending rather than purely crypto-native yield.
The product is associated with USDr, a stablecoin designed to deploy liquidity into real-world financial instruments — direct lending, money-market instruments, U.S. Treasury bills, and global floating-rate bonds — reportedly targeting yield without lockups.
The testnet phase runs alongside an initial institutional onboarding process, with broader availability anticipated later in 2026.
It is an early but meaningful step toward connecting #Cardano's stablecoin liquidity with real-economy returns, pushing DeFi beyond the closed loop of on-chain speculation and toward the kind of yield that draws institutional capital onto $ADA
Read about Mithril's move to Teragone: the specialist team that has worked on the protocol since its earliest releases takes the lead on development.
Mithril lets new nodes join Cardano in minutes, not days. Same security. A fraction of the bandwidth. Nothing changes for SPOs, the work continues in the open.
https://t.co/3fPMBtoBnJ
Here are a few updates on StarchPay.
- I updated the security for nodes.
- By default the node provides CBOR, but we can also get data in JSON or HEX.
- The process for creating the genesis block is completed.
- The first version of PSL (Potato Serialization Library) has been completed.
Since I'm doing a re-write I'm also taking the time to add more security updates and preparing things for another testnet.
I'd also like to run a game or some kind of community event and use that to add data to the official genesis block.
An example of the genesis block in JSON: https://t.co/PUSoFknwXC