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Cardano Prototype Explores Trustless Swaps With Shielded Zcash
Cardano developer open-sources zeUTXO, a simulator-only prototype for trustless ADA-to-shielded Zcash atomic swaps without bridges, oracles, relays or light clients. The unaudited project seeks community review and development while highlighting the gap between cryptographic design and live network testing.
What Is Cardano, and Why Should You Care?
A beginner-friendly guide to Cardano, ADA, Midnight, blockchain, digital identity, zero-knowledge privacy, and the potential real-world applications that could make decentralized technology useful beyond cryptocurrency speculation.
Cardano Foundation Maps a Route From Plutus V3 to Production ZK Proofs
Cardano Foundation’s new technical guide shows how Groth16 zero-knowledge proofs can be generated off-chain and verified in Plutus V3 smart contracts, while outlining the performance, trusted-setup and production challenges ahead.
EMURGO’s DRep Exit Tests Cardano’s Delegation System
EMURGO and Yoroi will deregister Cardano DRep keys on November 30, prompting delegators to reassess representatives as governance votes and voting power shift during a critical transition.
Midnight’s Privacy Chain Makes Cardano Operators Validators, Not Its Security Blanket
Midnight operates as an independent privacy network with its own validators, consensus and tokens, while Cardano SPOs provide infrastructure expertise, not automatic shared security, privacy guarantees or economic protection.
Cardano Survey Calls for One Voice, More DeFi Liquidity and Higher Spending
A 150-response Intersect survey finds strong support for unified Cardano messaging, builder-focused promotion and treasury-backed DeFi liquidity, while debate over protocol-wide marketing remains unresolved ahead of the 2026 budget cycle.
Cardano Leios Prototype Reworks Capacity Around Real Quorum Results
Cardano’s Leios prototype is revising capacity controls around quorum results while delaying mempool reservations until committees can certify endorser blocks. Pull requests reveal prototype tradeoffs, replay data, and unresolved recovery questions.
Cardano Proposal Would Divide 2027 Treasury Planning Into Seven Domains
Intersect’s proposed Cardano 2027 budget framework would divide the Net Change Limit into seven domains while preserving DRep control ahead of a November 10 information action.
Mithril Tests Cardano Node 11.2 Before Production
Mithril’s October 30 unstable build adds preliminary Cardano node 11.2 compatibility for testing-preview, offering operators an early integration checkpoint while keeping the package away from mainnet and preprod.