Cardano’s UTXO-HD project has seen significant advancements from the consensus team, with improvements in the mempool benchmarks. They have also released version 0.10.0 of the quick check-state machine library, which is crucial for high-assurance property tests. The project has been rebased on top of node v.8.11, achieving a replay with the in-memory backend in just over five hours. The Plutus and consensus teams have formed technical working groups under Intersect to encourage community collaboration. The Hydra team has released a new version of the Hydra node, focusing on the commit transaction mechanism and networking protocol upgrades. The Mithril team has introduced a protocol insights dashboard and an explorer page for active and deregistered SPOs. Cardano’s on-chain governance is expanding with the testing of CIP-1694 in the SanchoNet community. The market metrics for ADA reflect active community engagement, with a slight increase in market capitalization and a decrease in trading volume. Despite recent market decline, Cardano’s long-term outlook remains promising.
