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Proof-of-stake public blockchain built on an extended UTxO ledger model, with ADA as its native token.
Cardano's 30 enacted treasury withdrawals have used 457.4 million ADA of a 500 million ADA cap that runs to about July 2027, CryptoSlate reported. A pending 22 million ADA copper-reserve request would take more than half of that room.
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Vitalik Buterin said on X on Oct. 7 that AI progress in mathematics could weaken lattice schemes ML-DSA and Falcon within two years. He suggested raising lattice key sizes tenfold to protect encryption outside blockchains.
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Charles Hoskinson said on Oct. 9 that Vitalik Buterin's AI warning could slow the lattice-based protections NIST standardized in 2024. Ethereum is the one project the sources show moving away from lattices, so the test is whether anyone else follows.
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Cardano Foundation spun out Veridian with shares issued as Swiss DLT Act securities, the first asset on Cardano's CIP-0113 token standard. No price for the shares has been disclosed, and the first test of equity changing hands under the standard's transfer checks is the outside raise Veridian plans for 2027.
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Cardano Foundation put CIP-0113 live on mainnet Oct. 7, letting stablecoin, fund and bond issuers freeze, seize or block token transfers without a hard fork. Depending on an issuer's rules, holders accept that an authorized party can move their tokens without consent.
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ADA open interest tracked by Santiment rose 25% to $304 million in two days, about 4.6 times the $66.8 million of stablecoins on Cardano. Another rejection at $0.28 would leave those new longs facing liquidation with few on-chain dollars to buy what they are forced to sell.
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Cardano's CIP-113 token standard, merged on Sept. 29, lets an issuer's freeze on one asset block unrelated tokens and ADA held in the same output. Wallets and lenders have to decide how they bundle assets before a freeze, since the issuer's rules can forbid splitting them afterward.
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Petrobras is testing the Cardano blockchain in two research projects that track emissions claims on sustainable jet fuel and renewable diesel. With no fuel volumes or timeline attached, the test cannot yet be sized against Shell's Avelia registry, credited with more than 84 million gallons since 2022.
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Cardano's integration has landed in the x402 toolkit, so an autonomous agent can buy a single API call without an account, an API key or a subscription plan behind it. Whether anyone sells that way is a separate question.
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