Proposed naming the next hard fork to Protocol Version 11 as the "van Rossem" hard fork, after DRep Max van Rossem.

Partnered with Lava Network and Wizard to deliver CardanoScale, an initiative providing an ultra-reliable Cardano RPC Gateway powered by SPOs for Cardano builders.

Ranks 9th in development activity over the past 30 days according to Santiment's GitHub repository analysis, showing a decline in rank since the previous month.

Included in the unified Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index alongside Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana, Chainlink, and Avalanche.

Developers building on Cardano using Blockfrost can store data on Filecoin, as Blockfrost archives IPFS gateway data on Filecoin with cryptographic hashes and onchain storage proofs.

Users are targeted in a sophisticated phishing campaign spreading fake "Eternl Desktop" announcements to install malware.

Leios scaling work is actively tracked as a major throughput and latency roadmap theme.

Plans to bridge SOL to ADA through collaboration between Solana and Cardano founders.

VinceTrust tokenized real medical equipment through its ADA Medical Equipment Portfolio on Cardano, enabling investors to earn yield from the use of diagnostic and surgical tools.

A native asset on Cardano achieved trading volume exceeding the combined trading volume of XRP and SOL.

Embracing lattice-based cryptography as opposed to hash-based cryptography approaches used by other protocols.

New roadmap assumes a 500% price explosion to mask an alarming gap in real protocol revenue.

Integrated with Dune Analytics as part of the Pentad development phase.

Ratified an on-chain vote to restore the Constitutional Committee to full capacity.

Has 4.54 million non-empty wallets on its network.

has a staking ratio of 57.7% of circulating supply

ADA is down 65-78% since President Trump took office, underperforming BTC (-18%) and ETH (-10%) as capital retreats from higher beta assets during a risk-off phase in crypto markets.

Coinbase Derivatives launches US perpetual-style futures for ADA, now trading live 24/7 for both retail and institutional traders through approved FCM partners.

A collaborative livestream with Polkadot addresses ecosystem treasury sustainability, scheduled for 12:00 PM UTC tomorrow.

$NIGHT privacy project goes live on Cardano after completing a major airdrop. Polymarket approaches Cardano's top 10 cryptocurrency market cap ranking.

Cardano ranks 8th among blockchain ecosystems by mindshare with 1.92% in 2025, positioning it behind Solana (26.79%), Base (13.94%), Ethereum (13.43%), Sui (11.77%), BNB Chain (9.05%), XRP Ledger (4.68%), and Sonic (2.29%).

A $40 million liquidity gap threatens growth despite institutional-grade infrastructure now being in place.

ADA drops 26.6% over 30 days, underperforming most major altcoins except ONDO and RENDER in the recent market downturn.

Large wallets holding 100K-100M ADA accumulated +26,770 ADA since November 1st while small retail wallets (≤100 ADA) dumped -44,751 ADA during recent price declines.

ADA declines 6-7% alongside other major altcoins while Bitcoin rebounds to $92K from post-Fed lows.

NIGHT token and Midnight Network L1 blockchain launch on Cardano, with Redemption Portal live for token claims from 24B total supply distributed to 8M+ addresses with 450-day vesting schedule (4 equal 25% unlocks every 90 days). 4.5B+ NIGHT already claimed in phases 1 and 2.

NIGHT token distribution on Alpha rewards top 20,500 volume traders with 1,700 tokens each and top 18,100 depositors with 1,100 tokens each.

Cardano's 30-day MVRV ratio is -4.4% (neutral), indicating average traders are slightly down with neutral risk for opening or adding to swing trade positions.

Cardano forms Critical Cardano Integrations workstream to enhance DeFi strategy, with Pyth Pro integration as the first initiative.

SUI's DeFi TVL is 4.5 times higher than ADA's despite Cardano having nearly 3x higher market cap, highlighting a significant valuation-to-utility gap.

USDA stablecoin launches fiat gateways in 50 markets through Anzens partnership, powered by BitGo's institutional-grade custody infrastructure for deposits and withdrawals.

Trading for Midnight's NIGHT token is now live on Bitpanda, OKX, Bybit and other exchanges, with allocation claims active and a 4-phase thawing schedule spanning 1 year.

ADA jumps 8% with trading volume soaring 72% in 24 hours, ranking #4 among top daily crypto gainers on December 10, 2025.

Whale transfers 750 million ADA to Binance exchange.

CEO of NBX exchange calls USDM on Cardano the best stablecoin in the crypto industry.

Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund ETF begins trading on NYSE Arca after SEC clearance, including ADA among 10 cryptocurrencies in the fund.

OKX exchange announces support for Midnight (NIGHT) token airdrop distribution to holders of ADA, BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, BNB, AVAX, and BAT.

NBX exchange enables trading and distribution of Midnight network's NIGHT token.

Cardano holds 1.35% social dominance according to LunarCrush metrics, ranking 8th among tracked cryptocurrencies for mindshare and attention.

On December 1, 2025, Franklin Templeton's $1.6 trillion EZPZ ETF expands holdings to include ADA with 1% allocation in their regulated digital asset fund.

Midnight privacy chain opens claims for 4.5 billion NIGHT tokens on December 10.

Coinbase Derivatives launches 24/7 trading for Cardano monthly futures, with altcoin US Perpetual-Style Futures scheduled to go live on December 15.

Cardano executes a "silent reset" following a critical ledger error in November that nearly fractured the network.

Gate exchange launches Midnight Glacier Drop Phase 1 distributing 6.66 million NIGHT tokens (from 26.4M total pool) to holders of eight cryptocurrencies including ADA from December 5-8 UTC, with additional phases to follow.

Midnight privacy chain launches native NIGHT token for community access and liquidity toward decentralized mainnet, and top organizations approve 70 million ADA treasury withdrawal to fund infrastructure improvements.

BitGo integrates USDA as one of the first Cardano Native Tokens on its institutional custody platform, enabling secure institutional access to the Cardano DeFi ecosystem.

Cardano integration into Maya Protocol reaches final simulation testing stage with deployment scheduled within 1-2 weeks before year-end in Version 1.127 after clearing a key technical blocker last week.

Vanguard lists Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund including ADA, and Franklin Templeton expands Franklin Crypto Index ETF ($EZPZ) to include Cardano among eight cryptocurrencies.

Records 14% gain as one of four leading assets in crypto market rebound.

A chain split occurred in November 2025 caused by a single malformed transaction, resulting in two parallel ledger histories and hours of network fragmentation as newer and older nodes disagreed on transaction validity.

$250,000 ADA airdrop event launches on Crypto.com's Airdrop Arena platform, running from December 2, 2025 to January 1, 2026 with CRO-based participation.

Participation confirmed in closed-door Abu Dhabi Finance Week roundtable (Dec 10) with institutional finance leaders BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Grayscale, ADIA, and global regulators, resulting in policy report delivered to 50+ regulatory jurisdictions.

24-hour DEX volume on the network is 58,000% lower than Solana's volume.

A $30M initiative aims to bring real liquidity to the network.

First 8-chain airdrop targets 33 million wallets. Midnight network achieves computational power equivalent to 2.5 years of BTC mining in 20 days.

The blockchain recorded zero chain fees in the last week according to comparative analysis of previous cycle projects.

The network now has over 11 million tokens.

USDM stablecoin on Cardano grows faster than USDT did in its early days on Ethereum.

ADA has been added to the Franklin Templeton index ETF.

Everstake launches new staking pool offering 0% fees for 4 months and higher APY. The recent poisoned transaction attack caused 14-hour service disruption with a chain split but no funds lost, Charles Hoskinson called FBI on the community member responsible who has publicly apologized.

A new token $NIGHT (Midnight) launches in early December according to community sources.

Cardano grant work completes, with StageNet testing and final simulations as next steps for Maya protocol integration.

Reeve 1.2 launches today.

The network suffers a poisoned transaction attack.

Coinbase CFTC regulated derivatives division launches 24/7 trading and five-year perp-style futures for ADA in early December.

The network experiences another outage after the previous recovery. The FBI investigation response causes developers to view working on the platform as too risky.

A developer publicly announces plans to code exploits targeting the network following the recent chain split bug.

The network successfully recovered from the attack and behaved as intended according to protocol design. Current FDV stands at $18B.

The CEO's pursuit of FBI action against the contributor responsible for the network bug is causing other contributors to leave the project.

CEO officially confirms FBI has opened an investigation into the Friday network fork caused by legacy node code bug.

A malformed ADA delegation triggered a long-standing code bug causing a chain split with nodes diverging. DeFi on the network was disrupted during the incident.

Mainnet froze for approximately 30 minutes during the network incident. Currently ranked 11th with a 14B market cap and down 60% year-to-date.

The network attacker was active in the Fake Fred discord and is now attempting to retract statements after FBI involvement, with confirmation that no assets were stolen during the incident.

The perpetrator of the network incident is now bragging about forking the network. Market cap remains higher than both Zcash and Hyperliquid.

Coinbase Derivatives expands 24/7 futures trading to include ADA along with other altcoins.

DRiP has been bridged to Cardano due to market conditions. The network incident requiring the emergency node upgrade was a deliberate attack with the perpetrator identified and FBI involvement confirmed.

Cardano coordinated an emergency upgrade to node 10.5.2 with exchanges and SPOs following a network incident, with a post-mortem writeup planned to explain what happened and how it was resolved.

Zcash market cap is now approaching Cardano's market cap level, representing a significant narrowing in the gap between the two projects.

Btcos announces Cardano will become Bitcoin's smart contract layer via zkBTC technology in 2026, using their BOS token to connect UTXO blockchains in a unified DeFi system.

21Shares listed a Cardano ETP on Nasdaq Stockholm, bringing the issuer's total crypto products on the exchange to 16 and responding to demand for regulated crypto exposure in the Nordic market.

A trader predicts Cardano will fall out of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by 2026, stating that Hyperliquid, Monad, and Zcash will flip it next year.

Titan (formerly THORWallet) is working on Cardano integration while experiencing all-time highs in active users and swap volume.

Cardano founder publicly predicts Bitcoin will reach $250,000 in 2026 with a 6% probability assessment.

A whale sold 14M ADA (worth $7M) for 850k USDA, experiencing 85% slippage due to liquidity issues.

Trader publicly labels ADA as a "dead vc project" alongside other tokens, suggesting a trading strategy against these assets with claims of making money without risk.

Observable increase in paid promotional activity with shills positioning as Cardano maximalists.

Santiment data shows Cardano at #6 for notable development activity in the past 30 days, rising in rank compared to last month.

Santiment's 30-day MVRV metric places ADA in an "Extreme Buy Zone" alongside LINK and ETH, while BTC and XRP sit in "Good Buy Zones."

The Cardano Foundation community lead calls community members "useful idiots" for demanding oversight and accountability, with criticism over 6 million ADA spent on parties in Berlin and resistance to implementing KPIs.

Price currently at $0.48 compared to 2021 ATH of $3.10, while Bitcoin trades above its previous ATH at $95,000.

A whale who held funds dormant for 5 years swapped 14.4M ADA ($6.9M) for USDA stablecoin but received only $847K due to extremely low liquidity, losing $6M on the transaction.

The ecosystem needs increased USDM stablecoin liquidity.

24-hour trading volume jumped 63%.

Blockfrost and Fil Foundation partner to integrate Filecoin storage as a backup layer for Cardano applications, adding data redundancy and decentralization to the ecosystem through Blockfrost's infrastructure.

Sygnum's Future Finance 2025 report surveying over 1,000 institutional investors across 43 countries identifies Cardano among major blockchain holdings cited by institutions alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Tron, and Sui, with 61% planning to increase digital asset allocations.

NEAR and Cardano integrate Intents technology for cross-chain swaps.

Large holders accumulated 348M ADA worth $204.3M in the past 4 days, representing 0.94% of the total supply.

InputOutputHK releases Halo2-Plutus verifier enabling native zero-knowledge proof verification for Plutus smart contracts. Midnight Network partners with Google Cloud, while Q3 2025 metrics show NFT volume up 561.7%, ADA up 41.0% to $0.81, and DeFi TVL up 28.7% to $423.5M.

Grayscale CoinDesk Crypto 5 ETF ($GDLC) tracks Cardano alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP as the five largest and most liquid cryptocurrencies, covering over 90% of the crypto market's capitalization.

Cardano Summit starts on Nov. 12.