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Proposals for Cardano’s future

These proposals define implementation pathways for leveraging Cardano’s architecture to improve developer experience, infrastructure efficiency, and economic activity.

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The initiatives

Each proposal addresses a specific challenge facing the ecosystem and outlines a program designed to address it.

Developer Experience

A six-month program to streamline Cardano’s developer tooling, documentation, and onboarding, targeting a 30%+ improvement in developer growth rate.

This initiative is led by Robertino Martinez at Input Output (IO).
Cardano Upgrades

Three platform-level enhancements that expand Cardano's economic models and remove onboarding friction: account address upgrades, multi-asset treasury, and Babel Fees.

This initiative is led by Michael Smolenski and Alexey Kuleshevich at Input Output Group. IO is collaborating with Ensurable Systems.
Consensus

Delivering sustainable throughput capacity at the consensus layer. Ships Leios.

This initiative is led by Carlos Lopez De Lara and Sebastian Nagel at Input Output (IO).
L2 Scalability

Delivering production-ready L2 infrastructure through Hydra production hardening, Midgard mainnet launch, and shared L2-agnostic primitives, in partnership with Input Output and Midgard Labs.

This initiative is jointly led by Sharan Konerira at Input Output Group and Midgard Labs.
Cardano High Assurance

Delivering automated formal verification and a unified developer toolkit for secure, verifiable smart contract development on Cardano.

This initiative is led by Stefano Leone and Romain Soulat at Input Output, working alongside a consortium of ecosystem collaborators: Lantr, Harmonic Labs, SAIB, Midgard Labs, No.Witness Labs, and TxPipe.
Cardano Maintenance

Core platform maintenance, support, and operational infrastructure for the Cardano network.

This initiative is led by Michael Karg at Input Output Group, coordinated through Intersect.
Plutus

Making Cardano's smart-contract platform easier to build on, cheaper to run, and more rigorously verified. Delivered as a co-venture between Input Output and VacuumLabs.

This initiative is led by Ziyang Liu at Input Output Group, delivered as a co-venture with VacuumLabs.
Blockfrost

Decentralized data infrastructure that scales with Cardano.

This initiative is delivered by the Blockfrost team.
Pogun

The end-to-end Bitcoin DeFi solution for Cardano.

Pogun is built by Omer Husain and the team behind Cardinal, IO's open-source Bitcoin bridge specification.