In terms of technological breakthroughs, the Cardano development team deployed the smart contract optimizer v2.1 today, reducing the execution cost of Plutus scripts by 37% and lowering the median Gas fee for DApp users to 0.18 (a 38% decrease from 0.29 last month). According to the IOHK performance test report, the new version has achieved a TPS peak of 1,100 by compressing the transaction data volume (from an average of 2.3KB per transaction to 1.5KB), and at the same time, the node synchronization time has been shortened to 8 seconds (standard deviation ±1.1 seconds). Key upgrades include improvements in memory management algorithms, a 45% reduction in the memory load of smart contract operation, and an increase in fault tolerance to 99.95% when handling complex DeFi interactions. The development of this update took five months, with a budget of $3.5 million. Automation upgrades have been completed at 10,284 activity nodes (coverage rate 98.7%).
In terms of ecological expansion, decentralized exchange WingRiders announced the integration of stablecoin protocol DjedX, driving its TVL to soar by 42% in a single week to 86million and the average daily transaction volume to exceed 72,000 (with a growth rate of 230,315 million and an anchoring deviation controlled within ±0.3%).
Significant progress has been made in regulatory cooperation. The Cardano Foundation disclosed today that it has reached a compliance framework agreement with the Dubai Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) to provide AML-compliant staking services to institutional clients in the Middle East. This cooperation requires the node operator to pass the ISO 27001 security certification (with a current compliance rate of 92%) and implement a transaction monitoring system (false alarm rate <1.5%). According to the terms of the agreement, the custody products for qualified investors need to set a minimum entry requirement of 50,000, with an annualized return of 4.8300 million institutional capital inflows (predicted by Bloomberg Industry Research model).
Market response and on-chain activities: Today, the ADA price broke through 0.61 (with a 24-hour increase of 7.3450 million, among which call options accounted for 68% (strike price in the range of 0.65-0.70). Whale monitoring shows that the frequency of single transfers exceeding 1 million reached 4.3 per hour (an increase of 220% compared to the previous day), and the number of active addresses on the chain rose to 149,287 (a 30-day high). In the latest cardano news today, Santiment data revealed that the social volume growth index soared to 9.2 (base value 1.0), and the development activity index continued to lead – the average daily submission frequency on GitHub was 67 times (45 times on Ethereum), and the core code update density reached 1.2 optimizations per thousand lines. Liquidity mining protocol Minswap has launched a new incentive pool, with a peak APY of 98% and a daily increase of $21 million in locked value.