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Eligible retail holders rely on market liquidity, while verified institutions can request issuer redemption and stakers absorb losses after protocol reserves. The post Cardano’s DeFi has shrunk by more than half and RealFi is betting credit can revive it appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Its research platform represents aviation fuel benefits as transferable tokens that are retired after a claim, while commercial scale remains unquantified. The post Brazil’s largest energy giant tests Cardano to fix carbon double-counting appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Petrobras developed two Cardano-based applications to track sustainability claims tied to aviation fuel and renewable diesel as part of an ongoing research collaboration. Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras has developed two blockchain applications using Cardano to track sustainability data for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and its Diesel R renewable fuel. According to a Wednesday announcement from the Cardano Foundation, the first application, developed with PUC-Rio’s Ledger Labs, tokenizes environmental attributes associated with SAF into digital tokens designed to prevent the same claim from being used more than once. The application uses a Book-and-Claim model, which allows the environmental benefit to be separated from the physical fuel and assigned to an airline, company or passenger even if the SAF is used elsewhere. Read more

DReps and the committee now decide the narrower 75 ADA proposal; any delegator gain still depends on what pools charge. The post Cardano proposal slashes fees by 55%, but it comes with a cost for small pools appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The official x402 kit now includes Cardano tools for apps and AI agents to pay with ADA and other network tokens, though the facilitator has so far only been tested on pre-production.

The Pogun rejection blocked a 12.29 million ADA withdrawal while Hoskinson says future products will not default to Cardano. The post Charles Hoskinson says Cardano no longer comes first – its treasury vote explains why appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Input Output Group told users to avoid its YouTube channel after it began livestreaming a suspected AI-manipulated Charles Hoskinson video promising to “double your wealth.” Input Output Group has urged users to avoid its YouTube channel, with the channel on Friday livestreaming a suspected AI-manipulated video of Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson promoting a crypto giveaway. The livestream purported to be a town hall for Project Catalyst, a decentralized community innovation fund and grant program. It was live for nearly two hours. Source: YouTube Read more

The exploit drained 2.42 million ADA net, while OADA lacks protocol redemption and faces a thin-pool overhang. The post Cardano’s Splash fix patches the exploit, but leaves 2.4M ADA missing and holders trapped appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Leios can add capacity, but Cardano still needs enough paying demand to close a roughly 150-fold gap. The post Cardano fees covered just 0.7% of staking rewards as transactions fall 72% appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The developers’ conditional 2029 fee benchmark depends on sustained paying usage, leaving delegators, pool operators and users exposed to different adjustments. The post Cardano’s Leios 6x scaling breakthrough comes with a much harder ADA problem appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The pre-boundary vote shows how non-participating SPO stake can weigh against renewal even without an explicit No. The post Cardano clears key voting thresholds for constitutional committee renewal by 0.18% margin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Cardano’s DReps and SPOs are below threshold, while Solana’s validator defaults, staker overrides and conflicting pass rules complicate what low turnout means. The post Cardano and Solana just exposed crypto governance’s biggest weakness appeared first on CryptoSlate.

DRep support is 25.3 points short and SPO support is 39.0 points short before the Sept. 1 expiry. The post Cardano has days to close two huge voting gaps before governance hits a 3-seat bottleneck appeared first on CryptoSlate.

An Aug. 17 snapshot showed 32.46% DRep and 1.95% SPO support, with enactment barred before epoch 653. The post Cardano has two weeks to avoid a governance freeze as 4 committee seats expire appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Grayscale withdrew its registration for the Cardano Trust ETF on Aug. 7, telling the SEC only that it “does not intend to proceed with the planned distribution.” The move was voluntary and came along with parallel registrations for Hedera and Polkadot, within about three minutes of each other that same afternoon. Two days later, ADA […] The post Cardano finally cleared the SEC shortcut for a spot ETF, but its last remaining sponsor quit two days too early appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Crypto’s favorite buy-the-dip strategy failed to make money for Ethereum and Cardano investors who stuck with it since the start of 2022. An investor who placed $100 into Ethereum every month from January 2022 through August 2026 would have contributed $5,600 but ended up with about $4,898, a 12.5% loss, CryptoRank data showed. The same […] The post Bitcoin, XRP, Solana and Tron beat Ethereum and Cardano every month since 2022 on investor buying appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Cardano is showing strength across several metrics, from ADA's 26% weekly gain and whale buying to rising TVL and development.

A major exploit involving a bridge connected to the Cardano ecosystem sent Midnight’s NIGHT token to an all-time low on July 20 after an attacker drained roughly 515 million tokens from infrastructure operated by Wanchain. The tokens were removed from a Cardano-side lock address backing NIGHT bridged to BNB Chain, leaving only a fraction of […] The post 515M NIGHT bridge exploit rocks Cardano but ADA jumps 8% anyway after landmark hard fork appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The upgrade reduces smart contract execution costs while laying the groundwork for Ouroboros Leios, a major scalability upgrade expected later this year. Cardano has activated its van Rossem hard fork as of Saturday, upgrading the Cardano mainnet to version 11, which is expected to lower smart contract execution costs and lay the groundwork for Ouroboros Leios, a major scalability upgrade for the protocol.  Onchain data from Cardanoscan shows the network moved from Protocol Version 10 in epoch 643 to Version 11 in epoch 644. “As well as Plutus improvements and Plutus Cost Model enhancements, this upgrade lays the foundation for the next upgrade, the Dijkstra era hard fork, which will introduce Ouroboros Leios to Cardano,” Input Output wrote in a weekly development report on Friday. Read more

Cardano open interest rises 4% to $421M with a 0.58 long-to-short ratio as whale accumulation hits 2023 highs before the July 18 Van Rossem hard fork. The post Cardano News: Cardano’s Van Rossem Hard Fork Activates Tomorrow, And Whales Are Buying While Traders Go Short appeared first on Cryptonews.