There will only ever be 45 billion cardano:native, Just like Bitcoin, Cardano is max capped.

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For almost a year, I have been building a simpler and more dependable way for applications to respond to activity on Cardano. Today, I am incredibly proud to release OgmiosDotnet.BlockchainEvents v1.0.0. BlockchainEvents is an open source transaction filtering, pub sub and event delivery layer for Cardano. It connects to Ogmios, evaluates every transaction against completely customisable rules, and emits only the activity an application has chosen to receive as standard CloudEvents. The rule engine can be shaped around almost any requirement. An application or applications can listen for activity involving a particular address, asset, policy, smart contract, governance action, treasury withdrawal, metadata value or DEX transaction. Builders can also create entirely new rules around their own domain logic. A project can operate one BlockchainEvents instance and allow many different applications to subscribe to the specific Cardano events they care about. A wallet could subscribe to address activity. A governance platform could subscribe to proposals and votes. A DEX service could subscribe to swaps involving selected assets or contracts. The blockchain connection, transaction processing and event infrastructure are shared, while each application receives its own relevant stream of events. This can remove considerable duplication across a project, reduce infrastructure costs and give development teams one dependable event layer to build around. Consumers can be as simple as an HTTP endpoint. When a transaction satisfies a rule, BlockchainEvents transforms it into a CloudEvent and automatically posts it to the subscribed application. Events can also be consumed through gRPC and server sent events. This allows applications to use Cardano data exposed through Ogmios without installing an Ogmios SDK, tracking a particular SDK version, maintaining their own WebSocket connection or implementing the chain sync protocol themselves. Delivery is backed by a durable queue. When a consumer becomes unavailable, its events remain waiting. Once the application returns, delivery resumes automatically. Applications can restart, deploy or experience a temporary outage without immediately losing the Cardano activity produced while they were offline. It is also extremely fast. During a full local Docker stress test, the pipeline processed more than 1,100 transactions per second through the rule engine, CloudEvents transformation, pub sub and durable queue, with approximately one millisecond p99 processing latency and zero failed emissions. The entire stack can be deployed through Docker across cloud providers, infrastructure providers and self hosted environments, while the underlying queue and delivery architecture remains abstracted from the applications using it. This project was funded through Catalyst Fund 14 after receiving 197 million ADA in yes votes across 420 votes cast. I am deeply grateful to everybody who voted for the proposal, followed the development, tested the releases, shared feedback or supported both me and this project over the past year. A great deal of work has gone into reaching this point, and I am genuinely excited to see what Cardano builders create with it. Further technical details, reliability results and the Minswap implementation are included below. Repository: github.com/ItsDaveB/OgmiosDo… Release: github.com/ItsDaveB/OgmiosDo… The possibilities from here are endless, this brings industry standard event driven architecture right to Cardano.

How much has your DRep actually committed to spend? DAVEGov lets you see it directly. Connect your wallet or search any DRep to view their committed spend across the current budget cycle and prior periods. You can also inspect how they behave, their mission. Voting patterns, participation, relative rank, and overall activity are all visible in one place. This gives a clearer picture of intent, consistency, and fiscal approach over time. If governance is about accountability, this is where it starts, enjoy! governance.cardano-visualisa…

There is a clear overlap between Midgard and work that has already received funding, and in my view that needs addressing head on. Hey @sharan_konerira, from what I can see so far, the Midgard scope overlaps with prior allocations from both Catalyst and treasury. Catalyst covered 500k ADA, with progress only shown up to January 2026 and sitting at around 60 percent. On top of that, treasury withdrawals from last year total 2.162 million ADA. Looking at this practically, I am struggling to see output that lines up with that level of funding. I have not come across a working end to end demonstration that shows the system running in anything close to a real environment. The Intersect milestone tracker also shows the work running more than four milestones behind, with only the first milestone having actually drawn funds. There are also signals from the repo itself. Activity has declined sharply, roughly a two thirds drop from its early 2025 peak, and more than halved compared to the late 2025 window. There are still commits in the last couple of weeks, so it is not inactive, but the development pace is now at its lowest point in the past 16 months. At this stage I took some time to go through the code in the Midgard repo in detail and compare it against the milestones submitted to Intersect on the previous withdrawals. From my own assessment, I do not believe the current state is sufficient to justify sign off, which might be why the funds have never been claimed and the Milestone's are still not closed. There is clearly engineering effort in place, but I cannot see any milestone that is complete, integrated end to end, tested, and deployable. The node is still not wired to the real contracts, fraud proof logic is actively being refactored, and there are open issues raised by the team themselves that point to fund locking and payout edge cases. The SDK and offchain components are still sitting in preliminary states, and there is no clear release process, testnet deployment, or CI pipeline that would give confidence in stability. There are also some basic signals I would expect to see by this stage that are missing. No tagged releases, no public testnet, limited automated testing, and a growing number of open branches, open issues and PRs that have not been closed out (20 at this time). Combined with the continued slowdown in repo activity, it paints a picture of work in progress rather than something nearing completion or even in my opinion ready for us to commit more funds too. To me, that creates a gap between what has been paid out and what can be verified. Over 2.66 million ADA has already been allocated across Catalyst and treasury withdrawals, and I do not yet see delivery that matches that level of spend. On a more practical note, I also offered to help by posting updates and keeping the community informed. Phil said he would reach out, but that never happened, which was disappoint. That does affect my confidence in the delivery of this project. Communication is part of delivery, and right now my trust in the progress is increasingly reducing. I would also welcome a formal statement on the above to clear this up, not just for me but for other DReps and delegates who are asking the same questions. This is based on what I have observed so far, so if I have missed something, I am open to being corrected or pointed in the right direction. I find it difficult to support further funding decisions without clarity on what has already been delivered. I will review the new proposal on its own merits, but this context around prior funding and delivery needs to be clearly understood first.

Breaking News Cardano (ADA) has now been formally detailed by the SEC as a digital commodity, not a security today. It is written directly into the Commission’s latest interpretive release. (Released Today) A digital commodity is an asset that derives its value from the programmatic operation of a functional crypto system, not from the expectation of profits driven by the efforts of others. ADA is listed alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum under that classification.

Here is a compiled thread of some of the projects currently building on Cardano as of March 2026. I am fully aware I will have missed some, so feel free to add them into the thread. I will try to do this more regularly as a way to showcase what is actually being built across the ecosystem. The market recently has been rough, and governance debates have taken their toll on sentiment and all of our energy levels. But underneath that, builders continue building on Cardano So I wanted to start Sunday with a simple reminder of the utility and cool projects emerging across Cardano.