Philip DiSarro, CEO and founding father of Anastasia Labs, who goes by the title “Phil” at X, stated there’s lots of seen work happening in Cardano proper now.
This contains bulletins, bulletins, discussions, and large concepts, however a wholesome ecosystem additionally depends on the low-key work that few individuals have a look at, added the CEO of Anastasia Labs.
Cardano has lots of seen work: bulletins, bulletins, discussions, huge concepts. However a wholesome ecosystem additionally depends on the unglamorous work that nearly nobody sees, the enhancing, the evaluation cycles, the cleanup, the tweaking, and the fixed consideration to element that turns one draft into the subsequent.
— Phil (@phil_uplc) February 14, 2026
This unglamorous work includes enhancing, evaluation cycles, cleanup, tweaking, and fixed consideration to element that turns your draft into one thing your neighborhood can truly construct on. In mild of this, he gave a shoutout to Robert Pair, a Cardano neighborhood member who has been devoted to shifting the CIP course of ahead.
This week Cardano made a number of bulletins. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson revealed at a consensus occasion that the USDCx stablecoin will probably be launched on Cardano by the tip of February. “We now have a fantastic UX that permits you to entry Coinbase or Binance instantly from any pockets and again once more. $USDC” Hoskinson stated.
In a separate announcement, LayerZero, a multi-chain messaging protocol connecting over 160 blockchains with $200 billion in cross-chain quantity, will probably be built-in into Cardano and its ecosystem. That is one other huge step for Cardano interoperability, with the combination enabling the most important cross-chain connectivity growth in Cardano historical past. That is anticipated to pave the best way for stablecoin liquidity, Bitcoin-backed belongings, tokenized real-world belongings, and shared DeFi infrastructure throughout the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Midnight mainnet launch date introduced
Midnight mainnet is predicted to be formally reside by the tip of March, whereas Midnight Metropolis may launch on February twenty sixth.
Improvement work on Ouroboros Leios is ongoing. This may enhance Cardano community capability by 50x. The primary mainnet launch will enhance Cardano’s pace from 10 TPS to 500 TPS, with the power to succeed in 1,000 TPS anticipated to be unveiled within the close to future.
Cardano’s perpetual protocol Strike has launched V2 and Cardano futures have been launched at CME Group.

