You may be aware that Cardano experienced a partition on the Mainnet at approximately 08:00UTC on November 21st 2025 which resulted in a reduction in blocks produced and slower transaction processing for around 12 hours while the issue was addressed. The issue was caused by a crypto library dependency that allowed an invalid transaction to…
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Cloudflare outage
A quick update on the recent Cloudflare outage which affected a large number of sites including this one. We use Cloudflare to help protect our web based infrastructure against a range of security threats. That includes this web site and some API services. It does not include any Cardano blockchain services which are used to…
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ADV4 pledge increase
A quick update to let you know that we have increased the ADV4 pledge to ₳250k in line with the other stake pools. This pool has been under development for some time, and the increase in delegators and the value staked has brought a need to ensure that it enjoys the same class leading returns…
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Cardano Ecosystem Budget
We have voted in favour of the governance action: “Cardano Blockchain Ecosystem Budget – 275M ada Administered by Intersect“: https://gov.tools/governance_actions/e14de8d9dc4f4ddf3fe9250a8a926e20f10e99b86bd0610b77d7a054981591ee#0 The period during which this Budget Info Action remains in effect will begin at the close of its voting period and continue for 73 epochs (52 weeks). This budget is an aggregate allocation and following…
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Midnight Update
If you have been following the blog you will know that we are testing Midnight, and have been running a node on the test network. So far the experience has been solid on Testnet-02, with some significant stability and performance improvements from the first Testnet, and with more planned for an upcoming release in a…