Recent achievements in the Cardano ecosystem demonstrate positive dynamics across a range of key metrics as well as the introduction of new features and updates.
Growth of Delegated Wallets and Tokens
The Cardano ecosystem has reached 1.33 million delegated wallets, marking a weekly increase of 0.04%. The total number of native tokens has grown to 10.83 million, alongside 216,879 token policies. On-chain activity has also seen a rise: Plutus scripts increased to 138,365, with 7,213 of those written in Aiken. Total transactions climbed to 110.43 million, up 0.20% week-over-week.
Product Updates and Governance Milestones
Recent ecosystem highlights include the launch of a USDC/USDM trading pair by Norwegian exchange NBX and a governance UI update from Yoroi Wallet based on user feedback. Flow DeFi’s lending protocol entered public testnet, while voting for the constitutional committee election opened and will close on July 2. The Cardano Foundation also introduced 'Originate,' a traceability tool to authenticate assets through open-source methods.
Infrastructure and Smart Contracts Improvements
Cardano’s SRE team upgraded infrastructure to Nix packages 25.05 and Nix 2.29.1, preparing for the upcoming release of cardano-node v.10.6.0. This version will feature a default tracing system for improved monitoring. Also, the Plutus Core team added support for boolean and integer case analysis. Plinth’s updates now enable evaluation with the CEK machine and enhance data conversion using product-type lists.
Overall, Cardano continues to demonstrate consistent growth and development, indicating positive dynamics and active work towards enhancing the ecosystem's functionality.
