Nine years ago today, Cardano minted its first block. A global community has been building this blockchain ever since. Some are in this video, and many more are reading this. This celebration is yours. Happy 9th birthday, Cardano.

Five tools maintained by @IntersectMBO are new in Builder Tools: cardano-api, cardano-rpc, cardano-wasm, cardano-sieve and cardano-testnet. They include a gRPC server built into cardano-node and a subset of cardano-api compiled to WebAssembly. developers.cardano.org/tools

Dev Office Hours, this session: the Hydra team on use cases, running a head, Q&A. What matters if you build on it: fees configurable down to zero inside a head, unanimous consensus, L1 at the edges. Check the calendar for new sessions: addevent.com/calendar/TG8072…

Currently 21 of the 103 apps listed on cardano.org have transaction tracking switched on. Once it is enabled, an app appears on the leaderboard. Tracking is open to all projects building on Cardano. cardano.org/apps/leaderboard…

Introducing the Cardano Research Exchange #1 The Cardano Research Exchange is a series of live, interactive sessions that brings research happening across the Cardano ecosystem into the spotlight. The aim is to make ongoing research more visible, give researchers a platform to share their work, and create opportunities for the community to contribute feedback and help shape what gets explored next. The series welcomes research initiatives from across the ecosystem, including other research teams. Researchers can share ongoing work, discuss their findings, and gather input from the community, while participants get a better understanding of the research taking place across Cardano and the opportunity to contribute their own perspectives. In this first episode, led by @manv_sc and Juan Ignacio Beccuti Vázquez, we take a high-level look at the @Cardano_CF's research initiatives. This session serves as part 1 of a 3-part series, with the following two sessions taking a closer look at research related to "The Effect of Parameter Changes on SPO and Delegator Incentives." Topics covered in Episode #1: 00:01 - Introduction to the Cardano Research Exchange 03:57 - Core Research Focus Areas 05:54 - Overview of Research Streams & Publications 08:35 - Ongoing Research Initiatives 13:22 - Upcoming Sessions: Parameter Changes, Incentives & Monetary Policy

understanding cardano governance has just got a lot easier! check out the new interactive page that explains how cardano's governance model works, from the three bodies, governance action types and the treasury. bookmark it and share it with anyone thinking of submitting a treasury withdrawal. cardano.org/governance/how-i…

Project Catalyst’s latest pilot selected 12 projects from 117 applications, with almost 2M ADA in funding. Linda (@Cryptofly777) breaks down what they’re building, from stablecoin payments and DeFi to tokenized assets and digital identities, plus the new funding model that ties payouts to real-world adoption. ⤵️ nitter.siddz.com/Cryptofly777/status/21…

🚀 NEW!! Block Analytics: powerful, all in one place. cardanoscan.io/block/1405605…

🥇 Welcome Cardano as Gold Sponsor of TUM Blockchain Conference 26, and as a sponsor of our Blockchain & AI Hackathon. Cardano is a proof of stake blockchain whose Ouroboros consensus came out of peer reviewed academic research, stewarded by @Cardano, an independent nonprofit foundation in Switzerland. ⚡ The 32 hour Hackathon runs Oct 30 to 31, open to all levels, with €6,000 in prize money on the table. Thank you so much for backing this year's edition. It really means a lot to us. 📍 Oct 29 to 31, House of Communication, Munich 🎟 Tickets: conference26.tum-blockchain.…

Let Gio know what you think or do different regarding cardano-dev-skills. 👇

New week, new sessions. Here’s what’s happening across the Cardano ecosystem this week 👇 📅 Mon, Oct 19 • 13:00 UTC - Cardano Foundation Research Exchange #1: Introduction to CF Research (@DenicioBernier, @manv_sc) 📅 Tue, Oct 20 • 19:00 UTC - Cardano First Steps in North-Kivu, pour les francophones (Nyiragongo Cardano Hub @BaudouinMuv) 📅 Thu, Oct 22 • 13:30 UTC - DB-Sync TWG Open Session (@IntersectMBO) Want to find more events? Head over to the Luma pages: - luma.com/intersect - luma.com/CardanoEvents

ICYMI: Simplifying transaction management, declarative APIs, and modular indexing for Java developers on Cardano. Satya Ranjan (@satran004) walks through the Java tooling stack in this Developers Office Hour session: piped.video/watch?v=Fk_I_IXa…