JUST IN: Hydra PM Sharan Konerira says "Point of Sales—the Hydra vending machine, demonstrated that instant crypto payments are technically possible. The question now is—is there real emerging demand for this?" #Cardano $ADA

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JUST IN: IOG Cardano Core Product Manager Michael Smolenski says "we demoed a simulation of the Leios voting and certificate primitives, a prototype for studying the effects of Leios traffic on Praos, and an early implementation of some Leios primitives and mini protocols." $ADA

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JUST IN: IOG Cardano Core Product Manager Michael Smolenski says "at this stage of the Leios roadmap, we're implementing various simulations and prototypes to validate and test our design assumptions." $ADA

JUST IN: Hydra PM Sharan Konerira says "we're continuing to ship Hydra security fixes and production hardening, support inter-head communication—which TxPipe is building—we'll be providing support, and developer experience improvements to onboard more developers." #Cardano $ADA

JUST IN: Hydra PM Sharan Konerira says "we're looking at emerging use cases like AI Agents, to see if Hydra can serve as a micropayments layer for Agents to transact with each other. With AI being a very hot topic, this could position #Cardano $ADA as an AI native blockchain."

JUST IN: Hydra PM Sharan Konerira says "gaming is another area we're exploring. Hydra DOOM proved the technical capability, but now we need to validate the market side. Will game studios actually build on #Cardano if you provide this infrastructure?" $ADA