JUST IN: IOG Cardano Core Product Manager Michael Smolenski says "Leios is the #Cardano initiative to deliver a 50x increase in the throughput and capacity of the network." $ADA

JUST IN: IOG Cardano Core PM Michael Smolenski provides update on Nested Transactions to unlock Babel Fees, says "in this delivery cycle, all the preparation work has been done, technical debt resolved, and the #Cardano Improvement Proposal has finished its last review." $ADA

JUST IN: IOG Cardano Core PM Michael Smolenski says "Babel Fees is a new mechanism that will allow users to pay #Cardano transaction fees in another native asset other than $ADA. This will remove a significant friction point in UX—especially during the onboarding phase of apps."

JUST IN: IOG Cardano Core PM Michael Smolenski says "Nested Transactions is an update to the #Cardano ledger, to provide a new transaction type that will form the base layer that will eventually permit Babel Fees and other advanced capabilities." $ADA

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UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "2026 is a return to first principles, a return to retail, and we showed that with the launch of $NIGHT, and we're going to continue showing that with Cardano and Midnight, and Bitcoin DeFi. We're all going to work together."

UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Spend time with people in reality—friends, family, even if it's yourself. We all need to calm down. Have some more empathy, some more love in your heart, some more compassion."

UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "the advice has to be a return to 1st principles. No Government, large company, or large investor is coming to save us. We as crypto, have to decide whether we want to make a compelling case to bring people up or down." $NIGHT

UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson explains why #Cardano $ADA isn't as fast as Solana. "It's hard to be as decentralized and have all the security we have. It's easy to be as fast—it's hard to do that and have 50% Byzantine resistance, Nakamoto-style recovery, and full decentralization."