Teragone Factory

We're honored to share that the Mithril continuity proposal has passed the Cardano Budget 2026 vote with 81% YES support by voting power. A sincere thank you to all the DReps, SPOs and community members who took the time to review the proposal, ask questions, challenge assumptions and engage in constructive discussions throughout the process. For us, this result is not just a vote of confidence in a team or a roadmap. It is a recognition of the importance of infrastructure that helps make Cardano more accessible, resilient and easier to build on. Mithril is powered by the participation of SPOs and exists to serve the broader ecosystem. We remain committed to its continuity, operational excellence, adoption and long-term evolution in close collaboration with the community. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the discussion and helped strengthen the proposal. Now it's time to deliver. 🚀 #Cardano #Mithril #SPO #OpenSource #Governance

Day 1: What is @IOGroup? Who Is Building @Cardano? Meet IOG When people talk about Cardano, they often mention ADA, staking, governance, or decentralization. But have you ever wondered who helped build the technology behind it all? Meet Input Output Global (IOG). IOG is a world-leading blockchain research and engineering company responsible for much of Cardano's design, development, and innovation. Founded by @IOHK_Charles and @JeremyWoo in 2015, IOG combines academic research with engineering to create secure and scalable blockchain solutions. What makes IOG different is its research-first approach. Before building technology, its teams work with scientists and researchers to ensure solutions are peer-reviewed and evidence-based. Some of IOG's major contributions include: 🔹 Developing Cardano's core infrastructure 🔹 Creating the Ouroboros Proof-of-Stake protocol 🔹 Building scalability solutions like Hydra 🔹 Developing products such as Lace Wallet 🔹 Driving innovation through projects like Midnight Think of it this way: 🏗️ If Cardano were a city, IOG would be the team of architects and engineers designing and building the roads, bridges, and infrastructure that keep everything running. This is the first post in my series exploring the organizations behind Cardano. Over the next few days, we'll dive deeper into IOG's history, achievements, leadership, and impact on the blockchain industry. What was the first thing you learned about IOG? Let me know below. 👇 #Cardano #IOG #Blockchain #ADA #CardanoCommunity

☢️ AGENT LUMP STATUS REPORT Mithril signer deployed. Mithril powers fast, trust-minimized syncing across Cardano wallets and light clients. Agent Lump is now contributing signatures to help secure the protocol. Current delegation goal: 🎯 45K / 300K ADA 15% mission completion. Support the operation: 🥩 Stake to LUMP Pool pool1ddhftaa3pv225npllmevq9remkeaf0fhsayx78zhannjv0tm0ds

Cardano’s Mithril protocol is named after Tolkiens legendary metal, literally “grey brilliance” or “glint of mist” in Sindarin. In the books it was mined deep in Moria: featherlight to wear, yet harder than tempered steel, and it never tarnished. The most famous piece was the Mithril shirt that saved Frodo when a spear should have k!lled him. Thats the exact idea behind Cardanos Mithril. It lets light clients verify the blockchain efficiently and securely without downloading the entire chain. Light on resources but cryptographically unbreakable where it matters. For holders this means easier ways to check the network yourself or run lighter setups while keeping full security. Strong protection without the heavy load. Does knowing the Tolkien roots make the purpose of Mithril click more for you?

$ADA The biggest edge in Cardano? Most people only watch the price while the infrastructure upgrades right in front of them. Leios is targeting greater parallelization and efficiency, Hydra is paving the way for a 10x+ better user experience in specific use cases, and Mithril reduces friction in network operation and synchronization. Add Voltaire, Midnight, and Lace and you get an ecosystem where $ADA is building asymmetric upside before the market fully prices it in. Research driven. Community governed. Built for the long term. #Cardano $ADA #CardanoCommunity #Leios #Mithril

Eleven proposals have likely been selected as candidates to proceed to on-chain governance action. Let's wait for the audit results. adatool.net/budget-2026-vo…

The IOR proposal for Cardano Vision 2026 has been ratified with a 74.96% confidence vote! Thank you to all DReps and the wider Cardano community for your support. Also this week: Mithril implemented the SNARK-friendly genesis certificate along with DMQ support, and the Cardano High Assurance team finalized a beta property-based testing tool. Read the full update for more: essentialcardano.io/development-up…

Currently, only 4 out of 69 proposals have a success rate of over 67% 👀 - Pallas, Intersect, Oura, Mithril adatool.net/budget-2026-vo…

@KuphDev @Yabba900 @IOGroup @NicolasC3rny @planetmaaz Here’s just one example. I’m currently downloading the Daedalus full-node wallet on my new mini-PC. It’s been going on for a full 1 hour and 33 minutes, and I’m already at 44%. And that’s thanks to Mithril. I’ll connect this full node to Eternal and send the transaction directly

As part of our 2026 proposal: Different Cardano node implementations need to be able to read and share the same ledger state. We are now integrating that standardised format with Mithril, so alternative nodes like Amaru can bootstrap directly from a verified snapshot.

Mithril fast sync is the part people underestimate: while other chains need everyone to babysit full nodes, Cardano lets light clients verify trustlessly and move on. Less friction, more decentralization. That’s the standard.

Milestone: the Cardano → Midnight private onboarding path is proven end-to-end on Preprod. Lock ADA on Cardano → strict Mithril certification → shielded credit on Midnight → Preprod indexer confirmation → receipt ready. The real certified path — validated, not promised. No shortcuts. This is the foundation for private finance workflows on Midnight. Next: caps, refunds, pause controls, and review/audit before we scale. Full writeup incoming. Built carefully, on purpose.

Quick quality of life update for Dingo operators. An epoch boundary stall condition was fixed and stake snapshot recalculation is skipped when not necessary after a Mithril sync. We've also updated the example explorer application using our mini-Blockfrost API. 👀

You may have started seeing some posts from these guys. We're the new maintainers of the daedalus wallet and 8.0.0 is our first release which adds mithril support for fast bootstrap. If you are an spo and still not running a mithril signer, it is time to get involved. Mithril is critical infrastructure as cardano integrates more outside of its pond. It's the same team as dripdropz plus some members, minus some others. Doxed team is below.

@cryptstitution intersect.ekklesia.vote/ballots/6a1512…

Registered Mithril Signers in Epoch 636 Your SPO on the list? 👀 hephy.io/mithril #Stake2Signers

Looking forward to this. I'm a daily Mithril user. x.com/i/spaces/1qxvv…

@HephyPool @cryptstitution @IOGroup Thank you for sharing these resources @HephyPool 🙏

I will be unable to attend the beginning of this Space due to a clash but will post some useful links here: Official Docs: mithril.network Mithril Explorer: mithril.network/explorer Mithril API: mithril.network/doc/aggregator… Mithril Insights: datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/… Find a Mithril SPO: hephy.io/mithril Mithril References: hephy.io/why-mithril

This Monday - I’m talking Mithril with @TeragoneFactory. After working w/@IOGroup on core Mithril, popular in beta and prod-ready as of 1.0.0, Teragone is leading a proposal to extend Mithril as a seamless part of the Cardano experience 🧵 x.com/i/spaces/1qxvv…

Mithril, the unsung hero for all SPOs dapps and node operators 💪