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In this edition of the Community Digest, we highlight
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Circle and Pentad Integrate USDCx on Cardano: According to recent updates, Circle and the Cardano Pentad signed an agreement to integrate USDCx on Cardano, marking another deliverable under the Cardano Critical Infrastructure Budget.
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CGOV by Mesh and SIDAN Lab: As announced by the Mesh team, CGOV launches as an open-source platform for exploring and participating in Cardano on-chain governance.
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NuLuna Roundtable, Barcelona: This Roundtable explored ownership, community, and sustainable creator careers on Cardano, featuring artists and builders from the ecosystem.
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Upcoming SPO Table Talk on Plutus Memory Units: This upcoming Roundtable will focus on the Governance Action to increase transaction and block memory limits, outlining implications for developers and SPOs.
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Content Creators Spotlight: Cardano Over Coffee and Linda & Josh shared discussions on USDCx, governance discourse, and broader ecosystem topics.
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Updates from Intersect MBO: Intersect MBO shared the launch of its State of Developer Experience Survey for 2026 and updates on Cardano administration and delivery assurance.
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Updates from the Cardano Foundation: The Foundation reported progress on governance delegation milestones and released a new Let’s Talk Cardano episode focused on on-chain data and financial disclosures.
All this and more in today’s Digest.
Circle and Pentad to Integrate USDC on Cardano
On January 30th, 2026, Charles Hoskinson shared an update announcing that the Cardano Pentad and Circle had signed an integration agreement for integrating USDCx on Cardano.
This marks of course another concrete deliverable under Cardano’s Critical Infrastructure Budget proposal, that was approved by the community and funded through Cardano’s treasury via on-chain governance.
Zooming out a bit, this Circle integration does not stand in isolation. Since December 2025, three critical integrations have been announced, each addressing a different layer of ecosystem infrastructure and collectively strengthening Cardano’s position even further as a platform real-world use
For more information about this integration, follow the discussion here on the Cardano sub-Reddit.
Introducing CGOV by Mesh and SIDAN Lab
Today, February 2nd, 2026, the Mesh team announced CGOV, “a full fletched open-source governance platform for everything Cardano Onchain Governance.” The Platform was developed by Mesh and SIDAN Lab with a clear goal of making it easy for anyone to browse governance actions, access rich context, and explore voter rationales through a clean, customizable UI.
Version 1, live now, includes timelines, vote distributions, and visualizations of voting power. Version 2, coming by the end of February, will add wallet connectivity for voting and submitting proposals, plus advanced dashboards and analytics.
All code is open source under Apache 2.0. Feedback and ideas are welcome.
Web: https://app.cgov.io/
GitHub: NOMOS · GitHub
Roundtable NuLuna, Barcelona: Ownership, Community, and Career on the Cardano Blockchain
During the NuLuna Event in Barcelona on October 18, 2025, host Josefine Birkigt (Cardano Foundation) led our fourth in-person Cardano Roundtable Talk, bringing together artists, musicians, and creators to explore Cardano adoption through art, creativity, and creator-led communities.
Under the theme “Celebrating those who dare to create differently,” the discussion focused on real pathways for creators to build, grow, and earn on-chain. Key topics included:
- What “true ownership” looks like for creators on-chain (and its limits)
- How community dynamics change when creators coordinate directly with supporters
- Sustainable creator business models already in use on Cardano
Speakers:
Jika Clay — Illustrator & Concept Artist, Clay Nation
Jessica — Community Lead, NEWM
FloCrypto — Co-founder, projectNEWM
Upcoming SPO Table Talk: Understanding GA – Updates to Plutus Memory Unit Limits
During this Roundtable we’ll dive into the Governance Action “Increase Transaction and Block Memory Units (Part 1 of 2)”, designed to give DApp developers more flexibility in building and executing Plutus scripts. We’ll explore exactly what’s changing with per-transaction and per-block memory limits, why a staged approach (part 1 of 2) is necessary, and how these updates translate into practical improvements for developers and users.
The discussion will also cover potential trade-offs and what this means for SPOs in terms of node performance and voting under PARAM-03a. The experts will provide a detailed understanding of why SPO participation is crucial, and the effects of a low SPO turn.
Experts joining the Table:
- Markus Gufler, Technical Community Lead, Cardano Foundation
- Pi Lanningham, Chief Technology Officer, SundaeSwap Labs
- Dominic Wallis, Senior Software Engineer, Cardano Foundation
- Micah Kendall, Founder, Butane Protocol
-Date: February 3rd, 2026
-The session will start at 20:00 CET
-cross-streamed to YouTube and X
-Block the event in your agenda using the following link:
https://www.addevent.com/event/fq17080nm7yk
Cardanians: Weekly Ecosystem Updates
In the latest Cardanians Ecosystem Newsletter (#108), several notable developments across the Cardano ecosystem stood out. FluidTokens has entered the final phase of its Bitcoin–Cardano bridge, a milestone that could unlock Bitcoin liquidity for Cardano DeFi and expand cross-chain use cases on the network.
The newsletter also highlights Finest’s launch of tokenized gold on Cardano. Through fGOLD, users can mint or trade tokens representing one gram of physical gold, with the option to redeem tokens for real, underlying gold.
Rounding out the update, Cardanians points to growing activity around Bitcoin interoperability and asset-backed tokens, a movement that, according to them, is signaling continued progress in bringing external liquidity and real-world value onto Cardano.
For this and more, view here the X thread.
Spotlight on Cardano Content Creators
This week, we’re highlighting some of Cardano’s content creators, community members who help keep the ecosystem informed and engaged. Whether through tutorials, blogs, or thought-provoking discussions, they contribute valuable context and keep the conversation moving. Here are a few creators making an impact:
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Cardano Over Coffee
On January 30th, 2026, one of Cardano’s longest-running X Space platforms, Cardano Over Coffee, hosted an episode focused on the USDCx integration with Circle, helping the community better understand what USDCx actually is. The discussion also covered a range of broader Cardano governance topics and featured speakers including Blockjock, Maureen, EPOCH, and Jenny Brito, among others. Listen here -
Linda & Josh
Community Content Creators Linda and Josh recently held a live Twitter Space. During the episode, they discussed Cardano influencers pushing back against FUD and criticism, particularly claims of ignored community feedback, heavy EMURGO/large DRep influence in final tweaks, amateurish drafting, lack of guardrails on treasury risks/bundling, and AI use concerns, and many more topics. Watch here*
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These creators are just a snapshot of the many creators within our ecosystem. Following them is a great way to stay updated on tutorials, interviews, and discussions that help deepen your understanding of Cardano and its potential.
Community Learning & Developer Engagement
Developer Office Hours & Cardano Seminars
Participation in the Cardano Developer Office Hours continues to grow, with developers actively tuning in to learn, share knowledge, and interact live with participants. Recent sessions featured:
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uplc.link – In this Cardano Developers Office Hour, Giovanni Gargiulo introduces uplc.link, a proposal focused on bringing verifiable, transparent smart contracts to Cardano. The session explores why smart contract verification matters, how uplc.link works under the hood, and what it could unlock for developer tooling moving forward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh8Y304u9t0
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Cardano Seminar: Flux Point Studios - Proof-of-Inference: Making AI Verifiable on Cardano – In this Cardano Seminar, Nathaniel Minton from Flux Point Studios introduces Proof of Inference (PoI), a framework for making AI inference verifiable and auditable on Cardano. Nathaniel explores a growing challenge in enterprise and regulated environments: the lack of standard ways to prove what an AI system actually did, which model was used, what inputs were provided, and how a specific output was produced. PoI addresses this gap by anchoring cryptographic AI receipts on Cardano, transforming opaque AI inference into an auditable and tamper-evident record. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P51yKtRpj60
These sessions are just a few examples of the many ongoing ecosystem engagement efforts across Cardano. To stay updated and not miss upcoming episodes, be sure to subscribe to the channel.
Updates from the Intersect MBO
Intersect MBO’s Developer Advocate team recently launched the ‘State of Developer Experience Survey for 2026’. The survey is meant to gather unique perspectives and fresh insights to support the ever-expanding developer ecosystem in Cardano. SPOs and infrastructure contributors are encouraged to participate. Take the survey
Furthermore, In the recent Intersect MBO weekly development update, Intersect covers six months of progress as Cardano’s Administrator, managing ₳345M while improving delivery assurance, reporting, and on-chain transparency. Among other topics, the update highlights the Net Change Limit for 2026–27, now live on-chain with DReps encouraged to vote, early progress on the Cardano hard fork with Pre-Release and candidate nodes, new tooling including a public API for administration data, a Bitergia dashboard for node development, usability testing, and ongoing community engagement initiatives - among other topics. Read here the full weekly development update.
Updates from the Cardano Foundation
Cardano Foundation Roadmap: Governance Update
In recent updates, the Cardano Foundation shared progress across governance and ecosystem accountability. Reaching the first milestone of its governance roadmap, the Foundation expanded its delegation to community DReps, allocating an additional 220 million ada to representatives focused on Adoption and Operations. This brings total community delegation to 360 million ada, reinforcing the Foundation’s commitment to distributing voting power and strengthening decentralized decision-making. Alongside this, the Foundation updated its self-delegation approach to ensure all remaining assets actively participate in governance, while still resulting in a net reduction of its overall voting power. For the full report, including an overview of the selected DRep, read here.
Lets Talk Cardano
The Foundation also released a new episode of Let’s Talk Cardano, featuring Cleopatra Martins, Finance Product Lead, discussing the thinking behind Reeve and the role of on-chain data in enabling trustworthy financial disclosures at scale. The conversation explores how immutable data reshapes audits, balances transparency with privacy, and points toward future reporting standards for enterprises, governments, and NGOs.
Watch the episode on YouTube or listen on Spotify.
Cardano Reddit Top 6 Most Engaged Topics
Below are the most engaging topics on Reddit
- USDC Officially Coming to Cardano | Charles Hoskinson Announces - big pey
- What happened to cardano?
- Circle and Pentad - Charles Hoskinson
- USDCx on Cardano explained
- USDCx coming to Cardano: What privacy-enabled stablecoins mean for the ecosystem
- One year of on-chain governance on Cardano: a retrospective
Cardano Forum Top 7 Referred Topics
Topics that have received the most clicks from external sources. (last 10 Days)
- Project Catalyst: Why it’s not a “Loss of funds,” but one of Cardano network’s growth engines?
- Beyond Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) Governance Experience Insights Workshops
- Meek Owen’s intro
- Eastern Cardano Council statement to the Cardano Community
- Catalyst Africa Townhall — Community, Governance & Cardano in Action
- RECAP: The 1st French-Language Catalyst Africa Townhall in Goma, DR Congo
- Update Mithril Signer to 0.3.7
Upcoming Community Events
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02-03 SPO Roundtable Talk: Hosted by @Cardano - Join Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026, for an SPO Table Talk focused on the Governance Action to increase transaction and block memory units (Part 1 of 2), exploring what’s changing, why a staged approach is needed, and what it means for Plutus developers, SPOs, and on-chain governance under PARAM-03a. - Add to your Calendar Here
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02-03 Intersect Product Committee (IPC) call: Hosted by Lorenzo - This is the product committee working session. Anyone is welcome to join and observe. In the last 30 mins the secretary will allow interactions with the observers - Register Here
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02-05 Digital Asset Forum, London, The Digital Assets Forum is an exclusive event for institutional professionals. Limited to 2000 attendees. Focused on digital assets and alternative investments. - More Details Here
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02-09 Consensus Hong Kong: Hosted by CoinDesk - Consensus Hong Kong 2026 is a premier, large-scale conference organized by CoinDesk, scheduled for February 9-12, 2026, at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. It serves as a major hub for the global blockchain, Web3, AI, and digital asset industries, specifically aiming to bridge Eastern and Western markets to discuss institutional adoption, regulation, and emerging technologies. - For More Information, and to Register
For more weekly events, visit Cardano Events
Many thanks and greetings from the Community Team!