Digest June 24, 2025: • Recap, Cardano Berlin Hackathon 2025 • Animated Flowcharts for Governance Actions • Midnight: Snapshot Complete, Whitepaper Released • Cardano Blueprint - Simplifying Protocol

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Welcome to the Cardano Community Digest!

Published by the Cardano Foundation Community Team every two weeks, this Digest will provide you with news, updates and events about the project and ecosystem!

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In this edition of the Community Digest, we highlight the Cardano Berlin Hackathon and the Eureka Crypto Conference—two major community-driven events during Berlin Blockchain Week. We spotlight Midnight’s newly published Tokenomics & Incentives paper, the rollout of animated governance flowcharts on cardano.org, and the latest from Essential Cardano’s Dev Report. Also featured: Intersect’s development update of June 20, and IOG’s new Cardano Blueprint initiative. All this and more in today’s Digest

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Recap, Berlin Hackathon 2025 - Cardano Community Event

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Set during Berlin Blockchain Week, the Cardano Berlin Hackathon brought together builders, designers, and community voices for two days of coding, collaboration, and real talk. From voice-controlled wallet prototypes to Roundtable Talks on developer tooling, onboarding, and Cardano’s long-term sustainability—one thing is for sure: the focus stayed on what matters: building for real users.

This summary on the Cardano Forum not only captures the spirit of the event, but also includes a recap video—all part of the ongoing Community Engagement activities by the Cardano Foundation Community Team.

Read the full recap on the Forum:

Additionally, during Berlin Blockchain Week, the Eureka Crypto Conference featured speakers from our ecosystem covering governance, chain analysis, Cardano’s layer 2 tech, and many more topics. For an overview of the full program and speakers, visit https://eureka.events/. Photos and videos from the event were captured and (re)shared on Eureka’s X timeline here: https://x.com/Eureka_event.

Governance: Animated Flowcharts for Every Governance Action

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Understanding Cardano governance just got a lot more accessible.

If you’re participating, or just curious, head over to cardano.org/governance and scroll to the bottom of the page. You’ll find a series of animated flowcharts, designed to help you better grasp the governance action lifecycle for Hard Fork Initiation, Motions of No-Confidence, Treasury Withdrawals, and more. These visual guides were created to support your journey. The information provided here is designed to equip you with a solid understanding of the governance processes from A to Z.

Midnight: Snapshot Complete, Tokenomics Now Live

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On June 23, Midnight released their long-awaited Tokenomics & Incentives White Paper, outlining how the project combines privacy, sustainability, and interoperability. It covers the role of the NIGHT token, DUST as a non-transferable resource, multichain support, and a phased, community-first distribution.

For those wondering when the snapshot took place — the Midnight team confirmed in a post on X that it already happened on June 11 at 00:00 UTC.

You can find more details about Midnight, the token distribution phases, which other token holders are eligible, and more in the full white paper: https://www.midnight.gd

Also worth checking out: Cardano Ambassador Peter Bui has just released a helpful video guide that dives deeper into the Midnight tokenomics. The guide walks through everything from tokenomics and eligibility to redemption schedules — plus how SPOs and delegators can earn NIGHT moving forward. Watch the video or read the full transcript here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRheq-apFXw

Essential Cardano: Weekly Development Report

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In the latest Weekly Development report from Essential Cardano, the team shares a bunch of exciting updates. According to the report, Cardano is showing steady growth with over 2,000 projects building and developer activity up 24%. Governance is also picking up, with 1,365 active DReps. Highlights include Flow DeFi’s successful presale, Cardano joining Brave Wallet (beta), and Iagon teaming up with Ford. On the tech side, progress continues on intra-era hard forks, Leios simulation tools, and the newest Mithril release.

Check out the full update here:

Intersect: Development Update June 20

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The recent Intersect Development Update takes a look into major milestones like the successful mainnet demo of Cardano’s treasury smart contract system—laying the groundwork for the upcoming treasury withdrawals. The report also highlights new admin policies, the relaunch of Town Halls and AMAs, and the second cohort of the Developer Advocate Program. Plus, Intersect shares updates on the GovTool, Constitutional Committee elections, and strong engagement across hubs in Sri Lanka, Africa, and Japan.

Full update: https://www.intersectmbo.org/post/intersect-development-update-67

IOG Blog: Cardano Blueprint - Simplifying Protocol Knowledge

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The recent IOG blog introduces the Cardano Blueprint - a fresh community-driven effort, aimed to simplify Cardano’s complex technical knowledge. The goal? To create accessible, implementation-independent documentation that helps developers, builders, and enthusiasts understand the protocol beyond the Haskell-specific code.

This Blueprint supports node diversity, transparency, and security by offering clear specs, diagrams, and test data, all open for community contribution via GitHub.

Read the full blog here:
https://iohk.io/en/blog/understanding-cardano-introducing-the-cardano-blueprint

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:spiral_calendar: Upcoming Community Events

  • 06-24 Intersect MCC Meeting: Join in to stay up to date with Intersect’s MCC progression - link.
  • 06-24 Unified Cardano Student Club: On Cardano Over Coffee: About the Guest: SandboxHack25 is a hackathon organized by the Unified Cardano Student Club Nigeria (UCSCN). It’s a dynamic event where students develop innovative blockchain solutions within the Cardano ecosystem, focusing on real-world problems - link
  • 06-25 DRep Working Group - Budget Approval: Each session will focus on providing up-to-date information about the budget process. Our goal is to create a collaborative environment where DReps can engage in discussions, ask questions, and share perspectives - link
  • 06-25 Damon: On Cardano Over Coffee: About the guest: Charli3 Oracles. You guys know us. We want to speak about our new API service for Cardano - link
  • 06-25 Roundtable Talk:: The purpose of this RTT is to give the community and DReps a chance to meet the candidates and hear, in their own words, what they stand for. Each candidate will receive the same three questions and have up to 7 minutes to respond - link
  • 06-26 Intersect OSC Meeting - link
  • 06-26 Product Committee: On Cardano Over Coffee: About the guest: This is discuss the Product Comm 2030 vision roadmap and to talk about the workshops that have been done along with those that are upcoming - link

For an overview of weekly events, visit the Cardano Calendar

Many thanks and greetings from the Community Team!

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