Below is a well-deserved Q3 update highlighting ecosystem tooling and solutions across July, August, and September.

The past three months have been packed with releases, integrations, and upgrades that continue to strengthen Cardano’s developer tooling and infrastructure. With more than 240 pull requests merged across the Foundation’s Java ecosystem, it’s been a quarter of consistent growth, performance improvements, and developer-first innovation. Check out the highlights below to see what’s been delivered.

In this interview, Navjit Dhaliwal, founder and CEO of IAGON, explains how the platform provides decentralized storage and computing solutions that put data control back in the hands of users. Navjit shares that IAGON was initially built on Ethereum, but due to high gas fees, scalability issues, and security concerns, he chose Cardano for its research-driven approach, low costs, and strong decentralization. He highlights real-world applications with enterprises such as Hamburg Volksbank and the U.S. legal firm CloudCourt, showing how data sovereignty and secure storage make a tangible difference. Using clear analogies, he illustrates how decentralized storage turns a single vulnerable “lake” into many protected “frozen lakes” and how decentralized computing turns idle machines into a global supercomputer. Curious to see how IAGON is reshaping data management? Let’s dive in!

In this session of the Cardano Developer Office Hours, Satya Ranjan, Lead Blockchain Architect at the Cardano Foundation, presents Yaci Store, a pluggable indexing solution for Cardano. The talk covers out-of-the-box indexers, feature toggling, plugins for customization, and an API overview for easy querying. Satya highlights how Yaci Store simplifies indexing for Java and non-Java developers alike, with integration possibilities that go beyond Java.

In this session of the Cardano Developer Office Hours, Thomas Kammerlocher, Senior Full Stack Developer, and Marco Russo, Backend Development Lead at the Cardano Foundation, present Reeve, a new solution for financial reporting and transparency. They cover how Reeve simplifies reporting, supports verifiable and tamper-proof data, and builds trust across ecosystems. A live walkthrough demonstrates current features, how to run it, and future roadmap directions.

Below is a well-deserved Q2 update highlighting ecosystem tooling and solutions across April, May, and June.

The past three months have been all about tightening up infrastructure, enhancing developer tools, and shipping valuable updates to support the Cardano ecosystem. With over 90 pull requests merged and 60+ issues closed in June alone, it’s been a highly productive quarter. Check out the highlights below to see what’s been delivered.

In this session of the Cardano Developer Office Hours, Giovanni Gargiulo, Senior Software Engineer – DevOps at the Cardano Foundation, presents the new Token Registry API v2 with full CIP-68 support. He demonstrates API endpoints, explains best practices for using the query_priority parameter, and covers support for tokens under both CIP-0026 and CIP-0068. A live demo shows practical use cases and integration opportunities for developers.

In this interview, Kristian Portz, co-founder of Masumi Network, explains how the platform builds infrastructure for AI agents to work together, make decisions, and handle payments autonomously - while staying secure and compliant with European regulations. Built on the Cardano blockchain, Masumi creates transparent systems where agents interact without human input. Portz highlights real-world use cases in finance and healthcare and considers how AI agents might shape future governance, marking a shift in technology collaboration. Sounds Exciting? Well..let’s dive right in!

In this session of the Cardano Developer Office Hours, Fabian Bormann, Team Lead of Ecosystem Engineering at the Cardano Foundation, presents UVerify, a lightweight tool for certifying and verifying data on Cardano without tokens or NFTs. He covers datums as an alternative to metadata, SDKs and white-label tools for devs, and real-world use cases like documents, credentials, and oracles. A live demo shows UVerify in action. The roadmap explores frictionless integrations and future opportunities for verifiable interactions across ecosystems.

In this session of the Cardano Developer Office Hours, the team presents PoP (Proof of Provenance), a project to decentralize open-source development on Cardano. They cover risks of centralized infrastructure, using Cardano for verifiable software metadata, Merkle trees, and on-chain tracking. A live demo shows PoP in action. Use cases include secure versioning, on-chain test management, SPOs as decentralized oracles, and decentralized package tools.

Alex Nemish and Oleksii Khodakivskyi from Lantr introduce Scalus, a smart contract framework built with Scala 3. They walk through the vision, roadmap, and show how it simplifies development on Cardano, including a live demo of a payment splitter contract. This session is ideal for devs exploring new tools to build on Cardano.