Philip DiSarro, CEO and founding father of Anastasia Labs who goes by the title of “Phil” on X, famous that Cardano has a number of seen work happening proper now.
This contains launches, bulletins, debates and massive concepts, however a wholesome ecosystem additionally will depend on the unglamorous work that just about no person sees, the Anastasia Labs CEO added.
Cardano has a number of seen work: launches, bulletins, debates, large concepts. However a wholesome ecosystem additionally will depend on the unglamorous work that just about no person sees, the modifying, evaluate cycles, cleanup, coordination, and relentless consideration to element that turns tough drafts into…
— phil (@phil_uplc) February 14, 2026
This unglamorous work contains modifying, evaluate cycles, cleanup, coordination and relentless consideration to element that turns tough drafts into one thing the group can truly construct on. In mild of this, he shouted out a Cardano group member, Robert Phair, who has been devoted to transferring the CIP course of ahead.
Cardano has issued a handful of bulletins this week. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson revealed on the Consensus occasion that USDCx stablecoin will launch on Cardano by the top of February. “We now have a stupendous UX, you’ll be able to go straight from any pockets to Coinbase or Binance and again. There’s immediate convertibility to $USDC,” Hoskinson mentioned.
In a separate announcement, LayerZero, a multichain messaging protocol connecting over 160 blockchains with $200 billion in cross-chain quantity, can be built-in with Cardano and its ecosystem. This marks one other enormous step for Cardano’s interoperability, with the combination unlocking the biggest cross-chain connectivity enlargement in Cardano’s historical past. That is anticipated to open the pathway to stablecoin liquidity, Bitcoin-backed property, tokenized real-world property and shared DeFi infrastructure throughout the broader crypto ecosystem.
Midnight mainnet launch date introduced
Midnight mainnet is predicted to formally go stay earlier than the top of March, whereas Midnight Metropolis has a possible launch date of Feb. 26.
Growth work is progressing on Ouroboros Leios, which is able to improve Cardano community capability 50x. The primary mainnet launch is predicted to spice up Cardano from 10 TPS to 500 TPS, with its functionality to achieve 1,000 TPS to be showcased within the close to future.
Strike, a perpetual protocol on Cardano, noticed a V2 launch, whereas Cardano futures launched on the CME group.

