Cardano Treasury Greenlights Major Push On Scaling & UX

The centerpiece, according to Linda a.k.a CryptoFly, is the IO “consensus initiative” built around Laos, a scaling solution intended to push Cardano “out of testnet territory and toward mainnet readiness.”

The target: a 10 to 60 times increase in throughput, achieved via parallel processing during block propagation — a phase the host says is currently “largely idle,” capping transactions per second.

The YouTube video stresses that this upgrade is meant to preserve decentralization and keep stake pool operator (SPO) costs low, a recurring concern as hardware requirements rise when block capacity grows.

Laos builds on top of Ouroboros Praos rather than replacing it, positioning the work as an evolution of Cardano’s (ADA) existing consensus rather than a fork in design.

A broad “Cardano upgrades” proposal also passed, bundling three very notable changes: CIP-159 account/address enhancements to improve handling of small payments and open “new revenue models” for wallets and aggregators; a multi-asset treasury concept that would allow reserves and budgeting in assets beyond ADA, including potential stablecoins; and renewed work on Babel fees.

Babel fees would let users pay transaction costs in non-ADA assets. Linda points out that a form of this already exists via FluTokens on mainnet, but requires ADA collateral. IO’s version aims to remove that constraint and make it easier, for example, to pay with BTC when bridging in, or use a game’s native token for in-game transactions.

On the builder side, several funded proposals focus on security and developer experience. A “high assurance technical collaboration” will expand formal verification tools from single contracts to entire dApps, add vulnerability analysis and support multiple smart contract languages.

Parallel efforts around Plutus and a separate “developer experience initiative” target faster, cheaper contracts and less painful onboarding, in partnership with ecosystem teams such as Midgard Labs, TX Pipe, Harmonic Labs and others.

A maintenance initiative covers the unglamorous but essential work — bug fixes, disaster recovery, infrastructure performance and security reviews — that underpins every other upgrade.

Looking beyond the current cycle, the “Cardano Vision 2026” research proposal was also approved.

Rather than shipping a single feature, it funds a research pipeline around three themes: scalability (including layers, L2 infrastructure, zero-knowledge scaling, data availability, even sharding), user experience (light clients, decentralized APIs, intent-based transactions, more on Babel fees), and long-term security.

The research scope explicitly includes evolving stake pool incentives as SPOs are asked to support additional services like Mithril and future layers, as well as interoperability (bridges, atomic swaps), decentralized identity, governance improvements and post-quantum cryptography.

CryptoFly frames this as preparing Cardano for a future in which “security requirements, user expectations and the broader blockchain landscape look very different from today.”

Cardano’s treasury is now committed to making the chain more scalable, easier to build on, less dependent on ADA alone for budgeting and fees, and more formally secure — while reserving budget for longer-term bets on L2s, interoperability and quantum-resistant cryptography. Execution risk remains, but the governance round has set a distinct strategic direction.

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