🛠 While progress on the Cardano Lightning roadmap has been slower than planned, our commitment hasn’t wavered. This is a marathon, not a sprint, and 2025 is the year to pick up the pace. 👉 Read more:

Kicking off 2025 with a few updates! 1⃣ Preprod testnet server is live with OpenAPI in both JSON & HTML - please check links down below 👇! 2⃣ TS-SDK fixes are underway. 3⃣ Soon: Easy contract development with `npm install @marlowe.io/runtime-lifecycle`. 👀 Watch for a

🎉 Congrats to all who succeeded in F13! 🎉 🚀 While Cardano Lightning didn’t make it this time, we’re far from done. We’ll be back! 🤖 ⚡️ Meanwhile, our work on the protocol continues, with more updates in January⚡️ 🎄 And of course, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 🎄

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that one of our proposals was funded in #ProjectCatalyst! A huge thank you to the Cardano community for their support. 🙏 📢 More news coming in January—stay tuned!

Cardano Node takes ~90 seconds to load its ledger state of ~2.5 GB at startup. That’s >100x slower than the read throughput of modern SSDs. DT takes 7. @IOHK_Charles, that’s how Cardano improves the user experience, right? Ensures that everyone has the time for a cup of coffee!

⏰ Less than 24 hours left to vote in #ProjectCatalyst! 🌟 The Cardano Foundation has picked and supports our Marlowe Oracle Protocol proposal. 🗳️ If you’re choosing just one of our three proposals, we recommend this one! 👉 Search "Marlowe 2025" in the Catalyst app to vote.

🎙️ We’re going live on 𝕏 tomorrow! Instead of our regular Discord developer meeting, we’re opening up the discussion in a Twitter Space: 👉 https://t.co/59X6qobM6X Join us to chat about Marlowe 2025 - our F13 proposals, and what’s next for the ecosystem.

📢 Don’t miss us today on this AMA Space hosted by @CardanoSpot! ⚡ We’ll talk all things Cardano Lightning ⚡ ⏰ Join us:

A two for one!! This post introduces our Marlowe proposal for which we'll be working with @thompson_si and @TomRybarczyk and the @marlowe_io team on... but it's the video of our voting power proposal ;) Here's the video for Marlowe:

@gaffar_olamide From lightning? Quite far still I believe. There's no Hydra routing and it's not an easy problem. Although few teams were looking into it for some time already. Yet, I don't see payment as a plausible use case for Hydra at this point. Happy to be proven wrong.

Super Charging Cardano Transactions Cardano Spot Presents an Exclusive AMA with Cardano Lightning Team on Monday 1900 Hrs UTC 🙌🏻 SET REMINDER 🫵 @AnujChaudhary25 @TomRybarczyk @waalge

After 8 months of hard work, we just submitted our final proof of achivement on our @Catalyst_onX Fund 11 proposal: https://t.co/0dsjLJFv2t The first official release of the libcardano-c is out https://t.co/kASuGGjo7r 🎉 #Cardano #CardanoCommunity #CardanoADA

⚡ Get ready for lightning-powered coffee with @Waalge and @TomRybarczyk. 📢 Join us on Cardano over Coffee (@coc_space) tomorrow at 15:35 UTC! ☕ Let’s brew up some instant, secure, and scalable ideas together!

☕ Brew your coffee and join us tomorrow at Cardano Over Coffee (@coc_space)! Prof. @thompson_si and @TomRybarczyk from the Marlowe Team will be live at ~3:35 PM UTC. Don’t miss the buzz about Cardano and Marlowe. 📢

Looks like it's gonna rain on Cadrano! #EngineersDoMarketing #Cardano #ProjectCatalyst

Vote for our Fee Market for #Cardano #ProjectCatalyst proposal: https://t.co/T88CGmxoW6 Currently Cardano doesn't have a Fee Market. We propose a hybrid system where 50% of transactions are processed in order of arrival while the remaining 50% are prioritised by fee amount.

Make an impact with your vote in Catalyst Fund13! We have three @marlowe_io proposals. In the Catalyst app search for: Marlowe 2025 Your vote helps shape the future of #Marlowe on #Cardano!

SCALING: The Mithril team released a one-line installer for pre-built binaries, simplifying updates for SPO signers. They published a protocol security overview, added NodeJS support to the WASM client, and explored signer registration solutions for multiple aggregators.

🛠️We’re moving from concept to 3 working MVPs—the backbone of the lightning network! 🔍 Search "lightning node" in the Catalyst app to find our 👇3 proposals👇:

🌩 Take Cardano Lightning to the clouds with our e2e suite in F13 🌩 🌐 Calvus - the incenivized routing node: https://t.co/AL0op1T7jf 📱 Cirrus - the mobile first end user node: https://t.co/slE92ewkxC 🛒 Stratus - the merchant node and SDK: