🎉 Join us as we kick off the new year with the first edition of Essential Cardano360 for 2025! Here’s what’s happening across the Cardano ecosystem this month.

We’ve got an update from Intersect MBO on Cardano’s open-source governance tooling and the latest on Cardano budget for 2025.

Next, we reflect on last month’s Constitutional Convention, and look ahead to a significant milestone: the ratification of the Cardano Constitution, which will cement key governance principles for the community.

We also hear from the Ouroboros Leios team, who share how their work on the protocol will enable Cardano to scale more effectively in the years to come.

And for this month’s Building On Cardano, we’re joined by Fluid Tokens as they showcase their DeFi protocol.

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⏳Timestamps:

00:00:00 Welcome to Essential Cardano360 - January 2025 edition

00:01:37 Update from the Intersect members based organisation

00:10:44 Cardano Constitution with Michael Madoff

00:15:41 A sneak peek into the Cardano Constitution Documentary

00:18:02 A closer look at Ouroboros Leios and scaling with Nicolas Biri, William Wolff and Brian Bush

00:27:53 Building On Cardano: Fluid Tokens’s CEO Matteo Coppola & CTO Raul Rosa &

00:43:35 Closing remarks & useful links

💻 Useful Links:

🔗 Intersect:

Become a part of the Intersect Members based organization: https://www.intersectmbo.org/

Intersect discord: / discord

🔗 Learn more about the Constitutional Convention: https://cardanoconvention.com/

Watch the Ouroboros Leios Monthly Review & Demo - January 2025 edition: https://www.youtube.com/live/6ovcWDCdqFU

🔗BuildingOnCardano

Fluid Tokens: https://fluidtokens.com/

Follow Fluid Tokens on X: https://x.com/FluidTokens

🔗From the blog:

Hydra Doom Tournament Article in HackerNoon: https://hackernoon.com/hydra-achieves-1-million-tps-validating-cardano-as-the-fastest-blockchain

Hyperledger Identus - then, now, and tomorrow: https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2025/01/27/hyperledger-identus-then-now-and-tomorrow/

Six reasons why EUTXO wins: https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2025/01/08/six-reasons-why-eutxo-wins/

What’s next for Cardano?

https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2025/01/29/what-s-next-for-cardano/

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