Cardano’s founding developer is stepping back. Input Output announced Friday it will transfer control of the blockchain’s core engineering stack to outside specialist firms starting in August
Cardano’s founding developer is stepping back. Input Output announced Friday it will transfer control of the blockchain’s core engineering stack to outside specialist firms starting in August, covering the Haskell node, Plutus smart-contract platform, Daedalus wallet, and Hydra scaling tool. The full transition runs through 2027.
Two firms are leading the handover. Se7en Labs, a development agency with a Solana infrastructure background, and Teragone, a cryptographic research team that already leads development of Mithril, Cardano’s stake-based signature protocol, are among the incoming stewards. At least three independent node implementations in Haskell, Rust, and Go will run simultaneously, overseen by community bodies Intersect and Pragma.
