Cardano Foundation Shares Major Progress in Global Adoption Roadmap for 2025–2026

• Cardano Foundation has updated its community on the progress of its adoption roadmap, including the launch of the Binance and Cardano academy. 
• Currently, Cardano is reported to have completed the methodology and DRep list as part of the general progress. 

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In September, the Cardano Foundation shared its roadmap for global adoption, including Decentralized Finance (DeFi) liquidity initiative support and expanded promotion. Today, the team has shared another post explaining how its roadmap is rolling out across all focus areas.

Details of the Cardano Adoption Roadmap Progress

In the post shared by the Cardano Foundation, there is significant progress in the area of education and promotion as the Binance and Cardano academy goes live, as indicated in our earlier post. According to reports, this program ensures that everyone has access to blockchain education. For now, more than 32,000 users have completed their courses.

The team has also released new video content and resources to improve understanding in the area of Cardano use cases. In the area of Real World Assets (RWA), Cardano has now aligned with x402 sponsors. Currently, they are working to finalize and implement the standards to boost adoption.

In a bid to come up with a framework that improves Interoperability, transparency, and “practical adoption of tokenized RWA on the blockchain,” Cardano is working closely with community contributors.

According to the post, Cardano is also making massive progress in the area of Web3.

Strategy and target integrations for 2026 are now aligned, creating a clear path for enterprise and ecosystem collaboration. Recruitment for new technical and ecosystem roles is underway, expanding the Foundation’s capacity to support scalable integrations and developer engagement.

In governance decentralization, the team has completed the methodology and the DRep list. Before the end of the year, delegation would be introduced as the next phase.

In September, the team disclosed that it is building on a delegation of 40 million ADA to seven builder DReps. It also mentioned that it would continue to support decentralized governance with an additional 220 million ADA to 11 DReps, as noted in our earlier publication. Fascinating, there are plans to reduce its influence by ensuring that its self-delegation is reduced to 80 million ADA.

Cardano Foundation also hints that it is making progress in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) as it completes vendor selection and agreement. It also stated that there would be the provision of an eight-figure ADA in liquidity for Cardano stablecoin projects.

Additionally, Cardano Foundation has disclosed that it will shift focus to support the larger Cardano ecosystem. This aligns with the earlier proposals to convert $100 million in ADA into stablecoins, as detailed in our previous news brief.

To keep financial sustainability during this period, we are sunsetting our current SPO delegation strategy by delegating to our own Cardano Foundation pools, which we fully pledge, over the next few months. We thank the almost 400 pools that received a delegation from the Foundation and carry forward the mission of decentralization.

As part of this course, the Cardano Core Develop Team has also secured proposals to use 96 million ADA in proposed upgrades next year, as highlighted in our earlier discussion. Cardano has equally established a policy center to advance blockchain, health, and agriculture, according to our previous update.

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