Cardano Founder Says ‘Leios Is Coming’ As Proposal Heads To DReps
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson signaled renewed momentum behind Leios, the network’s next major consensus upgrade, as Input Output moved a ₳27.7 million funding proposal toward DRep approval. The proposal seeks to mature Leios from an early public testnet prototype into a mainnet-ready release candidate, positioning the upgrade as a central piece of Cardano’s 2030 scaling […]
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Charles Hoskinson says Cardano is now on a defined, accelerated path to its most ambitious performance leap yet. In an August 31 AMA, the Cardano founder highlighted an open-for-review Cardano Improvement Proposal (CIP) for Leios—a staged implementation plan that, in its first iteration, targets a 30× to 65× throughput increase while preserving Cardano’s determinism and […]
Cardano is preparing a layer-1 upgrade it says will push mainnet throughput from roughly 10–15 transactions per second to hundreds, while keeping the network’s decentralization and security profile intact. At a Tokyo community event on the Midnight Japan Tour, Input Output’s Michael Smolenski and Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson framed Ouroboros Leios as both a scaling […]
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used his 1 May 2025 livestream to unveil the first quantitative performance figures for Ouroboros Leios, the protocol upgrade that—if it performs in production as the prototype already does in simulation—promises what he called “an infinitely scalable protocol, a one-minus-delta protocol.” Ouroboros Leios: Cardano’s Boldest Upgrade Yet Speaking from Colorado, Hoskinson […]
In an interview on The Wolf of All Streets podcast, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson revealed new details about Cardano’s next major scalability upgrade, Leios, positioning it as a game-changing protocol enhancement designed to deliver “Solana-style speed” without sacrificing the project’s core commitments to decentralization and resilience. “Leios is going to give us Solana-style speed but […]
Cardano has taken a decisive step toward its long-planned throughput upgrade: a public Cardano Improvement Proposal (CIP) for “Ouroboros Leios” is now live for community review in the Cardano Foundation’s CIP repository. Announcing the submission on August 27, Input Output’s director of software architecture Nicolas “BeRewt” Biri wrote: “So, here it is, we now have […]