- Cardano crosses 11 million token policies as on-chain activity expands.
- A ₳70 million Critical Integrations Budget is now on-chain for community review.
- The proposal targets stablecoins, liquidity, cross-chain links, analytics, and custody.
Cardano has moved past 11 million token policies, a figure that reflects the strong pace of growth across its base layer.
This activity comes from memecoins, community tokens, NFTs, DeFi trials, and various micro-projects that continue to launch directly on Cardano without needing smart contracts.
The system allows creators to mint and manage tokens at the protocol level, which has encouraged wide experimentation across the ecosystem. Notably, this means Cardano was active in the network, even when other networks were taking longer times.
Token policy data shows that there are developers, collectors, or communities who prefer Cardano because of low and fixed fees and simplified rules regarding tokens.
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₳70 Million Integrations Budget Enters Governance
Intersect reported that the Cardano Critical Integrations Budget, developed in order to prepare the Cardano ecosystem for 2026, was placed online so that Delegated Representatives and the Constitutional Committee could review it and cast votes.
Specifically, the budget highlights the cooperation between Input Output, EMURGO, the Cardano Foundation, Intersect, and the Midnight Foundation, particularly in the context of the mainnet event from the previous week.
The new plan will allocate ₳70,000,000 from the Treasury to support a single program related to ecosystem integrations.
The allocated amount will contribute to important aspects that Cardano lacks or needs to develop, such as stable money setup, enhanced liquidity, institutional support, and integration support regarding real-world assets and DePIN projects.
Several of these integrations are already in discussions with large partners. With discussions moving along, approval from the community would allow the process to begin using a clear, accountable process led by governance.
Intersect will be the administrator, something its own board of directors endorses, with most of the members of the current board elected by the broader community, the proposal states.
Five Pillars for Cardano’s Next Phase
Here are five critical integrations that will help in Cardano’s next phase of development, according to the Critical Integrations Budget. The first critical integration category is tier-one stablecoins.
These stablecoins are important in DeFi, liquidity markets, and other real-world payment scenarios using real-world tokens. The other critical area of integration is institutional-grade custody and wallets.
The third section concentrates on advanced on-chain analysis with clear real-time data that the regulators, as well as the other users, need.
The fourth section concentrates on the bridges that enable the flow of liquidity and users from Cardano to other large-scale networks.
The final section covers the oracles that are globally recognized since these components are critical in stablecoins, real-world asset trading, and complex DeFi applications.
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