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<a href="https://u.today/cardano-ada-skyrockets-75-in-volume-amid-284-million-short-liquidation" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Cardano (ADA)</a> has achieved a significant milestone, surpassing 111 million total transactions on its network.
Reaching 111 million total transactions is more than simply a symbolic number. It shows sustained growth in user activity, increased engagement with decentralized apps (dApps) and the ongoing development of Cardano infrastructure. The increase also demonstrates Cardano's ability to process transactions without severe network congestion or performance issues, having maintained uptime for more than seven years.
According to the most recent <a href="https://x.com/InputOutputHK/status/1941153856702087434" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">data</a>, the Cardano network now supports 2,005 active projects, with delegated wallets at 1.33 million, showing continued engagement in network staking.
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 Another week, another Cardano development update, now live on Essential Cardano. Check this week’s highlights and get the latest on core technology, wallets and services, smart contracts, and scaling and governance developments.<a href="https://t.co/pK08jmUYow" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://t.co/pK08jmUYow</a> <a href="https://t.co/FTD0Ei09kF" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pic.twitter.com/FTD0Ei09kF</a>— Input Output (@InputOutputHK) <a href="https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1941153856702087434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">July 4, 2025</a>
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Smart contract deployment is also on the upswing, with 138,996 Plutus scripts and 7,682 Aiken scripts now active. The number of DReps has increased to 1,377, with 976 active, indicating continuous expansion in on-chain governance. A 27% increase in GitHub commits, which hit 259, demonstrates the community's strong dedication to the Cardano ecosystem.
According to a recent report by Santiment, Cardano remains a steady frontrunner in development activity, with the ADA team ranking fourth in terms of notable GitHub events.
At the time of writing, ADA was down 1.96% in the last 24 hours to $0.5719, in line with the current market downturn, but had recaptured the $20 billion mark in market value, now at $20.23 billion.
<h2 id="cardano-reimagining-its-node">Cardano reimagining its node</h2>
Project Acropolis reimagines the Cardano node as a live ecosystem where developers may build apps from within, rather than only interact from the outside.
Project Acropolis, which began in October 2024 with the Caryatid framework, is in the "early explorer phase" to prove the idea is technically viable.
The present Cardano node is monolithic, meaning it is a single, complicated system that handles everything in one package. Acropolis organizes this into loosely linked modules that communicate via message buses and may be combined, matched and extended. <a href="https://u.today/111-million-transactions-what-this-milestone-means-for-cardano" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Read original article on U.Today</a>

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