Cardano’s 2025 roadmap charts a clear path to high‑throughput settlement, liquidity expansion, and a constellation of Layer‑2s (Hydra, Midgard roll‑ups, AVS partner chains) that together unlock real‑world‑asset (RWA) tokenisation, regulated stablecoins, and consumer‑grade DeFi.

Blockdaemon is the world’s most trusted blockchain‑infrastructure provider for institutions—securing >$110 B in digital assets, operating nodes on 70+ networks, and serving exchanges, banks, and FinTechs on five continents. leverages this expertise to deliver a cohesive stack that accelerates the Cardano roadmap from specification to institutional deployment.

RPC Infrastructure - L1 and L2 expansion Core network infrastructure Wallet Integrations Operator Dashboard Developer API Integrations for Cardano & L2 networks Community & Governance Marketing Programs

Deliverables & Milestones (12-24‑Month Timeline): Deliverables and Milestones will be collaboratively determined in partnership with the Emurgo, Cardano and Blockdaemon organizations. We will then map out the next 12 to 24 month delivery schedule

Conclusion: Cardano’s 2025 roadmap delivers the protocol capabilities; Blockdaemon supplies the industrial‑grade rails, additional cohort exposure, and community programmes that convert those capabilities into live stablecoins, tokenised treasuries, micro‑payment apps, and institutional staking flows. By eliminating infrastructure friction and amplifying Cardano’s story across our enterprise network, Blockdaemom accelerates adoption, strengthens resilience, and returns tangible economic value to the entire ecosystem.

We invite the Product Committee, the Cardano Foundation, and the wider community to join us in making Cardano the most reliable, inclusive, and institution‑ready blockchain network in the world.

Blockdaemon’s goals, mission and customer base aligns well with Cardano’s Goals:

• Increase broader usage - Institutional adoption
• Make it easier to build and stake - provide a platform for developers
• Offer broader applications to attack builders and more use cases
• Joint marketing and branding efforts to increase awareness and adoption
• Support and enhance governance policies and posture

Blockdaemom will be able to drive institutional adoption of Cardano by enabling mainstream use cases—stablecoins, real‑world‑asset (RWA) tokenisation, and capital‑efficient DeFi—through an enterprise‑grade infrastructure stack.

Problem: Cardano’s 2025 roadmap delivers breakthrough capabilities (Leios parallel blocks, Hydra & Midgard L2s, AVS partner chains, Babel‑Fees, ZK bridges), but the ecosystem still lacks production‑ready, SLA‑backed infrastructure that institutions require to build and trust real‑world applications:

• Roadmap explicitly calls for “multiple node implementations” to ensure resilience.
• The “Scaling the L1 Engine” section highlights the need for high‑throughput benchmarks.
• High‑speed DeFi and fintech pilots cannot move to production without turnkey validator clusters and uptime guarantees. L2 solutions are deemed critical for throughput, yet deployment tooling is sparse.
• Stablecoin issuers and RWA platforms need seamless BTC/ETH liquidity bridges and fee‑in‑asset support; lacking these adds UX friction.
• Institutional stakers face compliance hurdles and security risks without automated MPC wallet support, audit trails, and analytics. The Cardano roadmap stresses SPO incentive research and secure wallet standards.

Solution: Enhance the enterprise‑grade infrastructure stack to unlock diversified institutional use cases Blockdaemon proposes to:

• Institutional and Community RPC resources for existing and upcoming Cardano L2s
• Provide Hydra node support for Midnight and other network launches
• Validator operations with 99.9 % SLA, automated dev‑net spin‑ups and on‑chain monitoring.
• Integrate advanced staking & MPC‑wallet modules that satisfy institutional custody, reporting and compliance needs.
• Open‑source contributions aligning with Cardano’s open ethos and ensuring long‑term sustainability.
• Community-good Validator - with support from the Cardino foundation and treasury

Why this project should be undertaken: Without dependable, enterprise‑grade infrastructure, Cardano’s upcoming protocol innovations will struggle to translate into institutional‑scale adoption. Projects introducing tokenised U.S. Treasuries, regulated stablecoins, or fintech payment rails will continue to face delays, security concerns, and operational friction. By filling these gaps now—precisely where the roadmap calls for “critical missing infrastructure” and “node diversity”— Blockdaemon accelerates Cardano’s move from technical promise to mainstream utility, directly advancing the community’s mission of economic inclusion at a global scale.

Funding this proposal equips Cardano with the industrial‑grade rails that turn 2025 roadmap innovations into production revenue and global impact—delivering measurable economic, security and social returns for every segment of the community.

This proposal helps solve a practical but pressing challenge: how do we make it easier for organizations, especially those outside the typical crypto-native circles, to build on Cardano without getting bogged down by infrastructure complexities?

By implementing this proposal, we’re offering the Cardano ecosystem something it needs right now: a dependable infrastructure layer that allows institutions to easily adopt and focus on building on Cardano, rather than spending cycles on node uptime, staking logic, or security concerns. That unlocks value in a very tangible way. It speeds up the timeline for new projects to go live. It opens the door for fintechs and enterprises to deploy real-world use cases without needing to reinvent the wheel.

Developers in less connected countries: Blockdaemon can host nodes and validators globally

Wallet integration - Institutional grade MPC wallet: ADA Staking directly from the wallet

Institutions and enterprises: Blockdaemon is globally recognized as the leader for institutional blockchain infrastructure, staking, institutional wallets and DeFi enabling institutional and enterprise adoption

Network effects: Every enterprise we onboard pulls its customers, liquidity and developers into Cardano, multiplying ADA utility.

In short, this proposal doesn’t just improve infrastructure for custodians and institutions, it creates leverage for everyone building RWA on Cardano.

[ 1 ]: Cardano Network API Integrated to Blockdaemon API Suite with Event streaming (10%)

[ 2 ]: Cardano integrated in Blockdaemon DeFi API (10%)

[ 3 ]: Institutional-grade infrastructure support for (5) Cardano-ecosystem “L2s” over the next 24 months (RPC Nodes and API, Validators (where applicable), Staking Rewards Reporting Dashboards and API) (30% - 6% per network)

[ 4 ]: Marketing Activation mutually decided upon: VIP Dinners with key industry leaders and RWA asset providers, Newsletters, Blog Posts, Social Campaigns, Roundtables or X Spaces, White Papers, Joint marketing and branding efforts allows us to showcase Cardano as the enterprise‑ready DeFi, Stablecoin, and RWA chain (5%)

[ 5 ]: Hydra: supporting for planned and future L2 launches for (5) drops over next 24 months (10% - 2% per network)

[ 6 ]: Cardano RWA integrated in DeFi API (10%)

[ 7 ]: Blockdaemon Wallet Suite Integrations, Cardano Network and ADA supported in Wallet Suite (5) L2s assets and networks supported in Wallet Suite over next 24 months (25%)

See % breakdown above with milestones.

Engineering capacity supporting initiatives aligned to roadmap deliverables will be aligned to Cardano and Blockdaemon’s strategic goals. Blockdaemon is supporting Cardano’s roadmap and will ensure proper staffing/resourcing where required.

Blockdaemon powers the blockchain economy with comprehensive institutional solutions designed to support foundations in driving innovation and growth.

$110 Billion of digital assets secured for over 400 institutional customers 800+ REST and RPC endpoints for flexible blockchain access 250k Nodes launched across 300 different node types and 40+ locations 10+ cloud and bare metal spanning 70+ regions in 6 continents 99.9% uptime 70+ protocols supported 12+ preferred custodial partnerships 70+ terabit DDoS protection

Blockdaemon managed - once the infra, tech, or POC is built, then will there be enough funding in house to keep maintain them

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None at this time