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The Cardano Foundation is seeking Service Providers to support the Fall '26 cohort of the Cardano Accelerator Program, themed Real-World Trust: Verifying Origins and Data on Cardano.

Five ventures are building verification infrastructure across digital product passports, verified identity, traceability, and responsible AI and oracles. The program is looking for proven experience in go-to-market, sales and partnerships, legal and compliance, marketing, fundraising, or international expansion. Prior Web3 experience is useful but not required.

Selected providers deliver a 60-minute session for up to five teams.

If you'd like to explore this opportunity, learn more and apply here: https://cardanofoundation.org/blog/cap-service-providers-fall26

Applications are now open for the Fall '26 cohort of the Cardano Accelerator Program.

This round focuses on verifiable provenance and product lifecycle on Cardano: building trust into how goods are identified, traced, and accounted for, from raw materials to end of life.

The Foundation is looking for ventures working across:

• Digital product passports
• Commodity traceability
• Asset identity systems
• Circular economy infrastructure

What selected teams get:

• Two-track mentorship (technical and business)
• CHF 10,000 contribution toward milestone delivery
• In-person kick-off week, Demo Day finish
• Access to strategic advisors, investors, and ecosystem partners

Apply for the program by 5 June: https://cardanofoundation.org/register/cardano-accelerator-application-may-2026

Learn more about this cohort: https://cardanofoundation.org/blog/cap-fall26-applications

April recap is up. A lot happened across the ecosystem this month, so here are some highlights:

• ETFs launched in the US
• Eight-figure ada liquidity deployment across DEXs via Flowdesk
• Cardano confirmed as an official x402 chain (AI agent payments)
• Full on-chain dataset live on Dune
• CIP-0113 (programmable tokens) entered formal audit
• Draper Dragon Orion Fund moved into initial deployment

On the developer side, there were also new releases for Reeve, the Token Metadata Registry, and Yaci Store, plus Developer Office Hours sessions covering Scalus, SIDAN Lab tooling, Andamio v2, and Razor for the .NET ecosystem.

Governance-wise, the Foundation voted yes on Catalyst administration and on funding Dingo (Go-based block producer), and the Summit 2026 proposal went through a full community feedback cycle that ended with a revised standalone submission and a 22% reduced budget.

These, and lots more in the full article: https://cardanofoundation.org/blog/april-2026-activities

Big news for Cardano DeFi today. Pyth Pro is live, closing one of the last missing pieces in the stack: high-performance, institutional-grade pricing infrastructure.

Pyth Pro delivers millisecond-level price updates with sub-100ms end-to-end latency, broad cross-asset coverage across crypto, equities, FX, and commodities, and audited production-ready infrastructure. Data is sourced directly from 125+ institutional publishers who are active participants in price discovery, not downstream vendors or aggregators. No API scraping, no opaque pricing logic.

This matters because synthetic assets, lending markets, and derivatives all depend on pricing that is accurate, fast, and resistant to manipulation. Cardano builders now have access to the same class of pricing infrastructure used by professional trading systems and market makers.

Indigo Protocol is the first user, with more Cardano protocols to follow.

Our technical team supported the architectural and structuring phase of development alongside Intersect.

Read the full announcement here: https://www.pyth.network/blog/pyth-pro-is-live-on-cardano-the-pricing-layer-cardano-defi-has-been-waiting-for

Some good news to share from the Foundation. We have just announced a partnership with the University of Brasília (UnB), and we are launching the first Cardano Project Development Lab in Latin America together.

For those who may not be aware, UnB is one of Brazil's most respected public universities. It sits right in Brasília, close to the federal government, and has educated generations of public servants, diplomats, and policymakers. That kind of proximity to the public sector is exactly what makes this collaboration interesting.

The lab will focus on real-world use cases, with work spanning applied research, curriculum across undergraduate and postgraduate programs, training for civil servants, and engagement with startups and government partners.

Plenty more to come from the region. Full announcement here: https://cardanofoundation.org/blog/cardano-foundation-university-brasilia-partnership

This new case study walks through how the Foundation recorded its annual financials directly on Cardano using Reeve, with every transaction linked to a verified legal entity, and how Grant Thornton Switzerland/Liechtenstein then applied standard audit procedures to those records.

The combination of a tamper-proof on-chain record and verified legal identity is what made the audit possible. Public blockchain data alone is not enough; you need to know which real-world entity is behind each transaction.

Worth a read for anyone curious about how blockchain reporting can fit alongside traditional audit work.

Case study: https://cardanofoundation.org/case-studies/grant-thornton

Quick update for anyone who has been considering the Cardano Blockchain Certified Associate (CBCA) certification.

The exam used to require attending in person at a testing centre, which was a real barrier for a lot of people. It is now fully online, and the course and exam are both available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

The course itself is self-paced, runs about 8.5 hours, and covers Cardano's architecture, consensus, governance, and the broader ecosystem. On passing the exam, you get a recognised professional credential.

If you have been on the fence because of the in-person requirement or the language barrier, now is a good time to take a look.

https://cardanofoundation.org/en/academy/course/cbca