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🚀 Dingo: High-Performance Cardano Node

Join Chris Gianelloni (CEO, Blink Labs) for a discussion on Dingo, an alternative high-performance Cardano node and block producer written in Go.

We’ll explore its vision, current direction, and what’s coming next, along with its role in strengthening Cardano through implementation diversity.

📅 Friday, 12 June
🕗 14:00 UTC
🔗 https://www.addevent.com/event/h23v2cj14pk2

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to share some feedback regarding the current Gemini Pro subscription ($20/mo) and how its quota system feels incredibly punishing for a specific, yet likely massive, group of users: the casual "Vibe Coders."

I’d consider myself the textbook target customer for the Pro tier. During a normal week, my quota never runs out because I only use the standard web UI for general prompts. Features like Flow don't really interest me. For day-to-day use, the package is perfectly fine.

The problem starts when you actually want to build something.

I recently had a 14-day vacation and decided to finally start a personal coding project using Antigravity and the Antigravity CLI. To be as token-efficient and economical as possible, I deliberately chose the medium model (3.5).

Guess what? After just 2 days of vibe coding, I got hit with the dreaded message: “Sorry, quota reached. Please wait.”

Because of how fast a local IDE integration eats through context and tokens during active development, the quota just evaporates. And now? I’m essentially locked out for the rest of the week. No Antigravity, no CLI, nothing. My project is completely dead in the water during the exact timeframe I actually had time to work on it.

The missing middle ground

The pricing structure currently leaves users like me stranded:

• The everyday mix: Most weeks, the subscription is a "mixed calculation" for Google anyway—it barely gets utilized to its limits.
• The price jump is too extreme: Upgrading from the €22 Pro tier to the €99 Ultra tier just to handle a few high-intensity coding days a month is completely unrealistic for a hobbyist.
• No graceful degradation: When the quota hits, everything stops. There is no automated fallback to a lower tier or a cheaper model to keep the CLI running.

If Google wants to keep developers and tech-hobbyists in their ecosystem, they desperately need to rethink how these quotas interact with tools like Antigravity. We need a flexible solution—whether that’s a softer fallback model that keeps things running at a slower pace, or an adaptive quota that balances out unused volume from previous weeks.

As it stands, the Pro tier is great for daily chatting, but the moment you try to use it for real, concentrated building, it completely falls apart.

Would love to hear if other hobby devs are hitting this exact same wall.

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Join us for a new Cardano Governance Hour!

This session takes a closer look at the Cardano Builder DAO and the Initiative DAO Framework, together with Logan Panchot, co-founder of Clarity and an elected board member of CBDAO.

The discussion will focus on how this model approaches treasury allocation, governance design, and accountability, drawing from its first operational cycle and the lessons learned along the way.

Governance Hours go beyond written documentation and create space for deeper discussion. We’ll examine whether this framework offers a more effective way to tie treasury spending to measurable ecosystem impact, and how it compares to other governance approaches.

📅 Tuesday, 26 May
🕗 15:00 – 16:00 UTC
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🚀 ODATANO: Bringing Cardano to SAP Environments

Join Max Weber, Senior SAP Developer & Creator of ODATANO, for an insightful session exploring how Cardano can integrate with enterprise SAP systems through OData.

📋 Agenda

• Intro to OData: Why it matters for enterprise systems like SAP.
• ODATANO Overview: Understanding the OData V4 gateway for Cardano.
• Integration: Connecting into SAP BTP and modern cloud environments.
• Building Applications: How to build enterprise applications on top of ODATANO.
• Q&A: Your chance to ask questions directly to the creator.

📅 Event Details

• Date: Friday, 22 May
• Time: 08:00 – 09:00 UTC
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Join us for a new Cardano Governance Hour!

This session takes a closer look at the Leios proposal, together with Carlos Lopez de Lara, Product Manager at Input Output Group.

The discussion will focus on how Leios aims to scale Cardano’s throughput by introducing Endorser Blocks and committee-based validation, targeting a 10–65x increase in transaction capacity while maintaining decentralization and stake pool viability. We will also take the opportunity to explore how (and if) Leios benefits Stake Pool Operators, in particular through the introduction of Endorser Blocks.

As outlined in IO’s proposal, Leios is designed to support Cardano’s 2030 growth ambitions, enabling higher transaction volumes across DeFi, real-world assets, and enterprise use cases. With a Treasury ask of more than ₳27 million, the session will also cover the engineering work, testing strategy, and ecosystem coordination required to progress from public testnet to hard-fork readiness.

Tuesday, 19 May :clock8: 16:00 – 17:00 UTC
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🚀 Building Scalable Cardano Applications with Hydra

Join Sharan Konerira (PM, Hydra) and the Hydra Team for a session exploring Hydra, its architecture, and real-world use cases on Cardano.

Learn how Hydra provides instant finality, zero fees and high TPS and discover where it fits in the future of Cardano applications.

Perfect for developers interested in scalability and next-gen Cardano infrastructure.

• 📅 Friday, 15 May
• 🕗 14:00 – 15:00 UTC
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Join us for a new Cardano Governance Hour!

This session takes a closer look at the Core Cardano Maintenance & Operational Support proposal, together with Michael Karg.

The discussion will focus on the operational work required to keep Cardano secure, reliable, and performant, including node maintenance, infrastructure operations, release management, and incident response.

As outlined in IO’s proposal, this work forms the foundation that every application, SPO, and protocol upgrade depends on. With a Treasury ask exceeding ₳62 million, the session will also explore how maintenance should be evaluated, governed, and held accountable at ecosystem scale.

• 📅 Tuesday, 12 May
• 🕗 15:00 – 16:00 UTC
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🚀 Ecosystem Engineering Feature Showcase

Join the Cardano Foundation Ecosystem Engineering team for a special session highlighting some of the projects we’re currently building.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at ongoing work, explore new ideas, and see how these initiatives are shaping the Cardano developer ecosystem.

Come discover what we’ve been cooking on and join the conversation.

📅 Friday, 8 May 🕗 08:00 – 09:00 UTC https://www.addevent.com/event/zyrl0tzqgj35

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🚀 Aiken Updates

Join Matthias Benkort for a developer-focused session on the latest Aiken updates.

He’ll cover the newly released Aiken stdlib v3.1.0, including new features and improvements for smart contract development, and preview what’s coming in the upcoming Aiken v1.1.22 release.

📅 Event Details

• Date: Friday, 1 May
• Time: 14:00 – 15:00 UTC
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Happy Tuesday!

This week’s Digest highlights Cardano’s integration into the x402 standard, enabling automated payments for AI agents, and Blockfrost’s new Filecoin integration for decentralized developer storage.

Technical milestones take center stage with the JuLC compiler debut at JCON 2026 and progress on the Van Rossem Upgrade (Node v11.0). Governance activity intensifies as the 2026-27 Budget Proposal is released and Constitutional Committee registrations open on May 1.

We also recap a unified ecosystem showing at Paris Blockchain Week and spotlight the work of content creators Peter Bui and Cardano Feed.

All this, and much more, in today’s Community Digest:

https://forum.cardano.org/t/digest-april-28-2026-cardano-becomes-official-x402-chain-blockfrost-integrates-filecoin-premium-storage-intersect-mbo-governance-technical-updates-cardano-at-jcon-2026-in-cologne-spotlight-on-cardano-content-creators/154318

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🚀 x402 on Cardano

Join Fabian Bormann, Head of Ecosystem Engineering at the Cardano Foundation, for an open session explaining version 2 of the x402 standard, including progress toward integration with Cardano.

This interactive session will include an overview of the Cardano x402 specification document and its current status, followed by an open discussion with the community to answer questions and gather feedback from the ecosystem.

📅 Friday, 24 April 🕗 08:00 – 09:00 UTC https://www.addevent.com/event/x1lpywb3jp09

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