Happy Wednesday!

This week's Community Digest is packed. Cardano is planning to go big at TOKEN2049 Singapore, taking over a 108sqm booth with 20 ecosystem projects joining the delegation, and we're also looking back at Rare Evo 2026 with a fresh recap video capturing the energy from Las Vegas.

On governance, two on-chain actions need DRep and SPO votes before the September 1 deadline, and the Catalyst Pilot team is shaking up funding with grants up to 200k ADA tied to real-world usage. Applications for both project proposals and Decision Panel reviewers close August 25.

Also inside this edition: Creator Radar, the latest CIP updates, a roundup of ecosystem newsletters, and what's new in builder tech and office hours.

All this, and more, in today's Community Digest: https://forum.cardano.org/t/digest-august-19-2026-cardano-at-token2049-rare-evo-2026-recap-urgent-governance-call-to-action-rethinking-catalyst-funding-real-world-impact-tech-wins-cip-updates-and-more/156342

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The vote to seat Cardano's newly elected 2026 Constitutional Committee needs enough support before the current members' terms expire. If it fails, the committee could fall below its required minimum, temporarily blocking the ratification of major governance actions.

This doesn't stop the Cardano network, but it can slow or block important development decisions.

We've seen with Osmosis how declining participation and voter apathy can weaken decentralized governance. Let's not repeat that.

If you hold ADA, delegate your governance power to an active DRep and check how they're voting on “Update Constitutional Committee 2026.”

Decentralization only works if we participate.

I have opened my SecondFi wallet waiting for the migration procedure today and it seems all my tokens worth 0$, anyone else having the same issue? In theory it seems like a bug since the tokens are there but they worth 0.

I generated my seed phrase using a Ledger many years ago and interfaced with Yoroi - the name of my wallet is "Yoroi-Ledger" in SecondFi. I have also redeemed 2/4 midnight token drops. I know the redemption date for my 3rd set of tokens has passed but this was after the hack.

All my tokens appear safe and I wanted to confirm if it's as simple as installing an open source wallet interface such as Eternl and using my pass phrase on that? Then I'll be able to redeem my midnight again via the Eternl interface?

Hi guys, I’ve had about half of my ADA staked in a pool through Yoroi, but luckily through my ledger. My ADA is fine, I just want to transfer it elsewhere now, but whilst ledger is acknowledging my full ADA balance including staking rewards, it’s only considering the initial ADA deposit ~4 years ago as ‘available to send’ and it’s treating my staking rewards as a second pile. How do I free up the rewards now that Yoroi is closed?

There’s an option to remove the delegation through ledger, but I’m worried that would just forfeit my rewards. Any help would be great! I will not be checking DMs

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Hey everyone, looking for advice or visibility from any Poloniex reps here.
I deposited 200,000 ADA (25 days back) to my official Poloniex ADA deposit address. The transaction went through completely fine on-chain, but the funds never credited to my exchange balance.
The Technical Issue:
Because Cardano uses the Extended UTXO (EUTXO) model, my transaction bundled a tiny piece of third-party dust—a native Cardano token called ADAOZ—into the exact same UTXO input.
Because Poloniex’s automated wallet system doesn't natively list or recognize ADAOZ, their deposit detection filter completely choked and flagged the deposit as "unsupported asset," leaving the 200,000 ADA frozen in limbo.
The Proof:
TXID: 09d9aab38e3cf1f13c186cf6b1396e548f0d1fc550b17aaec3b59b58886f2580
On-chain Status: Completely successful. The 200,000 ADA is physically resting inside the Poloniex-controlled Cardano address. They hold the private keys.
Support's Response:
I opened a ticket, and front-line support closed it with a generic, boilerplate response stating "cannot recover funds."
This is factually and technically wrong. This isn't a cross-chain mistake where I sent tokens to the wrong network. The ADA is right there in their wallet. A wallet admin or DevOps engineer just needs to manually split the UTXO bundle, credit the ADA, and discard the dust.
Dismissing a 200000 ada user deposit with an automated copy-paste script is completely unacceptable.
Has anyone successfully dealt with an exchange failing to parse a Cardano multi-asset UTXO before? If any Poloniex staff are reading this, please escalate my issue to a senior wallet administrator immediately.
Ticket ID: 202608090042434688716873

Looks a lot like ETF is not going to be happening. Now after Grayscale pulling back there is no ETF filings in progress.

So I just read about this “hack” or security vulnerability. I always check up on my Cardano using VESPR. Every few months I log into Yoroi to claim my rewards. I logged in today and notice some banner saying I’m not compromised or something, which lead me to start reading about this.

So my confusion is we are told to transfer to a new Lace wallet with a 24 seed phrase, but not to send a test transaction as that will expose your old seed and bots will drain your wallet before you can blink.

So this means I have to abandon the few thousand ADA I’ve made in the past couple months as unstaking from the pool will trigger a transaction and again bots will instantly drain me.

I then came up with the idea of transferring it all but leaving a few ADA for gas. Once the majority is safe I could ten unstake and try to recover the rewards, but now I’m reading even just sending a transfer out is risky as bots can front run your transaction and drain your wallet before your transaction goes through.

So what do we do?