By Isaac • July 17, 2026 6:06 pm •
Cardano is about to find out whether decentralization can survive contact with a release schedule.
Input Output, the company that built the network’s original software stack, says it will begin transferring responsibility for Cardano’s core engineering to outside specialist teams in August. The handoff covers the Haskell node, Plutus smart-contract platform, Daedalus wallet, Hydra scaling system and developer relations.
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The transition is supposed to continue into 2027. It is not complete today, and the public roadmap says its dates are indicative while some agreements are still being finalized.
That distinction matters.
Moving protocol votes to a community is one form of decentralization. Moving the code, release authority, maintenance burden and incident response away from a founding
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