Cardano Foundation Unveils Strategic Roadmap for Enhanced Adoption
The Cardano Foundation has unveiled a comprehensive six-point roadmap aimed at advancing decentralized finance, Web3 innovations, real-world asset integrations, and governance decentralization. Signed by CEO Frederik Gregaard and dated September 23, 2025, this strategic plan focuses on bolstering liquidity, setting standards, and refining organizational priorities to pave the way for Cardano’s future development and growth.
Advancing Cardano’s Adoption Strategy
Boosting DeFi Liquidity
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Central to the roadmap is an initiative dedicated to enhancing DeFi engagement by improving stablecoin liquidity. The Foundation has pledged a substantial eight-figure ADA investment to stabilize liquidity in pivotal Cardano stablecoin ventures through various channels. While this initiative extends beyond its original mission, it aims to streamline Cardano’s on- and off-ramps, with results anticipated in the coming six to twelve months. Additionally, the organization supports community-driven proposals to fortify DeFi liquidity, highlighting the “Stablecoin DeFi Liquidity Budget” as a continuing collaboration effort.
Expanding Web3 Integration
The roadmap also emphasizes Web3 adoption, acknowledging the technical challenges posed by Cardano’s distinct architecture compared to EVM-based systems. To address this, the Foundation is expanding its Web3 team with two new roles focused on integrations, listings, and real-world assets (RWA), among other areas.
Formalizing Venture Support
Building on the success of the Cardano Venture Hub pilot, the Foundation plans to transform it into a comprehensive Venture Program for startups and an Enterprise Enablement Program for established businesses. This will include direct investments, technical advisory services, coaching, and consultancy. The Foundation is committing up to 2 million ADA to the Venture Hub in 2026 and will collaborate with Draper University, Techstars, and CV VC to broaden adoption-focused initiatives.
Real-World Asset Integration
The Cardano Foundation emphasizes Cardano’s native asset model, deterministic fees, and sustainability profile as ideal for real-world asset integration. It has announced a $10 million RWA launch on Cardano in partnership with MembersCap. The Foundation’s near-term goals include promoting CIP-0113 and CIP-0143 standards to enable interoperable, programmable tokens on Cardano. Collaboration with Masumi to implement the x402 payments framework for agent-to-agent transactions is also underway.
Expanding Marketing and Demand Generation
In response to evolving regulatory and industry dynamics, the Foundation plans to increase its 2026 demand-generation budget by 12%, encompassing inbound marketing, content creation, paid media, events, and more. Initiatives include participation in TOKEN2049 and Consensus events, collaboration on the Africa Tech Summit 2026, and a Digital Asset 2026 event in London, alongside a coordinated developer onboarding pipeline with post-hackathon support.
Enhancing Governance Decentralization
The roadmap’s sixth pillar focuses on governance decentralization. Building on prior initiatives, the Foundation will delegate an additional 220 million ADA to eleven selected DReps across new Adoption and Operations categories, while reducing its own DRep self-delegation to 80 million ADA. Methodology details will follow, with the aim of broadening the pool of informed governance participants. To support this transition, the Foundation will sunset its longstanding SPO delegation strategy, redirecting resources to fully pledged Foundation pools for ecosystem growth. The Foundation expresses gratitude to the nearly 400 pools previously supported and reaffirms its commitment to transparency throughout the implementation process.
Cardano’s founder, Charles Hoskinson, responded positively to the announcement, appreciating the Foundation’s progress towards independence and advocating for a community-elected board to complete the journey toward reconciliation.
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