Week 30 · 2026

Highlights

A heavy build week: 65 commits across four deliverables, with most of the code landing behind the scenes.

On cardano-init (D3), Scalus became a first-class citizen: we merged its on-chain, off-chain, and fullstack templates, so the multi-role support we mapped out last week is now something you can actually scaffold. We also gave the README a proper pass for clarity and usage examples, and opened a PR to verify the dependency installers so the tooling a project pulls in is trustworthy out of the box.

contracts-library (D5) was where the volume was: 34 commits, heads-down on feature branches as last month's cataloged explorations turn into real, ready-to-audit contract code.

Over on the Cardano Foundation's Developer Portal (D4), the onboarding flow took shape fast: paulobressan merged the scaffold that last week was still a proposal, then opened the first beginner lecture (with runnable Mesh examples) and an extractRegion helper that lets docs embed snippets straight from tested example code, so what learners copy is guaranteed to actually run.

The pledge also gained real momentum this week (D1): signing is now clearer and more convenient, the project picked up an Apache 2.0 license, and four new names came on board — most notably the MeshJS Team, alongside Mladen Lamesevic, Thiago Nunes, and Rupert Whitehead. Under the hood, the tracker itself kept improving (9 commits), including backfilling the open PRs it had been missing.