Week 35 · 2026

Highlights

Two new explorations opened: DAO and Soulbound Tokens (D5)

contracts-library was the week's center of gravity — 52 commits and two fresh explorations moving from the catalog tracker into real design work.

• DAO governance (#44, Sofia Bobbiesi). A full Aiken exploration, not a sketch: separate proposal / stake / vote validators, a settings-driven design (get_dao_settings), proposal- and vote-minting policies with datum checks, and an end-to-end test suite running against Yaci DevKit. Most of the 52-commit churn lives here — successive refactors tightening the vote/stake logic, an unlock-timing fix for the voting phase, clearer parameter naming, and design docs with transaction diagrams.

Two reusable-primitive candidates entering active design in the same week is exactly the cadence the library (D5) is aiming for.

Intermediate onboarding lectures land on the Developer Portal (D4)

The 59-commit surge on Cardano Foundation's Developer Portal is Paulo Bressan building out the intermediate onboarding lecture series: what is a validator, datum & redeemer, transaction context, parameters, validator purposes, and testing — plus design lectures 10–13, a reworked intermediate introduction, and a vesting walkthrough with lock-and-claim diagrams. A coherent, guided teaching track — precisely the kind of material the Developer HUB (D4) exists to produce.

cardano-init: a quiet hardening week (D3)

After last week's release blitz, cardano-init (D3) had a deliberately quiet one — a single merged PR from Chris Gianelloni (wolf31o2, Blink Labs): stop logging environment-derived values (provider URLs, network) in the MeshJS, Evolution, and Yaci template output, keeping the readiness and failure messages but dropping the sensitive bits, with generated snapshots refreshed (#81). A small, correct security fix — and a second external contribution in as many weeks.

The tracker (D1)

devx-updates itself moved only for its own plumbing this week — gathering W34's activity and landing that week's highlights.