Odaily: Cardano Card will cease service on October 31, 2026, though existing cardholders can continue to use it normally until then. Its partner Wirex is transitioning to a non-custodial model and deactivating its custodial infrastructure, with the partnership between the two parties set to terminate on the same date. Cardano Card stated that more details regarding the next steps for the program will be announced soon.

Odaily News: The Cardano Foundation has announced the spin-off of its digital identity project Veridian into an independent company, with its shares tokenized based on CIP-0113, a newly launched programmable token standard on the Cardano blockchain.It is reported that Veridian becomes the first company to adopt Cardano's programmable token standard for equity tokenization. Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Cardano Foundation and Chairman of Veridian, stated that the company has issued a total of 1 million shares, with the majority already tokenized. However, these tokenized shares are not currently available for public sale.Headquartered in Switzerland, Veridian aims to provide digital identity verification tools for governments, enterprises, and AI agents, helping users prove their identity and verify online behavior. The company is led by Thomas A. Mayfield, a blockchain engineer who previously oversaw decentralized trust and identity solutions at the Cardano Foundation, and plans to seek strategic investors in 2027. (CoinDesk)

Odaily News: The Cardano Foundation has introduced the CIP-0113 token standard, allowing issuers of regulated assets to restrict recipients based on predefined rules and to freeze, seize, or transfer token holdings. The standard enables issuers to implement such controls without requiring a hard fork of the Cardano network.CIP-0113 requires compliance checks to be executed on every transfer, including identity verification and sanctions list screening. Issuers can choose or customize rules and update them as regulatory requirements change; under the authorization mechanism, relevant parties can transfer tokens without the holder's consent. (CoinDesk)

Odaily星球日报讯 加密分析师 Ai 发文表示，Cardano（ADA）期货市场需求正在降温，未平仓合约过去一周下降 9%，从 19.9 亿美元降至 18.1 亿美元，表明交易员正在减少杠杆敞口。同时巨鲸似乎也在获利了结，自 9 月 20 日以来已减持约 9000 万枚 ADA，价值约 2250 万美元，进一步增加近期卖压。Ai 进一步指出，ADA 日线图于 9 月 26 日出现卖出信号，此后下跌 10%，回调可能尚未结束。日线图上的平行通道显示，0.24 美元是关键中部支撑位；若失守，ADA 可能进一步跌向通道下沿约 0.21 美元。若 0.21 美元守住，则可能成为下一买入机会，上方目标看向通道顶部约 0.28 美元。

Odaily News: Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras is testing the Cardano blockchain in two research projects to track environmental claims related to sustainable aviation fuel and partially renewable Diesel R.The aviation fuel project aims to prevent companies from double-counting the same emissions reductions; the Diesel R project will record fuel production, transportation, and usage stages to support emissions reporting. Both projects are still in the research phase, and no timeline for expanded deployment or the scale of fuel coverage has been disclosed. (CoinDesk)

Odaily News: Cardano developers can build applications and AI agents that support payments in ADA and Cardano network tokens based on this suite, enabling AI agents to complete on-chain payments for services such as online data and computing resources. Cardano Foundation engineers have completed the relevant specifications and developed the client, server, and Facilitator responsible for verifying and submitting transactions; the first version supports TypeScript, with a Python version planned for release later.Currently, the Facilitator has only completed actual transaction testing on the Cardano pre-production network and is not yet running on the mainnet.

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Odaily News: Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson stated that over the next 5 to 10 years, cryptocurrency will deeply integrate with AI, and blockchain can solve AI's challenges in payments, alignment, and data provenance. OpenAI and Anthropic must achieve profitability at scale; individual models may be profitable, but pretraining costs are the main obstacle. Current data center construction is difficult to sustain, computing power spending cannot grow 10x every year, and global electricity supply cannot support it either. Hoskinson predicts that idle data centers will emerge in the future, and AI computing power will subsequently shift to local and edge models, integrating GPUs, phones, and other devices through distributed computing networks, with crypto technology handling coordination and settlement functions. By 2030, public chain assets could reach $10 trillion, with 1 billion new users.

Odaily reports: Cardano development organization Input Output Group (IOG) stated that its YouTube channel on Friday livestreamed a video suspected of being AI-tampered, in which Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson promoted a cryptocurrency giveaway event.The livestream directed viewers to scan a QR code and promised to "double their wealth." IOG reminded users to avoid interacting with the YouTube channel until further notice, and not to click links, send funds, or share personal information. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily News, August 21 — According to SoSoValue data, the crypto market sectors have risen for two consecutive days, with 24-hour gains generally ranging from approximately 3% to 11%. Among them, the PayFi sector led with an 11.46% increase. Within the sector, XRP rose 16.16%, and Telcoin (TEL) gained 13.49%. Meanwhile, Bitcoin (BTC) climbed 8.26%, breaking through $75,000, and Ethereum (ETH) rose 4.67%, surpassing $2,300.Additionally, MAG7.ssi rose 7.58%, DEFI.ssi gained 7.01%, and MEME.ssi increased 9.01%.In other sectors, the Meme sector rose 7.48% over 24 hours, with Pump.fun (PUMP) up 21.13%; the Layer2 sector gained 5.95%, with Stacks (STX) up 14.29%; the CeFi sector rose 5.26%, with NEXO up 10.39%; the DeFi sector gained 5.19%, with Ethena (ENA) up 27.81%; and the Layer1 sector rose 4.69%, with Cardano (ADA) up 10.54%.The crypto sector indices reflecting historical sector performance show that the ssiPayFi, ssiMeme, and ssiMAG7 indices rose 14.39%, 9.48%, and 7.23%, respectively.