Key notes
- The founder of Cardano is now a member of the Starstream working group.
- Midnight, Lace and Hydra recently put Cardano under the spotlight with unique innovations.
- The ultimate objective remains to give Cardano a leading role in the growing push of Bitcoin Defi.
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,,The founder Charles Hoskinson suggested the role that Starstream would play in the future of the Blockchain of layer 1.. Although he did not share any details, the chief of cryptography set out to inform his disciples that “Starstream has the potential to become a central element of the future of Cardano”.
Hoskinson joins the Starstream working group
Recently, Charles Hoskinson joined the Starstream working group. This decision marks a growing trend among institutions to improve the performance of blockchains through new execution environments. Sébastien Guillemot, co-founder of the manufacturer of the Crypto, DCSPark ecosystem and early defender of the Starstream initiative, confirmed his involvement with a position on X.
In his article, Guillemot also noted that the Starstream working group has increased considerably in two weeks. It capped the increase to around 50%, suggesting growing interest among institutional customers.
Welcome to the last member of the Starstream working group !!
UTXO-ST ZKVM becomes very popular!
The working group increased by 50% in 2 weeks 👀 pic.twitter.com/ydf7oibni2
– Sébastien Guillemot (@Sebastingllmt) May 7, 2025
Starstream is a new Ethereum Virtual Machine Virtual Machine (ZK) based on UTXO. It should provide simpler and more powerful integrations compared to previous versions. Guillemot has published a video on X demonstrating how the design of this virtual machine based on UTXO aligns with ZK cryptography, which is largely recognized as a major progression of the calculation preserving confidentiality.
Presentation of Starstream: Our new ZKVM!
Our new design for a virtual machine based on UTXO which is:
✅ Significantly more powerful
✅ simpler
ASSSE WITH ZK CRYPTOGRAPHOverview video ↓ pic.twitter.com/qbdpsluo6z
– Sébastien Guillemot (@Sebastingllmt) March 8, 2025
Cardano has an existing UTXO (Eutxo) UTXO model, but has encountered certain implementation challenges, in particular with advanced cryptography. This setback is supported with Starstream, which uses a virtual machine based on Weba Soucre which generates ZK proof for each intelligent contract interaction to resolve them.
In this way, the calculations are verified effectively without having to reveal underlying data, which ultimately directly approach the previous limitations. With an almost free batch of transactions and simplified use cases, including oracles, games, active active world and stablescoins, the system also contributes to improving performance.
Cardano Midnight and other progress under the spotlight
In addition to this integration, Cardano has made other notable progress. Cardano Midnight Network Sidechain has gained significant land in recent months. As a protocol, well-focused on data protection and confidentiality, this side chain could serve as a fundamental platform for the program program based on blockchain, according to the projection of Hoskinson.
Its optimism is fueled by the characteristics of midnight confidentiality, programmability and interoperability, which, according to Hoskinson, is essential to provide traditional stock markets on blockchain systems.
Cardano’s light portfolio lace also hosted a new iteration nicknamed version 1.22. This technical step, which is delivered with the native support of Bitcoin (BTC), was deployed to users as part of its beta phase. The link with Bitcoin marks the first major portfolio foray into a multi-chain system. Users can send, receive and manage Bitcoin assets directly from the lace interface.
This is a notable expansion of the usefulness of the lace portfolio beyond the Cardano ecosystem.
On the one hand, Cardano plans to integrate Hydra with Lightning Network to create a bridge without confidence for Bitcoin decentralized Finance (DEFI). Hoskinson once shared a three -year calendar which allows large institutions to settle in the Bitcoin DEFI space, facilitated by the unique infrastructure of Cardano.
He sees the possibility that an ETF Bitcoin offering DEFI yields could increase shareholders’ demand.
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