Cardano developer Input Output is handing over control of its core blockchain infrastructure to external teams, reducing the network’s reliance on the company that built it, Input Output announced Friday.
Input Output said the handover is the next phase of Cardano’s decentralization. It covers Cardano’s Haskell node, Plutus smart contract platform, Daedalus wallet, Hydra scaling technology and developer relations.
Specialist companies include Se7en Labs, a development agency specializing in Solana blockchain infrastructure, and Teragone, a specialist software development and cryptographic research team leading the development of Mithril, a stake-based signature protocol for the Cardano blockchain. Both will take responsibility for some of the components. The handover begins in August and continues into 2027.
Cardano has already moved protocol decisions and governance to its community. Input Output said the next step is to spread the responsibility for developing and maintaining the software.
“The final phase of the Voltaire era is the full decentralization of node development and reference plans,” Input Output CEO and Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said in the statement.
