Hey Cardanians! Welcome aboard the Weekly Cardano Digest #110!

We've filtered through all the noise to distill crucial updates into a breezy, 5-minute read. No need for you to sift through endless info — we've got you covered. Ready to delve into this week's top Cardano news? Let’s dive in.

Here are the topics of the week:

• 🤖 Surge Goes Live on Cardano Mainnet

• 🏗️ Iagon and Fireblocks Bring Tier-1 Institutional Infrastructure to Cardano

• 🌘 Midnight Partners with AlphaTON Capital to Bring Private AI to Telegram

• Weekly Development Report

• & More!

🤖 Surge Goes Live on Cardano Mainnet Group to Launch Cardano ($ADA) Futures

Surge is now live on Cardano mainnet, bringing user-friendly, sovereign algorithmic trading to the ecosystem. Surge is a browser-based protocol that allows anyone to build and deploy Cardano DEX trading bots without writing code.

The protocol is designed around two core objectives: empowering users with self-sovereign algorithmic trading tools, and maximizing Cardano KPIs such as transactions, DEX volume, and active wallets, all while minimizing the ADA cost per unit of activity.

By lowering the barrier to automated trading, Surge can significantly increase on-chain activity and liquidity efficiency. It represents a new class of tooling where sophisticated trading strategies become accessible to everyday users, reinforcing Cardano’s DeFi stack with more active, capital-efficient participation.

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🏗️ Iagon and Fireblocks Bring Tier-1 Institutional Infrastructure to Cardano

Iagon has announced a major collaboration with Fireblocks, delivering full $ADA and Cardano Native Tokens (CNT) support into the institutional infrastructure used by 2,400+ global organizations.

Fireblocks is integrating a complete Cardano stack, including CNT transfers, balances and history, ADA staking and voting, unified SDKs, and webhooks for exchanges and custodians. Under the hood, this solution will rely on Iagon’s enterprise nodes and Insights API, placing Iagon at the center of how institutions interact with Cardano.

This stop-gap integration, expected to complete by February 2026, makes Cardano immediately operational for banks, fintechs, custodians, and major trading venues. It also opens the door for CNT listings on platforms like Revolut and Bitvavo, strengthening Cardano’s institutional access layer and long-term adoption path.

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🌘 Midnight Partners with AlphaTON Capital to Bring Private AI to Telegram

Midnight has announced a strategic partnership with AlphaTON Capital to deploy privacy-preserving AI agents on Telegram, targeting a potential reach of nearly 1 billion users.

The initiative focuses on enabling AI interactions that protect user data by default, leveraging Midnight’s confidential computation and zero-knowledge-based privacy architecture. AI agents can operate without exposing sensitive information, a key requirement for compliant and large-scale deployment.

This partnership moves Midnight firmly into real-world application territory. By combining messaging platforms, artificial intelligence, and blockchain-based privacy infrastructure, Cardano’s privacy layer positions itself at the intersection of AI, compliance, and mass-market distribution.

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