Cardano's 2025 Roadmap Explores Integration With Bitcoin

According to PANews, Cardano's Chief Product Officer, Mike Ward, has unveiled the 2025 roadmap in an official blog post. The roadmap outlines Cardano's plans to explore becoming a smart contract layer for Bitcoin, aiming to integrate the two networks to unlock new functionalities and liquidity. The 2025 agenda also includes evaluating merged mining and enabling Bitcoin users to interact with decentralized finance (DeFi) on Cardano. Cardano has further disclosed its ambition to support billions of users by 2030. This goal involves lowering entry barriers while maintaining decentralization, affordability, and security. The network plans to achieve this by aggregating multiple transactions into a single batch for verification, thereby reducing network load while preserving security.