The Cardano Foundation has released a comprehensive new roadmap on September 23, 2025, signed by CEO Frederik Gregaard, outlining a strategic shift toward mass adoption. A key element is a proposed allocation of 50 million ADA (approximately $40.5 million) to a liquidity fund aimed at expanding stablecoin adoption, decentralized finance (DeFi) activity, and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization on the Cardano network. The Foundation emphasized that deeper liquidity is a critical need for the ecosystem, with the fund expected to generate about 4% annual returns for the treasury through increased trading volumes and total value locked (TVL).
Revenue from these protocols will be split, with 15% converted to ADA and returned to the treasury monthly, while 85% remains in protocols to compound growth. The roadmap also includes scaling the Web3 adoption team to target exchange integrations and enterprise use cases, with plans to commit 2 million ADA ($1.62 million) to the Venture Hub program by 2026, partnering with Draper University, Techstars, and CV Labs to support startups.
In RWA, Cardano has already piloted $10 million in tokenized assets with MembersCap and will now focus on formal standards like CIP-0113 and CIP-0143, alongside integrating Cloudflare's x402 payments framework via Masumi Network. Marketing efforts will see a 12% budget increase in 2026 for events like TOKEN2049 and Consensus, while governance decentralization will involve delegating 220 million ADA to eleven new Adoption and Operations DReps, reducing the Foundation's self-delegation to 80 million ADA. Charles Hoskinson, Cardano's founder, commented on X, calling it a "good start" but stressing the need for a community-elected board.