Learn Cardano Podcast

Learn Cardano Podcast

The Learn Cardano Podcast is about the Cardano blockchain and all its aspects, from staking, stake pool operations, smart contracts, and coding in Plutus to voting in Project Catalyst. If you have heard about Bitcoin and Ethereum but haven’t heard of Cardano, this podcast is for you. We’ll have news updates from the project, interviews with key Cardano leadership, community members, stake pool operators and step-by-step how-to guides to understand aspects of Cardano better. Subscribe and leave us a 5-star review. Find all of the show notes at https://learncardano.io. DISCLAIMER: This content is for informational and educational purposes only and is not financial, investment, or legal advice. I am not affiliated with, nor compensated by, the project discussed—no tokens, payments, or incentives received. I do not hold a stake in the project, including private or future allocations. All views are my own, based on public information. Always do your own research and consult a licensed advisor before investing. Crypto investments carry high risk, and past performance is no guarantee of future results. I am not responsible for any decisions you make based on this content. 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq8FhvxET2k Subscribe to the audio podcast: 🔗 https://bit.ly/learncardano-spotify 🔗 https://apple.co/3jEPM8C 🔗 https://learncardano.io/ Follow on Social: 🔗 https://x.com/learncardano 🔗 https://facebook.com/learncardano

Episodes

July 3, 2026 33 mins
In this Cardano ADA news update, Peter covers the latest SecondFi recovery steps after the Yoroi/SecondFi wallet incident, including the asset recovery checker, support ticket process, hardware wallet migration guidance, and the temporary pause on Midnight Glacier Drop redemptions.

The episode also looks at Open USD, Brale, and the Cardano Foundation's pathway into the new stablecoin standard, plus the upcoming Catalyst pil...
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Australia's capital gains tax rules are changing from 1 July 2027, and the shift could matter for anyone holding crypto, shares, property or other investment assets. In this episode, Peter walks through what is changing, why the government is making the change, and how the move from the 50% CGT discount to indexation plus a 30% minimum tax floor may affect Australian crypto investors.

The episode covers the current CGT treat...
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Update on the SecondFi wallet exposure situation, including the latest official response, wallet safety guidance, recovery options, and the community tools being used to check whether a Cardano wallet may have been exposed.

Key takeaways:
- SecondFi says affected wallets should be treated as permanently compromised.
- Hardware wallets were not exposed in the same way as the affected hot-wallet flow.
- Users should a...
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Peter breaks down the latest SecondFi incident updates, why the issue was not a Cardano protocol hack, what affected users should avoid doing, how the white-hat recovery appears to have protected most funds, and why hardware wallets matter.

Key Takeaways:
- SecondFi says the security risk is at the address level and affected users should not restore their recovery phrase into another Cardano wallet.
- The incident appe...
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June 24, 2026 24 mins
Peter interviews Bryan Colligan and Eric Waisanen from AlphaGrowth about the Cardano Prime proposal, the missing DeFi infrastructure on Cardano, how liquidity incentives could work, and what transparency the community should expect before treasury funds are committed.

Key Takeaways:
- AlphaGrowth says its Cardano Prime work would begin with a deep audit of Cardano DeFi infrastructure, applications, and liquidity gaps.
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This Cardano news update covers several important ecosystem developments: a public warning around reported SecondFi wallet-drain activity, IOG's new Block 45 media push, Orion Fund and Draper/Cometa activity, and AlphaGrowth's PRIME programme for Cardano DeFi.

Peter also looks at practical DeFi infrastructure updates across Dano Finance, Fetch, Surge, Pyth Pro, and the van Rossem hard fork. The episode focuses on what builde...
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Australia's High Court is being asked to consider a deceptively simple question with huge consequences: is crypto property, or merely information controlled by private keys?

In this episode, Peter breaks down Poulton v Conrad, a dispute that began with Bitcoin purchased in 2013 and has grown into a major legal test for digital assets in Australia. The case raises questions about possession, control, conversion, taxation, cus...
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Australia's crypto Travel Rule starts on 1 July 2026, and it is already changing how Aussies move Bitcoin and other crypto off exchanges. In this episode, Peter breaks down what AUSTRAC's rule actually requires, why exchanges are adding extra verification, and what it could mean for withdrawals, deposits, cold storage, and financial privacy.

The key point is not that every blockchain transaction suddenly has your name writte...
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NuNet is building a decentralised compute and orchestration network where people can contribute spare CPU, GPU, RAM and other resources, while developers and organisations can deploy workloads across available infrastructure. In this episode, Peter talks with Jennifer from NuNet about the new NuNet Appliance and why it matters for making decentralised compute more practical for everyday users.

The conversation covers how NuN...
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Peras is one of the most important Cardano upgrades to understand if you care about real user experience, not just theoretical throughput. In this episode, Peter breaks down what finality actually means on Cardano, why transactions can look complete long before they are deeply settled, and how that affects people moving assets across chains.

The episode focuses on two practical examples: the USDCX bridge between Ethereum and...
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Cardano Foundation has partnered with the Brazilian Olympic Committee on a three-year roadmap focused on sports innovation, and this episode breaks down why that matters beyond the headline. Peter walks through the practical use cases being discussed, including digital identity, certification, fan engagement, equipment tracking, and on-chain governance.

Rather than treating this as vague adoption theatre, the episode looks a...
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Peter explains why he is stepping down as a Cardano DRep and why, in his view, the current governance process is not working well enough to justify the time, energy, and scrutiny it demands. He walks through the practical reasons behind that decision, including lobbying for votes, unclear conflict-of-interest boundaries, public backlash, fatigue, and the growing burden of proposal review.

The episode also looks at the broade...
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Peter digs into Trivolve Tech's forensic management system after it passed 100,000 on-chain transactions on Cardano mainnet. The episode looks at what the milestone actually represents, how the evidence workflow appears to use hashing and zero-knowledge proofs, and why it stands out as a live government-style deployment rather than another proof of concept.

Peter also connects the project to Trivolve Tech's broader work in I...
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In this episode, Peter sits down with Bartek from BikeID to unpack how bicycles can be given a persistent digital identity that follows them through manufacturing, retail, ownership, servicing and resale. The conversation covers why the bike industry still lacks a common identification standard, how BikeID uses NFC and RFID tags as the physical interface, and why blockchain helps remove the need for a central authority to validate ...
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Zcash's Orchard vulnerability has reignited one of the most important conversations in crypto: why formal verification and high-assurance engineering matter when real value is at stake. In this episode, Peter breaks down what the disclosed Zcash flaw could have allowed, why privacy systems create a harder audit problem, and why this story reached far beyond one chain.

The discussion then turns to Cardano's long-standing secu...
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Leios is Cardano's scaling solution for the future. It's basically an upgrade of the layer one to make it faster.

What you’ll learn:
• Leios is Cardano's scaling solution for the future.
• It's basically an upgrade of the layer one to make it faster.
• And what it will do, will propel Cardano to be on par with our competitors in terms of throughput and capacity to support more and more app…
• I'm ple...
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Charles Hoskinson recently addressed the challenges facing Cardano in a candid video, highlighting the limits of his influence and the realities of on-chain governance. In this episode we explore what the shift to community-driven decision making really means for the ecosystem, the treasury funding debates, and why several projects are struggling in the current market.

We break down the governance era, the role of D-Reps, Pr...
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TxPipe's new Tx3 protocol aims to give Cardano a unified, machine-readable interface so developers can build intent-based experiences like Near Intents. In this interview, Santi explains how Tx3 works and why it's critical infrastructure for the ecosystem.

In this episode we cover:
• What intent-based trading actually means and why it matters
• How Tx3 creates a standardised API layer across all Cardano dApps
• Why ...
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Cardano native projects are pumping hard while the broader market is red. In this news update we cover Strike Perps treasury proposal, Indigo v3 launch, USDM + Pyth integration, Charli3 winding down, Surf DeFi liquidity injection, and much more.

🕒 CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro - Cardano Projects Pumping
1:45 Strike Perps & Treasury Proposal
5:20 Unifold Fiat Onramp
7:10 Surf DeFi & Treasury Liquidity
9:45 USDM ...
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In this episode, I take you through how I set up a Cardano node at home using a low-cost HP Elite mini PC, why I decided to do it this way, and how I’m thinking about turning it into a machine that can help pay for itself over time.

The main goal here was to reduce the cost of running relay infrastructure for my Cardano stake pool, but in doing that, I can also use this node for other things, too, like a private submit...
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