July 2025 Status Update

July 2025 Status Update

The Cardano Incentives Working Group is currently working on 5 initiatives. All the initiatives are related and can (or should) work together. Please also see our RSS tool to see how these changes will affect the network.


Current initiatives status

Updated July 6, 2025 

CIP-50 rebirth 

  • Status: With CIP editors and being formally submitted by IOE to IO Research for further evaluation.
  • original CIP-50

minPoolCost

Reverting slot battle changes back from B hash to L hash 

  • Status: Additional research by Alexander Esgen has been posted. Steps forward are being evaluated by the Ledger team and other working groups.
  • Alexander Esgen’s evaluation

Sticky Stake / Stake Mobility

  • Status: Brainstorming new CIP to improve stake mobility
  • CPS

Increasing K to 1,000

  • Status: Gov action currently being drafted. Evaluating if other changes like CIP-50 /minPoolCost should come first or if they should be done together.