Roadmap & Reports

Dingo is Blink Labs' Go implementation of a Cardano node.

This page tracks where the work came from, what exists today and what the treasury-funded roadmap is intended to deliver for DReps, SPOs and developers.

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Dingo's Path

Past work built the pieces. Dingo connects them into a Go Cardano node. Future funding takes it from serious implementation to production-grade block producer.

Since 2021

  • Blink Labs builds Cardano infrastructure in Go.
  • gOuroboros mini-protocol foundation.
  • Apollo, Ogmigo, Kugo and UTxO RPC Go SDK support.

Prior Catalyst + self-funded work

  • Initial Dingo development.
  • Plutigo Plutus evaluator.
  • ouroboros-mock conformance framework.
  • Archive-node storage, proxying and pruning.
  • Adder indexing/event pipeline.

Proposal Baseline

  • Dingo operated as a Cardano relay node, syncing across eras.
  • 314 conformance tests passing.
  • Plutus V1/V2/V3 at 100% conformance.
  • ChainSync, mempool, governance transaction support.
  • VRF/KES block forging primitives.
  • Preview block-production.

Q2 2026: Complete

  • ✓ Praos consensus completion.
  • ✓ Hard fork combinator.
  • ✓ Genesis bootstrap.
  • ✓ Stable preview/preprod sync.
  • ✓ Preprod block production.
  • ✓ Linear Leios prototype with IO Engineering.
  • ✓ Musashi Dojo developer environment.

Q3 2026: In Progress

  • Operational hardening.
  • Storage scalability at mainnet scale.
  • UTxO set management.
  • Long-running stability.
  • Security audit kickoff.

Q4 2026: Planned

  • Dijkstra readiness.
  • Plutigo V4.
  • Leios consensus integration.
  • Node-to-Client and LocalStateQuery gaps.

Ecosystem 2026 target

  • Dijkstra hard fork expected by end of year.

Q1 2027: Target

  • Audit completion.
  • Mainnet block-production readiness.
  • Mithril integration.
  • Operator documentation.
  • Ecosystem integration.

Funding Use

A simple view of how treasury funding moved from ADA approval into the USDCx contract used for Dingo delivery. Transaction-level records and formal progress updates live in the public journal and reports linked below.

Received

6,900,000 ADA

Treasury withdrawal approved for the Dingo roadmap.

Kraken OTC Conversion

5,630,001 ADA → 1,531,360.27 USDC

Includes a 1 ADA test transaction plus the 5,630,000 ADA OTC trade. Recorded in the public journal.

Returned To Treasury Contract

1,531,307.86 USDCx

Bulk USDCx bridge used for vendor funding and treasury remainder. Separate test bridge: 99.99 USDCx.

Vendor Milestones Funded

1,528,333.33 USDCx

+ 370,000 ADA

This is configured for vendor milestone payments.

Treasury Remainder

2,974.53 USDCx Remaining amount after vendor milestone funding.

+ 900,001.18 ADA Contingency remains after vendor milestone funding.

Disbursed To Date

458,333.33 USDCx

+ 92,500 ADA

All claimed through recorded milestone claims.

Vendor Remaining

1,070,000.00 USDCx

+ 277,500 ADA