Cardano’s scaling roadmap took a concrete step forward after Anastasia Labs CEO Philip DiSarro reported on September 16 that Midgard—the project’s native Layer-2—now runs a “functional node” with live pathways for settling state on Layer-1 and finalizing state commitments.

In a post on X, DiSarro summarized the status succinctly: “Update on Midgard: We have a functional node, with support for state settlement on the L1, and state commitment finalization. You can transact on the L2 at lightning speeds with low latency and the results are displayed in your wallet (a fork of Lace ) in real-time.”

He added that the next engineering checkpoints are “the delivery of L1 deposits and withdrawals, and the forced transaction inclusion mechanism,” concluding, “Things are coming together nicely

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