Development

This section collects material from the ongoing development of Leios that does not fit elsewhere on this site: not the general introduction in About Leios, and not one of the interactive tools. It is a working area for results and analyses as they come out of development, so expect its contents to change as the work progresses.

Currently, it contains:

• Protocol status of the Leios components across the stages from CIP to assurance. For a more detailed account, see the development status report from 2026 Q2.
• Parameter graduation, the plans for stepping the Leios protocol parameters up on the network.
• Benchmark reports of Leios node release candidates, as run by the Performance & Tracing team on the cardano-node benchmarking cluster.
• Cost estimator, which projects the operating costs of a Leios node from confirmed transaction throughput.

The Research and development section holds historic material from the research phase of the project. It remains a valid reference wherever it has not been superseded by material in this section.

For the protocol specification, design documents, papers and presentations, see the Resources page.