Cardano's Shelley Upgrade Turns Six: Celebrating a Decade of Proof-of-Stake Maturity

Cardano's proof-of-stake network has reached a significant milestone, marking six years since the Shelley upgrade introduced staking to the ecosystem.

The upgrade transitioned Cardano from a federated system to community-operated stake pools, allowing users to participate directly in network consensus through delegation without surrendering custody of their assets.

Shelley's non-custodial staking model has remained central to Cardano's governance and security model over the past six years, with the network continuing to influence how decentralized networks approach validator participation.