Well, strap in, space travelers, because the good folks at Cardano have decided the universe wasn’t complicated enough. They’ve just rolled out not one, not two, but five new Plutus CIPs, because apparently, the existing ones were just too mainstream. These CIPs-CIP-109, CIP-132, CIP-133, CIP-138, and CIP-153-sound like the kind of thing you’d find on a galactic menu for advanced cryptographic operations, but no, they’re just here to make Plutus Core even more… core-y.
On May 8, the Cardano Preview test network decided to hard fork itself into Protocol Version 11, which is basically the blockchain equivalent of upgrading from a tricycle to a spaceship. According to Intersect, this means the new primitives are now available for testing, which is great news if you’re the kind of person who finds joy in testing primitives. (We’re looking at you, developers.)
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On May 8, 2026 00:00 UTC, the Cardano Preview test network hard forked to Protocol Version 11. This means the new primitives introduced by the prior Plutus Cost Model parameter update are now available for testing. The new Plutus primitives are defined in… well, a lot of technical jargon that would make even a hyperintelligent shade of the color blue scratch its head.
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Meanwhile, Node v11.0.1 has been fully released and is mainnet hard fork-ready, because nothing says “progress” like a hard fork. The DB-Sync 13.7.0.5 has also been promoted to a full mainnet-ready release, which is great news for anyone who’s ever wanted their database to sync with the kind of precision usually reserved for Swiss watches.
Cardano: Now with More Plutus!
The upcoming intra-era hard fork, creatively named the van Rossem Hard Fork (because why not name it after a Dutch painter?), is set to enhance Plutus performance, ledger consistency, and node security. Plutus, for those not in the know, is Cardano’s smart contract language, based on Haskell, which is basically the Latin of programming languages-nobody really uses it, but everyone respects it.
Thanks to this upgrade, all built-in functions will be available across Plutus V1, V2, and V3, which is like giving everyone in the orchestra the same sheet music. The new built-ins include:
- CIP-138 | Array type: Because who doesn’t love efficient, native on-chain array handling?
- CIP-153 | MaryEraValue type: Optimized multi-asset value operations, because why do things the hard way?
- CIP-109 | Modular exponentiation builtin: Critical for advanced crypto, or as we like to call it, “math so hard it makes your brain hurt.”
- CIP-132 | dropList builtin: Efficient list manipulation, because lists are just too long these days.
- CIP-133 | Multi-scalar multiplication over BLS12-381: Useful for zero-knowledge proofs, or as we like to call it, “the magic trick of cryptography.”
All these new built-ins will be introduced across all Plutus versions, which is expected to increase script performance, reduce execution cost, and generally make developers feel like they’re living in the future. Or at least, a slightly more efficient version of the present.
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2026-05-12 16:06