PANews reported on January 29 that Mike Ward, Chief Product Officer of Cardano, released a 2025 roadmap in the official blog, which disclosed that Cardano intends to explore becoming the smart contract layer of Bitcoin, integrating the two networks to unlock new features and liquidity. In addition, the 2025 plan also includes evaluating merged mining and enabling Bitcoin users to interact with Defi on Cardano. According to Cardano, the network hopes to support billions of users by 2030 by lowering the entry barrier while maintaining decentralization, affordability and security, and to achieve the aggregation of multiple transactions into a single batch for verification, reducing network load while retaining security.