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Apr 30, 2026

Scalus Intersect Budget Update - Milestone 5 Delivered

Progress update on Lantr's Intersect-funded Scalus project. Milestone 5 delivers advanced UPLC optimisation techniques: a typed UPLC expression builder (Scalus' answer to Plutarch), three SIR-to-UPLC lowering backends, Scala 3 macros for compile-time optimisation, automatic Plutus Data derivation, and representation-level performance work delivering up to 50% fee savings on real validators.