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Cardano's foundational research overview
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Cardano's foundational research overview

Author: Olga Hryniuk - Technical Writer Summary: Here’s the first of a series of blog posts taking a closer look at the research underpinning Cardano Article: Since its inception in 2015, the Cardano project had one clear goal: to alter the way cryptocurrencies are designed and developed. Instead of having a single, authoritative whitepaper, the project...
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Increasing the transaction throughput of Cardano
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BlogTransactions per second+ 2

Increasing the transaction throughput of Cardano

Original author: Matthias Fitzi - Research Fellow Originally published on IOHK.io: March 21st, 2022 Summary: Diffusion pipelining - scheduled for this summer - will increase the budget for block propagation and validation times, allowing for larger blocks and increased transaction throughput. Here’s a technical research perspective. (Along with an introd...
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Weekly development report as of 2022-06-24
olga.hryniuk@iohk.io
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 2

Weekly development report as of 2022-06-24

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the node, ledger, and consensus teams continued preparing for the Vasil hard fork. They tagged a new node v.1.35.0-rc4, which updates the ledger to the latest master, brings issue fixes, and includes Plutus V2 reference script types. This version of the node will likely be the version that will be used for the Cardano testnet hard...
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Overview of the research enabling smart contract support on Cardano
olga.hryniuk@iohk.io
ResearchCardano+ 6

Overview of the research enabling smart contract support on Cardano

Author: Olga Hryniuk - Technical Writer Summary: Taking a closer look at Cardano’s research, part 2. Here’s more on Cardano’s innovative EUTXO model and how it facilitates more efficient smart contracts  Article: Our previous blog post discussed the research underpinning some of the core elements of Cardano, including staking, delegation, and reward sha...
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Your Cardano onboarding guide
Olga Hryniuk
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Your Cardano onboarding guide

Your Cardano onboarding guide New to Cardano? No worries, here’s a list of essentials to get you started Disclaimer: Nothing in this article is intended to be professional advice, including without limitation, financial, investment, legal or tax advice. IO Global is not responsible for your use of or reliance on any information in this article. Blockchain...
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Lace: speed, simplicity, and seamless flow
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Lace: speed, simplicity, and seamless flow

Author: Olga Hryniuk - Technical Writer Summary: IOG’s new light wallet – now in development – will help drive adoption by offering enhanced capability and ease of use to crypto users Article: Wallets allow crypto users to safely store and access their digital assets. They come in different forms, from desktop and mobile applications to hardware (USB-li...
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Cardano's foundational research overview
Morgan
ResearchOuroboros+ 3

Cardano's foundational research overview

Author: Olga Hryniuk - Technical Writer Summary: Here’s the first of a series of blog posts taking a closer look at the research underpinning Cardano Article: Since its inception in 2015, the Cardano project had one clear goal: to alter the way cryptocurrencies are designed and developed. Instead of having a single, authoritative whitepaper, the project...
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Weekly development report as of 2022-06-03
olga.hryniuk@iohk.io
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2022-06-03

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the node, ledger, and consensus teams continued preparing for the Vasil hard fork. Work is proceeding well. Getting into the final mile prior to the Vasil hard fork, the team’s focus now shifts towards tracking weekly milestones which will inform the next steps. The next key milestone is to achieve a new node release for the Vasi...
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Weekly development report as of 2022-05-20
olga.hryniuk@iohk.io
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2022-05-20

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the node, ledger, and consensus teams continued preparing for June’s Vasil hard fork. They worked on the new node version, DB Sync dependencies, and benchmarking. As diffusion pipelining had been merged to master, the teams continued working on testing and bug fixes. They finalized logging improvements and are now preparing for th...
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Weekly development report as of 2022-05-06

olga.hryniuk@iohk.io
DevelopmentWeekly development updates+ 1
CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the node (ledger, consensus, node API & CLI) and Plutus teams continued preparing for June’s Vasil hard fork. The upcoming pipelining upgrade is undergoing benchmarking before being merged into master. The DevOps team worked on a Genesis generator that creates Byron and Shelley files with the same parameters. They also improved t...
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