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Cardano Connective Series: How NFTCDN Powers Native Asset Display Across the Ecosystem
Esther Eze
cardanoBuilding on Cardano

Cardano Connective Series: How NFTCDN Powers Native Asset Display Across the Ecosystem

Author: Erfan Haque The Invisible Connective Tissue Blockchain ecosystems thrive on invisible connections—infrastructure layers that silently enable seamless experiences across dozens of applications. While users interact with polished interfaces, they rarely glimpse the complex systems binding the ecosystem together. In this Cardano Connective Series, we ...
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Navigating Cardano governance: essential tools you should know
Ivan Irakoze
cardanoGovernance tools

Navigating Cardano governance: essential tools you should know

Voltaire is here, bringing on-chain governance to Cardano. With the implementation of CIP-1694 and community-driven participation models through delegate representatives (DReps) and the constitution, governance is now active, evolving, and open to all. Voltaire puts the full power of decision-making directly into the hands of the community. As governance to...
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A list of community-built developer tools on Cardano
Ivan Irakoze
developertoolsdeveloperresources+ 3

A list of community-built developer tools on Cardano

Cardano’s community of developers is one of the strongest in blockchain. Many developers build and provide access to the tools and applications needed to improve Cardano. Here is a list of available tools and resources according to categories: NFT creation tools Anvil: a developer agency that provides advanced solutions for Web3 projects through various s...
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Cardano's EUTXO model: bringing deterministic predictability to blockchain
Ivan Irakoze
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Cardano's EUTXO model: bringing deterministic predictability to blockchain

Standfirst: Discover the simplicity, security, and power behind Cardano’s extended unspent transaction output (EUTXO) model Cardano builds on Bitcoin's unspent transaction output (UTXO) model, enhancing it for smart contracts and complex applications without sacrificing security or simplicity. This advanced version, extended UTXO (EUTXO), offers significant...
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Your Cardano onboarding guide
Olga Hryniuk
CardanoNFT+ 7

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 is one of the most influential...
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Performance tuning in Haskell: optimizing the Plutus evaluator
effectfully
Smart ContractsPlutus+ 1

Performance tuning in Haskell: optimizing the Plutus evaluator

Performance optimization often comes down to identifying subtle inefficiencies in the generated code. While reviewing the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) Core of the production evaluator, the Input | Output (IO) Plutus team discovered that a key function, safeIndexOne, was not getting inlined and was introducing unnecessary laziness. By addressing strictness ...
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IOG research overview
Olga Hryniuk
ResearchDecentralization+ 4

IOG research overview

Cardano is an open-source, proof-of-stake, public blockchain, the first to be founded on peer-reviewed research and development through evidence-based methods. This approach positions Cardano uniquely among other blockchain platforms. A set of the best practices, ideas, and research contributions formed Cardano’s foundation for building a secure, decentraliz...
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Cardano is the highest-ranking crypto brand
Cexplorer.io
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Cardano is the highest-ranking crypto brand

Cardano is highest-ranking crypto brand in the Top Brand Intimacy 2022 report. The surprising thing is that Cardano has a higher rating than Bitcoin. Almost every person on planet has heard of Bitcoin while Cardano is still unknown to the general public. What is it that has earned Cardano such a good rating?! About Methodology The MBLM Brand Intimacy Study...
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IOG and MLabs cooperate to develop a reference implementation of an auction using Hydra protocols
Olga Hryniuk
HydraScalability+ 1

IOG and MLabs cooperate to develop a reference implementation of an auction using Hydra protocols

日本語版はこちら Input Output Global and MLabs are collaborating on developing a reference implementation of an auction using Hydra protocols. The first outcome of this collaboration is a paper outlining possible approaches to the implementation of digital asset auctions using the Hydra Head protocol with respective advantages and current limitations. This post int...
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Six reasons why EUTXO wins
Fernando Sanchez
#cardanoEUTXO+ 6

Six reasons why EUTXO wins

Cardano features some of the most innovative elements of blockchain technology: Hydra and Mithril, for example – layer 2 solutions designed to enhance scalability. Or Cardano’s proof-of-stake consensus protocol, Ouroboros, whose various 'flavors' (Genesis, Praos, Peras, etc) ensure that the blockchain remains efficient and secure even under adversarial condi...
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"Houston, we have a problem"
Gimbalabs
andamio platformandamio.io+ 1

"Houston, we have a problem"

In one of her most recent interviews, Christina Gianelloni, COO of Blink Labs, founding member of PRAGMA, and one of the most respected figures in the Cardano development ecosystem on her own merits (former Developer Relations Lead on the Gentoo Linux distro, and the impressive history in a career of over two decades in technology continues), describes exact...
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What do Martin Lawrence, Snoop Dogg, and emerging artists have in common, and how can Cardano help?
Gimbalabs
meshjsaiken+ 1

What do Martin Lawrence, Snoop Dogg, and emerging artists have in common, and how can Cardano help?

What do Martin Lawrence, Snoop Dogg, and emerging artists have in common? To advance their careers, they are at the mercy of someone else\*.\* In an interview, Snoop once commented that, in the music business, it takes an artist approximately 35 years to get back the masters of his work, and therefore the governance over his profits and the use of his work. ...
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The MeshJS open source solution for the NFT vending machine problem
Gimbalabs
meshjsaiken+ 3

The MeshJS open source solution for the NFT vending machine problem

A few months ago we successfully developed a series of standard contracts in Aiken, which offer solutions to use cases without a significant number of moving parts. Currently, we are expanding our collection of Aiken contracts to cover more complex use cases. One such contract approaches the well-known NFT vending machine problem. Although a seemingly simpl...
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The 11 blockchain tenets: towards a blockchain bill of rights
Ivan Irakoze
Blockchainblockchain tenets

The 11 blockchain tenets: towards a blockchain bill of rights

Author: Prof Aggelos Kiayias First published on October 11, 2024, on iohk.io \----- Designing blockchain systems is a challenging endeavor. It is also a continuous process, as these systems are long-lived and aim to capture requirements that evolve during their lifetime. It follows that a blockchain project’s community often faces difficult decisions that...
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The Rise and Growth of Mesh
Gimbalabs
meshjsDeveloper Tools+ 1

The Rise and Growth of Mesh

Three days ago the team from Gimbalabs released MeshJS v1.7, Chang-ready on mainnet. Its main features: Chang Cost models PlutusV3 General transaction structure changes to fit Conway Embedded datum dRep in Browser Wallet New experimental utxo selection Add verbose to transaction However, MeshJS v2.0 is on its way. It will come in 3 different flavors:...
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The Mesh team presents an Aiken library to make devs' lives easier
Gimbalabs
meshjsaiken+ 2

The Mesh team presents an Aiken library to make devs' lives easier

The Escrow contract is the trusted intermediary that allows two parties to safely exchange assets, holding them until both parties agree and sign the Tx. Let’s try it! To do so, you’ll need two preprod wallets (to simulate the two parties in agreement). :white\_check\_mark:Step 1: Go to https://meshjs.dev/smart-contracts/escrow :white\_check\_mark:Step 2:...
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Tomorrow, a new session of "Cardano Go Live Coding".
Gimbalabs
GimbalabsAndamio+ 5

Tomorrow, a new session of "Cardano Go Live Coding".

Get a taste of how coding for the Cardano blockchain using Go is, tomorrow at "Cardano Go Live Coding", brought to you by Blink Labs, Gimbalabs, and Andamio platform. Zoom invite: https://www.andamio.io/calendar
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The ⚽️FC Barcelona is coming to Cardano.
Gimbalabs
gimbalabsAndamio+ 2

The ⚽️FC Barcelona is coming to Cardano.

Quoting one of our partners, NMKR: "You might've already heard rumours... And now we're happy to report: Yes. It is true. The FC Barcelona is coming to Cardano." And Andamio platform is part of the team that will make it possible. A user base of millions of fans worldwide awaits the magic of Cardano. Let's do it, people! https://x.com/nmkr\_io/status/...
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