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How to choose a Web3 wallet
Neil Burgess
Cryptoblockchain+ 11

How to choose a Web3 wallet

Web3 aims to make the most of decentralized technologies and the latest wallets can do much more than manage cryptocurrencies. What is a Web3 wallet? A crypto wallet is designed to manage cryptocurrency. Unlike a traditional wallet that holds banknotes, a crypto wallet does not store digital assets. Rather, it stores the cryptographic keys that are the onl...
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Engineering dive into Cardano's Dynamic P2P design
Armando Santos
P2PNetworking+ 1

Engineering dive into Cardano's Dynamic P2P design

Discover the journey through the challenges, solutions, and triumphs behind the creation of a robust and scalable networking system This blog post was originally published on the engineering blog. As the Cardano ecosystem continues to grow and evolve, contributors to the Cardano ecosystem are  committed to continually refining and optimizing Cardano's netw...
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Dynamic P2P is available on mainnet
Olga Hryniuk
NetworkingSPO+ 1

Dynamic P2P is available on mainnet

日本語版はこちら Dynamic peer-to-peer (P2P) networking comes with the release of node v.1.35.6. Network participants can now test automatic node communication without a need for static configurations. Dynamic P2P networking is an important evolution for Cardano and a further boost to the network's performance, resilience, and decentralization. By automating the pe...
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New Cardano cryptographic primitives will bring greater interoperability and secure, cross-chain DApp development
Tim Harrison IOHK
#cardanoupgrade+ 1

New Cardano cryptographic primitives will bring greater interoperability and secure, cross-chain DApp development

日本語版はこちら To make it easier for developers to build cross-chain applications, Input Output Global (IOG) is adding new built-in functions to Plutus to support ECDSA and Schnorr signatures Cryptography ensures trust and security in blockchain settings and different blockchains use different cryptographic signature methods. Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Alg...
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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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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 Cardano Sounds: a platform aiming to create a new economy inside NFTs where individual creator...
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What IOG has delivered for Cardano
Olga Hryniuk
Cardano roadmapDevelopment+ 8

What IOG has delivered for Cardano

Cardano’s development is guided by a methodical, research-based, and deliberate approach to innovation. Over five development phases, IOG introduced innovations, new functionality, and novel features, with each phase building upon the previous phase's achievements. This paper has been written by Fernando Sanchez and Olga Hryniuk with input from all IOG team...
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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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Staking parameters and network optimization – where next for ‘k’ and ‘min fee’?
Rebecca Hopwood
CardanoStaking+ 2

Staking parameters and network optimization – where next for ‘k’ and ‘min fee’?

 Pros and cons of the different approaches to adjusting the k parameter and the minimum pool fee A set of parameters is used to define the Cardano protocol's behavior. Some parameters are stable and can be left unchanged more or less indefinitely. Others relate to more dynamic on-chain activities (staking environment or price of ada, to name just two) and c...
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Introducing the Cardano EVM sidechain
Olga Hryniuk
CardanoBasho+ 3

Introducing the Cardano EVM sidechain

The Cardano EVM sidechain is a fully decentralized scalability solution deployed by IOG. Find out more about its features, benefits, and delivery plans Cardano is growing. Expanding. The Vasil upgrade will open up even more opportunities for efficient development and usage of various DApps and DeFi products on Cardano. Sidechains and layer 2 solutions are ...
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Overview of the research enabling smart contract support on Cardano
Olga Hryniuk
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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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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How we’re scaling Cardano in 2022
Olga Hryniuk
CardanoScalability+ 2

How we’re scaling Cardano in 2022

Original author: Tim Harrison - VP Community & Ecosystem Originally published on IOHK.io: January 14, 2022 Summary: With core smart contract capability now deployed, the next phase for Cardano focuses on performance optimization and scaling. And it starts right here… Article: The Cardano project has always been committed to addressing the classic block...
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2021: the year robots, and graffiti came to a decentralized, smarter Cardano
Olga Hryniuk
CardanoDecentralization+ 2

2021: the year robots, and graffiti came to a decentralized, smarter Cardano

Original author: Anthony Quinn - Editor Originally published on IOHK.io: December 27, 2021 Summary: Beeple used to illustrate our blog posts, but art NFTs made him a millionaire, and then AI and DeFi arrived Article: Incredibly, given the state of our Covid-shocked world back in January, 2021 has had its fair share of fun. And if 2020 was a big year fo...
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Increasing the transaction throughput of Cardano
Morgan
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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Gimbalabs Live Coding session, brought to you by: Mesh
Gimbalabs
CardanoDeveloper Tools+ 5

Gimbalabs Live Coding session, brought to you by: Mesh

 Live Coding takes place Wednesday and Thursday, from 14:30 UTC. Learning Target of today's post: exploring how a marketplace built on Cardano works. Let's do it! 1\. Go to https://meshjs.dev/smart-contracts/marketplace  2\. Once there, go to "Try the demo". You have to connect a "preprod" wallet. Don't know how to do it? No worries, go to https://plutus...
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Gimbalabs included in the "EL Education" portal
Gimbalabs
CardanoEducation+ 6

Gimbalabs included in the "EL Education" portal

Great news: Gimbalabs, the organization that has been producing collaborators for different Cardano projects since Catalyst's Fund1, in an industry where there is a consistent shortage of blockchain developer talent, was included in the prestigious EL Education portal along with other recognized global educational organizations. Congratulations colleagues...
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Enhanced Integration of Wrapped Smart Contracts
Pete - Blueshift
Interoperability

Enhanced Integration of Wrapped Smart Contracts

The recent amalgamation of Wrapped Smart Contracts (WSC) within the sophisticated Milkomeda platform marks a monumental development, widening the scope and capabilities for Cardano wallet holders extensively. This advancement enables users to smoothly interact with a plethora of Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible decentralized applications (DApps), en...
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Programming languages
Fernando Sanchez
101ada+ 3

Programming languages

Haskell Cardano is written in Haskell, a functional language that emphasizes 'pure' functions. That is, functions that produce the same result for the same input. Haskell is particularly well suited to Cardano's high-assurance code, and the need for greater formal verification in the blockchain. Cardano aims to become a global social and financial system, ...
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Native tokens and tools – an update
Neil Burgess
#cardanoBlockchain+ 8

Native tokens and tools – an update

日本語版はスクロールダウンしてください。 One of the features that makes Cardano special is native tokens. Here is an update on its uses and the tools and wallets that have been developed to support it. The Cardano native tokens feature allows user-defined tokens to be handled by the underlying ledger in the same way as the native ada currency. These user-defined tokens can re...
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