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Plutus Pioneer Program - Part 2: How to “deploy” a Smart Contract in Cardano
Oussama Benmahmoud
PlutusPlutus Pioneers+ 9

Plutus Pioneer Program - Part 2: How to “deploy” a Smart Contract in Cardano

This blog post will demonstrate how to simulate the execution of a smart contract and how to \*\*“\*\*deploy“ it to the testnet through using various tools. Using the term “deploying” a smart contract is not accurate in the context of the Cardano Blockchain. We will explain the reason behind it later. I will try to break down technical concepts using straig...
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Plutus Pioneer Program - Part 3: How to Mint and Burn Tokens and NFTs in Cardano
Oussama Benmahmoud
Plutus PioneersPlutus+ 13

Plutus Pioneer Program - Part 3: How to Mint and Burn Tokens and NFTs in Cardano

The last blog covered how to deploy Smart Contracts in Cardano after simulating and testing its execution. Today, however, we have a more interesting part: how to mint and burn tokens in Cardano using Plutus technology and how to write a corresponding minting policy. 1- Native Tokens in Cardano As we may recall from previous blog posts, Cardano’s main dif...
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Plutus Pioneer Program - Part 4: State Machine with Plutus (1/2)
Oussama Benmahmoud
PlutusPeakChain+ 8

Plutus Pioneer Program - Part 4: State Machine with Plutus (1/2)

State Machine is a crucial concept that enables Plutus DApps developers to write more concise and qualitatively better contracts on-chain as well as off-chain. A shorter code means a more readable code and results in a better software quality. In this blog post, we will present a simple Game in the Cardano Blockchain, and we will implement it with a first a...
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Plutus Pioneer Program - Part 5: State Machine with Plutus (2/2)
Oussama Benmahmoud
PlutusPlutus Pioneers+ 8

Plutus Pioneer Program - Part 5: State Machine with Plutus (2/2)

In this blog post, we will proceed with the Game Example that we have seen in the last aticle. We will refactor the code to eliminate the redundant logic and optimize code using the concept of State Machines in Plutus. 1\. Important concepts related to the State Machine with Plutus State Machine: Represented by the UTXO sitting at the State Machine address...
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Testing Plutus Smart Contracts (1/3)
Oussama Benmahmoud
#ProjectCatalystPlutus Pioneers+ 5

Testing Plutus Smart Contracts (1/3)

To guarantee secure and high-quality smart contracts, rigorous testing strategies should be implemented. These will significantly differ from standard testing techniques typically used in low-risk web 2 applications. Testing in Plutus has been be thoroughly covered in the 8th lecture of the Plutus Pioneer Program. My background, which is largely in softwar...
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“Cardano For the M₳sses” Book Review
Oussama Benmahmoud
#ProjectCatalystCardanoBook+ 1

“Cardano For the M₳sses” Book Review

First Impression about the Book Honestly, I was saddened that the release of “Mastering Cardano” book was postponed. Still, another book called “Cardano for the masses”, written by John Greene, caught me by surprise. While reading the title for the first time, my expectations were, honestly, low. I thought this book would describe some silly Cardano conce...
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Testing Plutus Smart Contracts (2/3)
Oussama Benmahmoud
PlutusPeakChain+ 4

Testing Plutus Smart Contracts (2/3)

To guarantee secure and high-quality smart contracts, rigorous testing strategies should be implemented. These will significantly differ from standard testing techniques typically used in low-risk web 2 applications. Testing in Plutus has been be thoroughly covered in the 8th lecture of the Plutus Pioneer Program. My background, which is largely in softwar...
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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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Cardano now has a stablecoin
Shareslake Network
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Cardano now has a stablecoin

Shareslake has been working hard during the year to open the Cardano technology to those use cases in which the typical crypto volatility is not an option. On May 1st, 2022, the Shareslake network was released as a fork of Cardano. It has the peculiarity to run on top of Redeemable, a fiat-backed stablecoin that is designed to be not just a common stablecoi...
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Comparison of energy consumption of Cardano and Bitcoin
Cexplorer.io
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Comparison of energy consumption of Cardano and Bitcoin

Did you know that Cardano is about 60,000 times more energy efficient than Bitcoin? Is this important to you? Maybe yes and maybe no. However, this topic is increasingly being debated at the level of governments and regulators. Their decisions may affect the future of blockchain projects. Let's look at the details. Intro Protecting the environment is a pri...
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Cardano 360: Empowering Universities, Expanding the Cardano Universe
Sebastian Pabon
#EMURGOAcademy#ProjectCatalyst+ 3

Cardano 360: Empowering Universities, Expanding the Cardano Universe

🏗️Each University developing its own Blockchain lab, 🚚channeling innovation to Catalyst and 🏭feeding Cardano with new projects and developers to increase adoption: 🌤️it's a possible future. 🐣This event is the first step for many Universities and educational projects around the world. 🎓Universities are the fissure through which the adoption of Cardano...
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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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Newsletter: EMURGO Academy in Project Catalyst | September 2022
Sebastian Pabon
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Newsletter: EMURGO Academy in Project Catalyst | September 2022

Dear Learners and friends, Greetings from EMURGO Academy, speaking to you through the EMURGO Academy in Project Catalyst Newsletter.  Most people know us as EMURGO, one of the co-founding entities of Cardano.  Although we are part of it, the Academy is one of its divisions, sharing with all of them the mission that from the beginning was conferred to our pa...
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Astarter ISPO Stage1 Launch
AA Astarter
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Astarter ISPO Stage1 Launch

Following the announcement of the Astarter Launchpool to bring the ISPO component of our two-stage ISPO and Merge Staking Protocol available to projects and users of the Astarter DeFi infrastructure hub on Cardano. We are pleased to announce that the Astarter ISPO stage1 is officially launched at Epoch 366, Sept 27, 2022. As previously outlined, Astarter, a...
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6 types of blockchain consensus mechanisms
Ivan Irakoze
consensus mechanismblockchain+ 6

6 types of blockchain consensus mechanisms

日本語版はスクロールダウンしてください Blockchains are distributed systems in which records of digital transactions are both publicly verifiable and immutable. Each new transaction is included in a block along with other recent transactions, and the block is then added to a chain of other blocks (hence the term ‘blockchain’). For a blockchain to operate successfully, the par...
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Cardano’s Vasil upgrade: what to expect
Olga Hryniuk
ScalabilityCardano+ 4

Cardano’s Vasil upgrade: what to expect

Author: Tim Harrison - VP Community & Ecosystem Last updated: 16th September 2022 Summary: Increased functionality, performance & scalability; find out what the Vasil upgrade will bring to Cardano. Article: We’re now a little under one week away from the deployment of the Vasil upgrade, which significantly improves and enhances Cardano's capabilities. N...
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1093 Projects Building On Cardano
Morgan
Building on Cardano

1093 Projects Building On Cardano

Tim Harrison's community LinkedIn post After a year of building, and months of testing, we’re now a little more than a week away from the deployment of the Cardano Vasil upgrade (22nd September), which significantly improves and enhances platform capabilities. New Plutus smart contract features and enhancements will enable DApp developers to create novel an...
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The next NMKR token distribution events: airdrop & ISPO
Kush Sharma
airdrop

The next NMKR token distribution events: airdrop & ISPO

We’re proud to finally announce the next steps in our NMKR token distribution event (TDE) plans that were initially outlined in our original whitepaper. The next two distribution events can be categorized into:‍ Airdrop ISPO Airdrop As outlined in the whitepaper, we’ve allocated a total of 120m NMKR Tokens (1.2% of maximum supply) to an airdrop. The ove...
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EMURGO Academy is official sponsor of the Cardano Hackaton in Argentina
Sebastian Pabon
#ProjectCatalyst

EMURGO Academy is official sponsor of the Cardano Hackaton in Argentina

By Sebastian Pabon Governance Council member - EMURGO Academy In essence, we seek to exercise with honor the noble task of providing education to people who seek to govern their own destiny, to make their communities worthy places to inhabit, and to restore to the world the decency lost in a deliberate exchange of profit for principle.  We are simply educa...
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Mithril proof of concept is now open-source
Olga Hryniuk
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Mithril proof of concept is now open-source

Mithril is a stake-based signature scheme that improves the speed and efficiency of syncing times for nodes joining the network. Find out how to get involved As Cardano scales, Input Output Global (IOG) engineering teams are working on a range of solutions to boost network performance. Mithril is one such solution, aiming to streamline the speed and efficie...
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