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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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Newsletter: EMURGO Academy in Project Catalyst | September 2022
Sebastian Pabon
#EMURGOAcademy#ProjectCatalyst+ 1

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
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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
MithrilDevelopment+ 2

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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8 ways you can start using multisig functionality
Kush Sharma
multisigSmart Contracts

8 ways you can start using multisig functionality

Did you know that Cardano offers a different approach to smart contracts for security and other operational reasons?‍ Unlike other blockchains that use a banking-style account model, Cardano does not have one smart contract calling another in the same transaction.  Cardano smart contracts are used as validators to evaluate logic and decide whether a certai...
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10 ways NFTs can empower musicians
Kush Sharma
BlockchainBlog+ 3

10 ways NFTs can empower musicians

NFTs are unique digital assets that cannot be replicated, making them perfect for representing rights and ownership of creative works. Since Cardano is the most developed crypto project, it has become a breeding ground for new and innovative applications. One such application is how NMKR allows musicians to create and mint their music NFTs. By doing that, ar...
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Cardano Vasil Hardfork - readiness of SPOs
Cexplorer.io
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Cardano Vasil Hardfork - readiness of SPOs

Surely you know that we are approaching the point where the hardfork (software upgrade) to the new version will take place and with it several great features will be activated (inline scripts, plutusV2 and many more). Since we love advanced analytics in our cardano explorer, we couldn't pass up sharing some numbers and progress with you. After a successf...
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Upgrading to Vasil – key development takeaways
S. Pan
CardanoDevelopment+ 2

Upgrading to Vasil – key development takeaways

Artano is a community-driven non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace focused on revolutionizing the digital art economy. It seeks to connect vibrant global communities of artists and institutional clients with collectors around the world. Built on the Cardano blockchain, Artano enables the creation and trade of NFTs, as well as support for auctions, which only ...
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Cardano enviroments
Cexplorer.io
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Cardano enviroments

Production (mainnet) Usage: Live Production. Only gets official mainnet releases. Explorer: https://cexplorer.io/ Preview testnet Usage: Testing release candidates and mainnet releases. Leads mainnet hard forks by at least 4 weeks. Explorer: https://preview.cexplorer.io/ Pre-production testnet Usage: Testing release candidates and mainnet releases. Fo...
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Cardano has the second mover advantage
Cexplorer.io
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Cardano has the second mover advantage

The first mover advantage is no guarantee of ultimate success. Being second is also an advantage, as it is possible to learn from the mistakes of the first, do things differently, more thoughtfully and carefully. Cardano does not have a fundamental disadvantage compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum. The advantage of the first mover The first mover advantage is ...
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Kachina: privacy-preserving smart contracts
Olga Hryniuk
ResearchSmart Contracts+ 2

Kachina: privacy-preserving smart contracts

Leveraging ZK Snarks to enable privacy-preserving smart contract functionality without sacrificing decentralization characteristics Smart contracts present a standard approach to expressing complex interactions between two or more parties willing to exchange currencies or data in a decentralized way. Smart contracts are effectively automated digital agreeme...
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Cardano Insights
Cexplorer.io
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Cardano Insights

We decided to create and analyze several important onchain indicators and we called it cardano insights. Below we present the first results (axis x = cardano epoch, axis y = value for selected metric). 1\. Payment addressess (unique outputs) Payment addresess (unique outputs) 2\. Average used blocksize (kB) Average used blocksize (kB) 3\. Delegations pe...
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Debunking myths surrounding ADA price fluctuation: you are a Project Manager, not a speculator

Sebastian Pabon
adaDjed+ 3
The current price fluctuation in ADA has generated much concern and a state of helplessness among my colleagues at Catalyst and the community at large in the face of the loss of value of their funded proposal budgets. The purpose of this article is to present from an Efficient Market Theory\* point of view, simple arguments that can provide project managers...
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Cardano 101
Fernando Sanchez
101Cardano+ 2

Cardano 101

Cardano is a third generation blockchain whose versatility enables the creation of a broad range of solutions, including cryptocurrencies, digital identity, supply chain traceability, DeFi, DApps, and many more. Cardano is built on a foundation of peer-reviewed research and developed through evidence-based methodologies. This new series explores the compone...
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