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What is Cardano (Cardano 101)
Fernando Sanchez
adaOuroboros+ 16

What is Cardano (Cardano 101)

What is Cardano? The Cardano universe is expanding with the arrival of a broad range of decentralized applications and exchanges. From games to decentralized finance (DeFi), Cardano covers the whole gamut of blockchain-based versatility. As Cardano grows, so does its reach, its community, value, and adoption. This paper reflects all that Cardano is, what i...
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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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Your categorized list of Input Output Global blog posts

Ivan Irakoze
hub of linksIOG
日本語版はスクロールダウンしてくださいhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHsI5QGtkY8 The Input Output (IO) blog page regularly features blockchain, Cardano, and IO-relevant content to inform and educate its community. Here is a central hub on Essential Cardano, categorizing and connecting to IO’s published blog posts. Find the IO blog article(s) you need within the following ca...
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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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Cardano advances with Valentine upgrade and zippier P2P nodes
Anthony Quinn
Cardano

Cardano advances with Valentine upgrade and zippier P2P nodes

日本語版はこちら Cardano is gradually and securely becoming a blockchain capable of hosting a new decentralized financial system. The biggest upgrades of recent years – implemented using ‘hard forks’ – have added stake delegation, native assets and NFTs, and the Plutus and Marlowe smart contract platforms.  At first sight, improvements so far this year are more su...
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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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Cardano Working Groups: how to get involved
Ivan Irakoze
DevelopmentDecentralization+ 2

Cardano Working Groups: how to get involved

日本語版はこちら The Cardano ecosystem has seen tremendous growth in the past year. With this growth, there have been areas of development that have needed to expand in parallel. One way to tackle these usability and interoperability domains through community collaboration is the assembly of a number of informal developer Working Groups (WG). Read on to learn about...
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Staking and rewards in proof of stake
Neil Burgess
StakingCardano+ 4

Staking and rewards in proof of stake

日本語版はスクロールダウンしてください Staking and rewards in Cardano Cardano's staking and rewards system supports and incentivizes the blockchain's decentralization and is a fundamental component of the blockchain's operations. By delegating the stake that comes with their ada, Cardano users become active participants in the network's sustainability – with no costs and no ...
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Everything you always wanted to know about Impermanent Loss and were afraid to ask
Morgan
Impermanent LossDeFi+ 11

Everything you always wanted to know about Impermanent Loss and were afraid to ask

Disclaimer: Nothing in this article is intended to be professional advice, including without limitation, financial, investment, legal or tax advice. Input Output Global is not responsible for your use of or reliance on any information in this article.   Original author: Fernando Sanchez - Technical Writer Originally published on IOHK.io: May 27th, 2022 A...
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The Role of Stablecoins in Cardano’s DeFi Ecosystem
EMURGO
EmurgoStablecoin

The Role of Stablecoins in Cardano’s DeFi Ecosystem

Background Stablecoins have become an essential element of cryptocurrencies. Unlike traditional cryptocurrencies, stablecoins are designed to maintain a stable value against another specific asset or basket of assets, such as the US dollar or a commodity like gold. This stability makes them an ideal tool for use in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications....
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CIP-1694 Community Workshops
Jack Briggs
CIP1694Voltaire

CIP-1694 Community Workshops

日本語版はスクロールダウンしてください Where you are – throughout May, June, and July 2023 Plus: \- Tokyo, Japan – June, 2023 \- Edinburgh, Scotland – July, 2023 CIP-1694 marks the first iteration of Cardano’s on-chain governance. Given its importance, achieving broad consensus is vital as Cardano looks to the future. To make that happen, it’s equally important the commun...
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Cardano native tokens: a simple explanation
Ivan Irakoze
CardanoNative tokens

Cardano native tokens: a simple explanation

日本語版はスクロールダウンしてください Cardano native tokens allow anyone to create and transact digital assets with ease, directly on the blockchain, leading to a growing ecosystem of unique projects. But how do Cardano's native assets differ from ones on other blockchains, and how can you mint your own? Read on to learn about: what Cardano native tokens are, their benefi...
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CIP-1694 Community Workshops - The Line Up

Jack Briggs
CIP1694Voltaire+ 1
CIP-1694 Community Workshops - The Lineup CIP-1694 marks the first iteration of Cardano’s on-chain governance. Given this CIP’s importance, achieving broad consensus is vital as Cardano looks to the future. To make that happen, it’s incumbent that the community conducts its own governance discussions and events. Earlier this year, a governance workshops let...
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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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EMURGO Ventures Announces Cardano EMURGO BUILD 2023 Hackathon
EMURGO
Emurgo

EMURGO Ventures Announces Cardano EMURGO BUILD 2023 Hackathon

The Cardano EMURGO BUILD 2023 Hackathon is the largest ever Cardano blockchain-focused hackathon organized by a Cardano founding entity. SINGAPORE APRIL 27 2023 / EMURGO VENTURES (“EMV”) – EMURGO Ventures, the investment arm of Cardano blockchain founding entity EMURGO, today officially announced the Cardano EMURGO BUILD 2023 Hackathon event in partnership ...
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Why does Cardano stake not lock ADA?
Vcoincheck.io
StakingVcoincheck.io+ 1

Why does Cardano stake not lock ADA?

One of the basic questions about Cardano that every new user asks is “Does Cardano stake pool lock ADA?”  The answer is, No! Absolutely not The ADA staking mechanism on Cardano's network does not lock assets at all. Users have full rights to use the assets in their wallets whenever and wherever they want. This is very contrary to real-life common sense wh...
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SingularityDAO - Standard for a Dapp project decentralized governance ?
Vcoincheck.io
GovernanceDApp+ 1

SingularityDAO - Standard for a Dapp project decentralized governance ?

Foreword We all know that the DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization and a collection of decentralized agreements recorded on the blockchain through smart contracts. DAOs have been around since 2016 and currently, most of the protocol projects running on the blockchain are DAOs. a Defi Dapp is a simple DAO, people participate in decentralized finan...
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Insecurity of secret key re-usage
Iñigo Querejeta Azurmendi
CryptographyCardano

Insecurity of secret key re-usage

This blog post explains how to extract the key of an ed25519 key pair if its secret is also used to generate a verifiable random function (VRF) proof. The post provides a script that performs such an extraction over libsodium. In the pre-blockchain era, the typical advice from cryptographers was ‘Don't roll your own crypto!’. This advice aimed to avoid secu...
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Voltaire: A Ledger of Tourists, Residents, and Citizens
Emmanuel Batse
VoltaireGovernance+ 3

Voltaire: A Ledger of Tourists, Residents, and Citizens

Voltaire is the name given to the next era of the Cardano core development roadmap (Bootstrap Period) that focuses on delivering Decentralised Governance functionality to the Cardano protocol and introducing a new framework of participants, roles, and actions, to the Cardano Ledger. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author an...
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