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weekly development report as of 2024-07-26
Emmanuel
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weekly development report as of 2024-07-26

CORE TECHNOLOGY Cardano node v.9.1.0 has been released, bringing crucial features necessary for the upcoming Chang upgrade. This version includes a Conway genesis file needed to facilitate the Chang transition. This update includes several enhancements and bug fixes, particularly to the CLI and API, such as a new ‘query treasury’ command and updates for com...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-07-19
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-07-19

CORE TECHNOLOGY As the ledger team awaits the Chang upgrade, the focus has shifted towards extensive testing. Current efforts are primarily dedicated to writing unit tests and conducting conformance testing. This thorough testing is crucial to ensure that all systems are robust and fully prepared for the upcoming transition to the Conway era. WALLETS AND S...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-07-12
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-07-12

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the teams released node version 9.0.0. This is a significant milestone for the Cardano network as it includes all the necessary changes to facilitate the Conway ledger era. Some key features include: On-chain governance via CIP-1694  Plutus V1 reference scripts support Plutus script signature support through CIP-69.  This rele...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-07-05
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-07-05

CORE TECHNOLOGY Last week, the core technology teams released Cardano node v.8.12.2, which improves the bootstrap peer networking feature.    Over the last few weeks, the ledger team focused on constraint generator testing, conformance test plumbing, adding more scripts to the Alonzo UTXO specification, and other testing initiatives. In terms of infrastruc...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-06-28
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-06-28

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team supported debugging activities related to bootstrap nodes and merged various improvements to the db-X tools. In particular, they significantly optimized the db-truncater, which is regularly used by community members on SanchoNet, in terms of speed. The performance and tracing team released benchmarks for node v...
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Your Cardano onboarding guide
Olga Hryniuk
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Your Cardano onboarding guide

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What is Cardano (Cardano 101)
Fernando Sanchez
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What is Cardano (Cardano 101)

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Cardano’s Vasil upgrade: what to expect
Olga Hryniuk
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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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6 types of blockchain consensus mechanisms
Ivan Irakoze
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6 types of blockchain consensus mechanisms

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A list of community-built developer tools on Cardano
Ivan Irakoze
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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 foundational research overview
Morgan
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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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