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Weekly development report as of 2024-10-18
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-10-18

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team released new versions of the diff-containers-1.3.0.0, fingertree-rm-1.0.0.3, cardano-lmdb-0.4.0.2, and cardano-lmdb-simple-0.7.0.1 packages. Improvements to IOSim included adding MonadLabelledMVar and enhancing the Show instance for ScheduleMod. The team also released consensus packages for Node 10.0 and worked ...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-10-11
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2024-10-11

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the DB Sync team addressed issues from the latest release, including off-chain data fixes, incorrect pool-stat fields, and invalidated votes. They also added a new feature that optionally creates a separate address table, separating it from the tx\_out table. Finally, they collaborated with the ledger team on memory improvements a...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-10-04
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-10-04

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past two weeks, the consensus team has been working to establish a baseline for the consensus quantitative timeliness agreements(QTA). This helps inform discussions on sync performance goals with the networking team, particularly improvements related to Genesis. Additionally, the team rebased UTXO-HD atop main, with all tests succes...
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Essential Cardano360 September 2024 Edition
Ivan Irakoze
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Essential Cardano360 September 2024 Edition

We’re back from our summer break! Welcome to Essential Cardano360 September 2024 edition! 👋 🔍This month we’ve a bumper edition with all the latest updates from the Cardano ecosystem and our news from over the summer. We’ve also got Constitutional Workshops, news from member-based organization Intersect, and the Cardano Budget. Plus, guest slots from the t...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-09-27
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-09-27

CORE TECHNOLOGY Last week, the core technology teams released node v.9.2.0, bringing several improvements and bug fixes: Script-based DRep support in the update certificate CLI command Improved transaction view CLI command Governance-related ledger state queries Improved Plutus debugging functionality A new method for calculating CBOR-encoded transacti...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-09-20
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-09-20

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team focused on various areas: They have identified the UTXO set as a primary cause of performance degradation during ledger snapshots. Together with the ledger team, they have proposed a solution to reduce memory allocations when serializing the ledger state. The team drafted scripts to estimate the necessary band...
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Your Cardano onboarding guide
Olga Hryniuk
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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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What is Cardano (Cardano 101)
Fernando Sanchez
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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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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

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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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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The EUTXO Handbook
Fernando Sanchez
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The EUTXO Handbook

The EUTXO Handbook There currently are two major accounting ledgers in the blockchain space: UTXO-based blockchains (Bitcoin, for instance), and Account/Balance chains (Ethereum and others). Cardano combines Bitcoin’s unspent transaction output (UTXO) model with the ability to handle smart contracts into an Extended Unspent Transaction Output (EUTXO) accou...
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