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Weekly development report as of 2024-10-04
Emmanuel

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

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

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

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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Weekly development report as of 2024-09-13
Emmanuel

Weekly development report as of 2024-09-13

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the ledger team implemented a new Conway-related feature that disallows stake credentials from withdrawing rewards if they are backed by a key hash and not delegated to any DRep. This feature will become effective after the bootstrap phase. The team also worked on additional tests and fixed several minor bugs, including GovInfoEve...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-09-06
Emmanuel

Weekly development report as of 2024-09-06

CORE TECHNOLOGY The core technology teams released Cardano node v.9.1.1 to address an issue where 9.1.0 nodes would replay from the genesis block upon restart during the Conway era. See the Voltaire section for more details. The consensus team introduced a snapshot-converter tool that allows non-UTXO-HD ledger snapshots to be converted into UTXO-HD ones, e...
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What is Cardano (Cardano 101)
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Cardano’s Vasil upgrade: what to expect
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Cardano’s Vasil upgrade: what to expect

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6 types of blockchain consensus mechanisms
Ivan Irakoze

6 types of blockchain consensus mechanisms

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A list of community-built developer tools on Cardano
Ivan Irakoze

A list of community-built developer tools on Cardano

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The EUTXO Handbook
Fernando Sanchez

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