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Weekly development report as of 2025-01-17
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2025-01-17

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past few weeks, the ledger team focused on polishing Conway ledger features in preparation for this month’s Plomin hard fork and continued testing to increase confidence in this transition. As part of this effort, the team discovered and resolved several bugs. All stake pool operators (SPOs) are encouraged to upgrade to Cardano node...
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Weekly development report as of 2025-01-10
Emmanuel
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 1

Weekly development report as of 2025-01-10

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams released Cardano node v.10.1.4, which ensures the network is ready for the upcoming Plomin hard fork. This release includes mempool safeguards designed to block specific types of problematic transactions, further enhancing the reliability and security of the network. The consensus team worked on the augm...
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Six reasons why EUTXO wins
Fernando Sanchez
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Six reasons why EUTXO wins

Cardano features some of the most innovative elements of blockchain technology: Hydra and Mithril, for example – layer 2 solutions designed to enhance scalability. Or Cardano’s proof-of-stake consensus protocol, Ouroboros, whose various 'flavors' (Genesis, Praos, Peras, etc) ensure that the blockchain remains efficient and secure even under adversarial condi...
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❄️Essential Cardano360 December 2024 Edition🎄
Ivan Irakoze
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❄️Essential Cardano360 December 2024 Edition🎄

🎉✨ Welcome to the festive December edition of Essential Cardano360! As 2024 comes to an end, it’s the perfect time to look back on a year filled with progress and growth across the Cardano ecosystem. Together, this community has achieved so much, and we’re here to reflect on just a few of the highlights. 🌠✨ 🌟In this special episode, we’ll revisit key mo...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-12-13
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-12-13

Dear community, this report marks the final development update for 2024. Regular updates will resume on January 10, 2025. Wishing everyone happy holidays and a wonderful New Year🎄! Here’s to a year ahead filled with exciting progress, new milestones, and shared success. ✨ CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past few weeks, the networking team collaborated with the ...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-12-06
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-12-06

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the SRE team worked on Cardano environment improvements and general maintenance. They released Cardano node v.10.1.3 and DB Sync v.13.6.0.2 and v.13.6.0.4 to all environments, and configured mainnet bootstraps, enabling a shared dashboard. The ledger team discovered and fixed a bug in the ledger that was backported in a patch rel...
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Your Cardano onboarding guide
Olga Hryniuk
CardanoNFT+ 7

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
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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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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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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