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Weekly development report as of 2025-02-14
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2025-02-14

ECOSYSTEM UPDATES The information in this section is based on publicly available sources and is provided for informational purposes only. It does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of any project, product, or service mentioned. The Cardano ecosystem continues to show steady progress across key areas. There are currently 1,985 projects building...
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Weekly development report as of 2025-02-07
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2025-02-07

CORE TECHNOLOGY The performance and tracing team released new benchmarks and performance baselines for node v.10.2 for UTXO-HD, the new Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), and Genesis, including benchmarks for a 'Periodic tracer'. They also labeled threads throughout the node to improve trace clarity and fixed a race condition in the ekg-wai monitoring dependen...
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Essential Cardano360 January 2025 Edition
Ivan Irakoze
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Essential Cardano360 January 2025 Edition

🎉 Join us as we kick off the new year with the first edition of Essential Cardano360 for 2025! Here’s what’s happening across the Cardano ecosystem this month. We’ve got an update from Intersect MBO on Cardano’s open-source governance tooling and the latest on Cardano budget for 2025. Next, we reflect on last month’s Constitutional Convention, and look ah...
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Weekly development report as of 2025-01-31
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2025-01-31

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams, in collaboration with the community and Intersect working groups, finalized work on the Conway ledger era, successfully delivering the Plomin hard fork. See more details in the Voltaire section.  Over the past weeks, the ledger team also focused on minor improvements across implementation and testing. T...
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Weekly development report as of 2025-01-24
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2025-01-24

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team continued improving documentation, enhancing the security of the consensus layer, and contributing to early-stage efforts in the Peras workstream. The UTXO-HD branch is being updated to utilize forward deserializability for transaction outputs (commits: 1, 2, 3). A successful local chain synchronization was perf...
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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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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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