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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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Weekly development report as of 2024-11-29
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-11-29

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team began preparing a proposal for the technical steering committee (TSC) addressing chain growth violations. They also authored a document on the Cardano-specific implementation of the Praos protocol theorem. The DB Sync team released v.13.6.0.2, which is compatible with node v.10.1.2 and includes rollback speed i...
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Essential Cardano360 November 2024 Edition
Ivan Irakoze
Cardano360Building on Cardano+ 2

Essential Cardano360 November 2024 Edition

🍂As November draws to a close, it's time for the latest edition of Essential Cardano360, bringing you the newest updates and developments from across the Cardano ecosystem. 🔍 As always, this month we're bringing you exciting developments from across the Cardano space. First up, we have an update from Intersect MBO on governance and their ongoing work. Pl...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-11-22
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-11-22

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams, in collaboration with the Cardano Foundation, released several components compatible with the latest Cardano node version – Cardano DB Sync, Cardano GraphQL, Cardano Rosetta servers, and Cardano wallet. This means that the latest node version is compatible with all components. For more details, see relea...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-11-15
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2024-11-15

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, IO started collaborating with Sundae Labs and Well-Typed to validate Ouroboros Leios’ feasibility, impact, trade-offs, and implementation costs. To dive deeper into Ouroboros Leios, see this video about 'Near-optimal throughput', and stay tuned for more details. The networking team announced that support for the non-P2P network s...
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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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