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News, updates, and insights about Cardano staking, Midnight, governance, and the broader ecosystem.

Charles has been running an interview series which you may have noticed. This episode with Lars caught our eye recently, super interesting to hear him talking...

Musings 11 Apr 2021

Cardano Metrics E1-259

We've been messing around with Cardano-db-sync which puts the entire block chain into a Postgres SQL database instance, and means you can easily access via SQL...

Interesting Links 10 Apr 2021

Cardano Blockchain Insights

Some great insight here on Google data studio from Cardano Fans Stake Pool. Covering Delegation, Supply, Stake Pools, Social, Treasury, Development, and Native...

Cardano Updates 8 Apr 2021

Cardano Node 1.26.1

A new version of Cardano Node has been released as part of the transition to Smart contracts in Alonzo. There will be another release before that however this...

Musings 1 Apr 2021

d=0

So we have now passed the point where the decentralisation parameter "d" reaches zero. What does this mean? The d parameter sets the amount of blocks produced...

Cardano Updates 1 Apr 2021

Daedalus 4.0.3

A new version of Daedalus has been released with a host of improvements including Native Tokens, improved Trezor support, and better CSV exports. From the...

Site Announcements 27 Mar 2021

1000th block minted for ADV

When we first registered ADAvault on mainnet, very late in the night on the 30th July 2020, at the very beginning of the Shelley era, this seemed an almost...

Cardano Community 26 Mar 2021

Cardano Ecosystem

The breadth and depth of the Cardano ecosystem is becoming truly world-class. It's now more than 150 organisations from across the globe. The growth rate is...

Site Announcements 26 Mar 2021

Reward Sharing and Pledge

Prof. Aggelos Kiayias (Chief Scientist at IOHK) takes us through how rewards and pledging works on Cardano and why pledge matters (if you are staking with us...

Cardano Updates 25 Mar 2021

Cardano 360 March Edition

Another fantastic show this month. The team maintains really high production values for the show, and another jam packed edition with a load of content. Tim...

Site Announcements 19 Mar 2021

Delegators to ADV4

We have consolidated ADV3 and ADV4, and will reserve ADV4 for future use. Please transfer stake to ADV3 with immediate effect. There will be no impact on...

Interesting Links 19 Mar 2021

Inspired by Cardano

Fantastic tweet in the feed today for NFT artwork due to be released by ELEMENT 12G. These look amazing. Inspired by Cardano this image is a visual...

Cardano Community 19 Mar 2021

Peer to peer lending

Charles spends 10 minutes talking through the opportunities, and transformational potential if widespread P2P lending can be safely unlocked. There is immense...

Cardano Updates 16 Mar 2021

Cardano added to Bloomberg Terminal

Says it all really. No price data at this point, but this is an important addition as reflects the improved profile Cardano is building amongst institutional...

Cardano Updates 16 Mar 2021

Coinbase Pro

News just in that ADA has (finally) been added to Coinbase Pro which opens the market up to institutional investors. Combined with the addition to the...

Cardano Updates 13 Mar 2021

Cardano 360

Bit slow posting this, there's new format for the monthly Dev news. Great show from Tim and Aparna with a lot of content this month. Details on changes to the...

Interesting Links 11 Mar 2021

FD7 Ventures

This recent news article caught our eye: According to FD7 Ventures Managing Partner, Prakash Chand, Bitcoin’s market cap will reach $10 trillion in a few...

Site Announcements 7 Mar 2021

ADAvault tokens

We have just minted 42,000,000 ADAvault tokens on mainnet. These will be used in future to represent ADAvault share capital, or some other form of stake in the...

Site Announcements 7 Mar 2021

Stake pool tuning

More tuning work over the last few days. You may have noticed we plan to spin up some more pools later in March as ADV and ADV2 are nearing saturation. The new...

Cardano Community 5 Mar 2021

'd=0' Day

We are fast approaching full decentralisation of the Cardano network with all blocks produced by Stake Pool Operators (SPOs) with the transition set to occur...

Cardano Updates 1 Mar 2021

Mary update successfully applied

Great news. Massive thanks go to the team at IOHK for another superbly managed upgrade. It's becoming a habit…

Interesting Links 25 Feb 2021

Babel Fees

We are massive fans of Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and spent many an hour reading about the antics of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and Zaphod...

Site Announcements 24 Feb 2021

Protocol update incoming

Mary is go! Just in, IOHK confirmation that Mary hard fork is confirmed for March 1st. Native tokens here we come. We are on the launchpad, t minus 5 days…