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2022 Brand Report

News just in that Cardano has made it into the top 30 of the Brand Intimacy Report for 2022 at #26, edging ahead of BMW, IKEA and many other big names including Bitcoin which is four places behind. A good sign that wider awareness is building.

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Ready for Vasil

All ADAvault nodes have now been upgraded to 1.35.3 ready for the Vasil Hard Fork Combinator event. You can track the overall Cardano ecosystem progress towards Vasil on the PoolTool.io Network Health dashboard. As of writing you can see we are about half way there in terms of SPO upgrades. IOG have set a few…

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Vasil Upgrade Status

You may have seen a few concerns on social media in the recent days about the status of the Vasil upgrade. We’ve been keeping our heads down as we didn’t have much to add to the conversation taking place. While we view debate as healthy, our view tends to primarily be informed by IOG (Kevin…

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More papers!

A couple of new research papers have just been released by the research powerhouse that is Prof Aggelos Kiayias and team. Worth linking because they both move the current state of knowledge forward significantly. Both worth reading, albeit complex to understand. Firstly PEReDi: Privacy-Enhanced, Regulated and Distributed Central Bank Digital Currencies, by Aggelos Kiayias, Markulf…

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Cardano360 July

Regular monthly update from Tim and crew covers the Vasil progress and upcoming features like Babel Fees (which we covered recently). Some minor delays to Vasil which given the recent hacks on Nomad and Solana (in just the last few days), are a non-issue from our perspective. It’s imperative to get security right. Move fast…