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Decentralisation and security matters

Charles spoke at the Binance Conference in Dubai a few weeks ago and touched on decentralisation. He got a fair reception all things considered (Binance have one of the most centralised chains around which is largely a cut and paste of Ethereum). You may be familiar with the blockchain trilemma of scalability (or speed), security…

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Cardano Performance Improvements

We thought it was worth an update on progress improving the speed at which Cardano processes smart contracts and transactions. As Cardano adoption has accelerated this has become increasing important to enable the chain to maintain growth rates. It’s on the critical path now to support the large numbers of projects that are due to…

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Cardano Updates

New Daedalus 4.9

Some good updates in the latest release of everyone’s favourite decentralised, Dark mode friendly, Cardano full node wallet. Now running faster, lower RAM requirements, better UX/UI, and status reporting during startup. There’s a walkthrough from IOG on YouTube that we’ve linked for you. P.S. Full node wallets are truly decentralised. You don’t need to rely…

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Cardano Updates

Cardano360

It’s that time again. The February 2022 edition of Cardano360 has just been released, with updates on Cardano developments across the ecosystem. As ever lots of updates from host Tim Harrison and regulars. Shared for your convenience below.

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Transaction volume

So lets take a moment to examine this table from Messari. Spot the interesting and very important data point? Cardano has been in second place for Transaction volume for about a week now (it actually surpassed Bitcoin at one point). Of note: Bitcoin and Cardano are running neck and neck at $16.9B and $14.3 respectively.…