A new initiative to plant a Cardano Forest has been launched by the Cardano Foundation in conjunction with the Climate Neutral Cardano Group (we are part of the founding cohort of stake pools), which has a goal to plant a million trees. It’s only been launched for a day and as of writing has already…
Cardano Summit
So we are almost at the Cardano Summit for 2021. This year it will be a mix of virtual and physical meetings around the globe on 25th and 26th September. The virtual world looks pretty amazing (it’s on the back of a turtle). The agenda has just been published and it looks packed as ever.…
Smart contracts are live
The Cardano blockchain transitioned smoothly to the Alonzo era with the capability for smart contracts going live from 21:45UTC on the 12th September. This long awaited feature is one of the major roadmap goals defined for the project and is a very significant milestone. Last night, along with many other community members we took the…
Poolperks
We have registered for Poolperks and if you are a delegator to one of the ADAvault pools you can claim a commemorative Alonzo era certified delegator NFT. We plan to issue an NFT for each transition (for example Basho and Voltaire). And the intention is that delegators who collect them all and stay delegating with…
New Daedalus Release
New release of our favourite dark mode wallet from Darko and team. From the release notes: Daedalus 4.3.1 for the Cardano mainnet brings Alonzo support. It also includes a countdown for the Alonzo upgrade activation, improved presentation of windows, enhancements to transaction management, and support for the upcoming Trezor hardware wallet firmware update. https://iohk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406192725913 You…