There’s been a lot of speculation on X over the weekend about the nature of a crypto advisory role that Charles might have with the incoming administration in the U.S. Certainly he is well placed to assist on policy matters given he has previously represented the industry at congressional hearings, and has a long history…
Cardano 360
The regular monthly Cardano 360 update has just dropped from Tim and crew, and as usual there’s a lot happening. This month we’re celebrating a handful of the community events that have taken place around the world, including multiple summit events and Charles’ keynote address in Argentina, ‘After Voltaire: the next evolution of Cardano.’ Intersect…
Bitcoin x Cardano
Some interesting news from the recent Cardano Summit in Dubai. BitcoinOS have succeeded in verifying the first ZK-Proof on Bitcoin, upgrading it to do everything that other blockchains can (albeit a little bit slower). And it did this without forking its code. So this opens up a lot of interesting options and one of the…
Midnight (at the oasis)
We’ve been tracking Midnight for a while, and the shape is starting to come into focus. There’s been some concern that it would not be coupled with Cardano, but that’s misplaced. It will be a side chain and use Cardano as the initial basis for the block security, but bringing together a number of research…
A new era
And just like that we are into a new era on the Cardano blockchain. As ever with Cardano a simple smooth transition, across the hard fork at approx 21:45UTC on September 1st 2024. All ADAvault nodes have now been upgraded to 9.1.1 and are performing as expected. Some positive media coverage even including Coindesk!