Just read a really good article by Frederik Gregard (CEO of the Cardano Foundation) on the Cardano Foundation forum on the recent GameStop events. Frederik opens: If recent events have revealed anything, it is that trust in the traditional financial infrastructure powering our global capital markets has been eroding—especially among retail investors. The GameStop (GME)…
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Leaving Shelley
We will soon be heading into the Goguen Era with Cardano. Lets take a moment to reflect on the Shelley Era with one of Percy Shelley’s most famous poems? I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,…
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Market Cap
We are not big fans of dwelling overly on market cap and the price of ADA. Analysing charts is not a productive use of time, and there is no strong short term correlation between price and real value. However you may have noticed that the price of Cardano has gone up a lot since staking…
Elliot Hill has recently published a really interesting Blog post on Medium exploring how permissions-less blockchains may provide the best platforms for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). He notes: Central bank digital currencies, often abbreviated to CBDCs, are digital analogs of fiat currencies, such as the US dollar or Japanese yen, issued at a state…
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Cardano Node 1.25.1
It’s upgrade time. Cardano Node 1.25.1 has been released ready for the ‘hard fork’ due at the end of February which will enable Native Tokens on mainnet. From the release notes: This release is expected to be the final release for the upcoming Mary hard fork, and everyone must upgrade to this (or a later) version to…