ADAvaultCardano passed an important milestone in recent weeks. It wasn’t the price of ADA, as welcome as the increase is for people who have held it since the peak in 2017. No, it was the size of the stake pool network that secures the Cardano block chain and which uses Proof of Stake rather than…
We were reviewing the Polkadot design the other day and noted that they are using libp2p for the networking layer. It fits in with the project ethos, has enabled developing the system quickly, and after all why go to the trouble of building a custom networking layer? What did Cardano do? They didn’t use libp2p.…
A new release of our favourite wallet (do those guys ever rest?). From the release notes: Daedalus 3.1.0 delivers support for the upcoming ‘Cardano app for Ledger’ hardware device functionality and is required for continued use of Daedalus with Ledger hardware devices . This is to support users who upgrade their Cardano app on their Ledger hardware…
12 years. Birthday wishes from Charles, who captures the sentiment and spirit perfectly. The cryptocurrency innovation that the Bitcoin has unleashed is just starting. Here’s looking forward to the next 12 years.
Some notes on the network structure for Cardano as this is not very clear from the official documentation. Syncing the blockchain depends on outbound connections to other nodes The node needs to connect to other well-synchronised nodes to collect the latest blockchain slots. There are a few ways to acheive this: Connect to the IOHK…
