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Marlowe Update

Great blog post from Professor Simon Thomson at IOHK on Marlowe which will bring industry scale finance contracts to Cardano: In this post, we introduce Marlowe, a new language for financial contracts, and describe the benefits of it being a domain-specific language (DSL). As a DSL it describes only financial contracts, rather than smart contracts in…

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Cardano Updates

Cardano Node 1.21.1 Released

From the release notes: This release includes support in the cardano-cli for multi-signature addresses and transactions. It also resolves a problem that has been affecting pool operators at the 48-hour mark within each epoch. It has various other minor improvements and fixes detailed below. The “Live View” mode for the Cardano node is being deprecated in favour…

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New version of Daedalus

A new version 2.3.0 of the wallet is available. From the release notes: The Daedalus 2.3.0 release delivers automatic updates, removing the need for manually downloading Daedalus installers in the future. This release also brings improvements to the delegation user experience with improved stake pool ranking and off-chain data aggregation server (SMASH). Daedalus is now…

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Singularity Net

If you love AI and you love Cardano you’ll love this….

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PoS versus PoW (2/2)

In the first part of this post we examined how the properties of Bitcoin, which enabled it to bootstrap the cryptocurrency ecosystem in 2009, became a problem as it scaled to millions of users with a network value of billions of dollars. Primarily use of the Proof of Work (PoW) protocol which leads to: Excessive…