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SEC enforcement actions

You are likely aware of the recent enforcement actions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission against Binance U.S. and Coinbase. These actions state the exchanges have been selling Securities and are not licensed to do so. Examples of Securities as stated by the SEC include ADA along with a number of other leading cryptocurrencies.…

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Cardano Community

CIP-1694 Workshop Materials

Some great materials have been created for the CIP-1694 workshops that are taking place around the world. For those of you who haven’t been following closely, CIP-1694 is a core governance capability due to be delivered in the final phase of the Cardano Roadmap. Sharing them below for convenience. They provide an clear visual summary…

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Cardano Community

First CIP-0094 On Chain Poll

The first CIP-0094 on chain poll of the Voltaire era is now live on mainnet. The Cardano Foundation are running the poll, and results are simply indicative of views and will allow polling mechanisms and community interaction to be explored. They will not cause any changes until Voltaire governance has been developed further. The Foundation…

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Cardano Updates

State of Cardano Q1 2023

Messari has just released a report covering the Cardano Ecosystem with some very positive statistics: Starting to see some real DeFi growth now, across the exchanges running on Cardano, with a good blend of stable coins, tokens, and even meme coins! We’ve got some favourites in the mix such as Djed/Shen and WMT where we…

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Cardano Updates

P2P networking

Duncan Coutts is one of the great unsung heroes of the Cardano universe. He was instrumental in the original design of the node and networking layer, including the “secret weapon” of the Hard Fork Combinator that enables seamless protocol upgrades without needing to hard fork the chain. Duncan has been working on the P2P networking…