ADAvaultWe are fast approaching full decentralisation of the Cardano network with all blocks produced by Stake Pool Operators (SPOs) with the transition set to occur on March 31st, at the boundary of epoch 257. As Colin Edwards, Quantitative Strategist at IOHK, notes in this blog post: At the end of March, we’ll reach another significant…
Those of you who have been following this blog for a while will know that we are big fans of Dr Ben Goertzel who is the founder of SingularityNET, a decentralized platform for AI apps. So you can imagine that we were pleased to see that the recent vote on the SingularityNET phase 2 proposal…
Modern security practices require a balanced focus between prevention, detection and response capabilities. Implementing Cardano Node on Linux gives a secure base to start, with some basic things that should be in place to lock down access for relays and block producing nodes: But even the best security defences can be breached. And this is…
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…
Nice summary video of achievements during 2020, and some great shots of the sights around Zurich where they are based. Lots of energy and improvements from the foundation during 2020, it seems as though the organisational changes they made a while back are starting to come together now under Frederik Gregaard’s leadership. There’s more in…
