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People of IOG- Dr. Lars Brunjes

Charles has been running an interview series which you may have noticed. This episode with Lars caught our eye recently, super interesting to hear him talking about growing up in Germany during the 80’s prior to the wall coming down. We really like how this series showcases IOG staff and gives an insight into the…

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Cardano Ecosystem

The breadth and depth of the Cardano ecosystem is becoming truly world-class. It’s now more than 150 organisations from across the globe. The growth rate is remarkable. From outstanding academic institutions like Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge, Zurich, Athens and Urbana-Champaign to leading edge technology companies like Wolfram Alpha and SingularityNet, through a roster of the…

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Peer to peer lending

Charles spends 10 minutes talking through the opportunities, and transformational potential if widespread P2P lending can be safely unlocked. There is immense opportunity to globally equalise opportunity in the 21st century through consistent access to identity, secure money, and financial services. Cardano’s goal is to be a fundamental catalyst in that change.

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‘d=0’ Day

We 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…

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SingularityNET phase 2

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…