For those new to the ecosystem, The Cardano Foundation is an independent, Swiss-based not-for-profit organization tasked with advancing Cardano as a public digital infrastructure across a wide range of industries. They have just published the Activity report for 2023, with a summary by the CEO Frederik Gregaard. Fred has been is that role for a few years…
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Edinburgh Decentralisation Index
Some good progress on the Decentralisation Index being developed by Edinburgh University to provide an objective measure on top level cryptocurrencies. The group have just released version 1 of the dashboard. Obviously good to see that Cardano measures up well, but in all honesty it’s something ecosystem participants already knew. The value will be in…
Another very encouraging report from Messari that showcases the growth in the Cardano ecosystem has continued apace during the last quarter of 2023. They note: Cardano’s average daily transactions grew by 10.9% QoQ, outpacing the 1.6% QoQ growth in daily active addresses. The ratio of transactions to active addresses grew steadily over the past year,…
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Rosen Bridge
Bridges are an important part of the crypto landscape to provide liquidity and integration between crypto ecosystems such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cardano. Historically though, bridges have suffered from insecure and centralised implementations with a long history of compromise by threat actors. A new bridge between Cardano and Ergo (simplistically a PoW partner of Cardano)…
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Cardano 360 November
It’s that time of the month again! Updates from the recent summit in Dubai feature heavily this month. Loads happening as ever. Details: The Voltaire update shared that the Cardano Ballot on CIP1694 opens on Dec 1 and closes on Dec 11 at 21:44 UTC. It’s worth submitting your feedback in this non-binding poll on…