ADAvaultMarlowe is the Domain Specific Language (DSL) that will be used to write financial contracts that run on Cardano. This months’ Cardano360 will have more details, and Shruti Appiah, Engineering product manager will be joining the show. She notes in a recent blog post that: With Marlowe, we aim to democratize finance by facilitating peer-to-peer…
Ok, so you might be thinking, “What is ERC20 and why do I care?”. ERC20 is the smart contract standard used by Ethereum. It’s become the pre-eminent standard at this point, and while the smart contract environment that Cardano will shortly offer has many advantages there are a lot of projects on Ethereum that are…
A new release of Cardano Node from the development team. A lot of new features have been added ready for the Alonzo Smart contracts era. From the release notes: Node version 1.27.0 provides important new functionality, including supporting new CLI commands that have been requested by stake pools, providing garbage collection metrics.It includes the performance…
A new version of the Daedalus wallet is available. From the release notes: Daedalus 4.0.5 updates the Catalyst voting registration feature to address the new Fund4 schedule, and also resolves some minor issues. https://iohk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/900006675083 As ever we recommend to upgrade in the wallet by starting then accepting the upgrade option. You may not have explored…
A new version of Cardano Node has been released as part of the transition to Smart contracts in Alonzo. There will be another release before that however this version makes a number of changes that will support the transition along with a large number of performance improvements. From the release notes: This release includes significant…
