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Cardano 360 August 2023

Another packed update from Tim and the team, also embedded below for your convenience: In this August edition of Cardano360, we explore the innovative ADA Handle collaboration simplifying wallet addresses with Lace and Eternl, Mithril’s milestone mainnet launch and its growing community involvement, Project Catalyst’s empowerment of the Cardano community through Fund10 and voting opportunities.…

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State of Cardano Q2-23

The new quarterly State of Cardano report is out from Messari covering the period from March to June 2023. Some positive trends in the metrics again with activity on chain increasing through the quarter. Highlights they note include: It’s a fair and balanced report and is recommended reading. Their closing summary captures things well: New…

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New Daedalus Release

If you are using Daedalus, Cardano’s full node wallet, then it’s time to upgrade to version 5.3.0 which will add the ability to vote on the latest Catalyst round. It also adds a few improvements under the covers on dependencies such as Cardano node and slightly improves start up and sync times (based on our…

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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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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…