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Smart contracts are live

The Cardano blockchain transitioned smoothly to the Alonzo era with the capability for smart contracts going live from 21:45UTC on the 12th September. This long awaited feature is one of the major roadmap goals defined for the project and is a very significant milestone. Last night, along with many other community members we took the…

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New Daedalus Release

New release of our favourite dark mode wallet from Darko and team. From the release notes: Daedalus 4.3.1 for the Cardano mainnet brings Alonzo support. It also includes a countdown for the Alonzo upgrade activation, improved presentation of windows, enhancements to transaction management, and support for the upcoming Trezor hardware wallet firmware update. https://iohk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406192725913 You…

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Smart Contracts Date

The date has been scheduled as 12th September for the transition to smart contracts. This is the Hard Fork Combinator (HFC) event which will transition the Cardano blockchain to the Alonzo era. Tim and crew have details in the mid monthly update.

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Alonzo Progress

A short update from Charles on progress towards Smart Contracts (spoiler- it’s on track), and some other snippets on Cardano Foundation, growth of the wider ecosystem, and Catalyst Funding. The window of opportunity for Cardano to take significant market share still remains before Ethereum switches to Proof of Stake and resolves longstanding performance issues. Fortunately…

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Research Team update

Tim interviews Aggelos. Really good update on the research agenda and goals. For us here at ADAvault the strong research driven agenda behind Cardano has always massive part of the attraction to the project. That and the fact that the research team are truly world class.