Quick post on a recent whiteboard video from Charles covering side chains and digging into the architecture of Cardano. He explores the original essay which outlined a settlement layer (essentially Ourobouros which is now in place) with highly secure, reliable and decentralised characteristics, and associated computation layers (or side Chains) which can rely on the…
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CH interview with Messari
Ryan Selkis interviewed Charles at the Messari Mainnet conference recently. Kudos to CH for agreeing to do this (if you are aware of Ryan’s public statements over the years you will understand the reason for that comment). Well worth a watch, a very factual overview of the Cardano proposition and why we are just getting…
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2022 Brand Report
News just in that Cardano has made it into the top 30 of the Brand Intimacy Report for 2022 at #26, edging ahead of BMW, IKEA and many other big names including Bitcoin which is four places behind. A good sign that wider awareness is building.
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More papers!
A couple of new research papers have just been released by the research powerhouse that is Prof Aggelos Kiayias and team. Worth linking because they both move the current state of knowledge forward significantly. Both worth reading, albeit complex to understand. Firstly PEReDi: Privacy-Enhanced, Regulated and Distributed Central Bank Digital Currencies, by Aggelos Kiayias, Markulf…
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Babel Fees Overview
An update on Babel Fees is just out, one of the improvements which will be coming to Cardano in the not too distant future. Babel Fees are a novel mechanism that allows the payment of transaction fees in user-defined tokens on Cardano. In this video Polina Vinogradova, IOG’s research engineer walks us through an overview…