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Decentralisation and security matters

Charles spoke at the Binance Conference in Dubai a few weeks ago and touched on decentralisation. He got a fair reception all things considered (Binance have one of the most centralised chains around which is largely a cut and paste of Ethereum). You may be familiar with the blockchain trilemma of scalability (or speed), security…

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Cardano Performance Improvements

We thought it was worth an update on progress improving the speed at which Cardano processes smart contracts and transactions. As Cardano adoption has accelerated this has become increasing important to enable the chain to maintain growth rates. It’s on the critical path now to support the large numbers of projects that are due to…

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Transaction volume

So lets take a moment to examine this table from Messari. Spot the interesting and very important data point? Cardano has been in second place for Transaction volume for about a week now (it actually surpassed Bitcoin at one point). Of note: Bitcoin and Cardano are running neck and neck at $16.9B and $14.3 respectively.…

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Pipelining…why does it matter?

We talked in a recent blog post about Hydra which is one the core layer 2 scaling technologies which will be rolling out for Cardano this year. Another part of the scaling puzzle is pipelining which John Woods (Director of Cardano Architecture) covers in a recent blog post. Pipelining – or more precisely, diffusion pipelining…

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New Year 2022

2021 has been an unusual year by any standards, and we wanted to drop a quick note to wish all our delegators the best for 2022. A lot has happened in the Cardano world during the last year, and we as we start 2022 we stand at the threshold of another significant year where we…