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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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Poolperks

We have registered for Poolperks and if you are a delegator to one of the ADAvault pools you can claim a commemorative Alonzo era certified delegator NFT. We plan to issue an NFT for each transition (for example Basho and Voltaire). And the intention is that delegators who collect them all and stay delegating with…

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Concurrency- say that again…

There has been some heated debate amongst the denizens of Crypto Twitter lately about the supposed challenges that Cardano faces to run Smart Contracts at scale. Cardano uses a blockchain data structure for transactions called extended UTXO (Unspent Transaction Outputs) or eUTXO, which is derived from Bitcoin. It is a battle tested design with some…

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Let’s stay focussed

We always avoid criticising of other projects or blockchains. This is not a zero sum game. There is plenty of room at the top and opportunities in this rapidly growing sector for more than one chain to be successful. There is plenty to learn from one another within a healthy competitive environment. Unfortunately that discipline…

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Cardano Updates

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.