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Cardano Foundation expand research with Zurich University

A recent Cointelegraph article covers a new three-year collaboration by the Cardano Foundation (based in Zug, Switzerland) with the Blockchain Center of the University of Zurich (UZH BCC) to further research initiatives and explore blockchain education development.  Through the partnership, the foundation will work with the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (BDLT) Group at the…

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Cardano Forest

A new initiative to plant a Cardano Forest has been launched by the Cardano Foundation in conjunction with the Climate Neutral Cardano Group (we are part of the founding cohort of stake pools), which has a goal to plant a million trees. It’s only been launched for a day and as of writing has already…

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Cardano Foundation Strategy

Frederik Gregaard was recently appointed as CEO for the Cardano Foundation. You may already know that Cardano has a trinity structure: Cardano Foundation are the not for profit arm, responsible for long term governance and stewardship for the Cardano Ecosystem. IO Group (IOG, formerly IOHK), the development organisation, responsible for building the code and tools.…

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Blockchain will bring trust back into capital markets

Just read a really good article by Frederik Gregard (CEO of the Cardano Foundation) on the Cardano Foundation forum on the recent GameStop events. Frederik opens: If recent events have revealed anything, it is that trust in the traditional financial infrastructure powering our global capital markets has been eroding—especially among retail investors. The GameStop (GME)…

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Cardano Foundation 2020 Review

Nice summary video of achievements during 2020, and some great shots of the sights around Zurich where they are based. Lots of energy and improvements from the foundation during 2020, it seems as though the organisational changes they made a while back are starting to come together now under Frederik Gregaard’s leadership. There’s more in…