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More details on Marlowe

Marlowe is the Domain Specific Language (DSL) that will be used to write financial contracts that run on Cardano. This months’ Cardano360 will have more details, and Shruti Appiah, Engineering product manager will be joining the show. She notes in a recent blog post that: With Marlowe, we aim to democratize finance by facilitating peer-to-peer…

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Africa Special Summary

TLDR; of the Africa Special #CardanoAfrica 5m users for digital IDs, 30m in pipeline for Ethiopia New telco in Tanzania, 50% price, 2x speed @WorldMobileTeam 5 new African countries by 2021, 20 countries 2022 100m loanbook after Alonzo doing #RealFi Plus: SingularityNET partnership: building AI in Africa iceaddis: the pan-African technology incubator Cardano Foundation: working with…

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Ethiopia overhauls its education system with IOHK blockchain partnership

Big news, and we got this a bit early. From the CityAM article today: Global blockchain research and development company IOHK has announced a unique partnership with the government of Ethiopia. The link-up will implement a blockchain-based national student and teacher ID and attainment recording system to digitally verify grades, remotely monitor school performance and…

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Africa Special

This one has been a while in the making. We are likely to get some significant news this week when the Africa Special airs this Thursday 29th April 16:30UTC. You can register on the site for news and updates.

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IOHK on Sky News

IOHK Media Director Rod Alexander was recently on Sky News, and talked a little bit about block chains potential. Good to see IOHK getting some more coverage from the main stream media channels.