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Rosen Bridge

Bridges are an important part of the crypto landscape to provide liquidity and integration between crypto ecosystems such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cardano. Historically though, bridges have suffered from insecure and centralised implementations with a long history of compromise by threat actors. A new bridge between Cardano and Ergo (simplistically a PoW partner of Cardano)…

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Ethereum 2.0 analysis

A recent blog post by BitMEX research on Ethereum 2.0 caught our eye recently and we though it was worth sharing. A while ago we noted that Cardano had a window of opportunity before Ethereum moved to Proof of Stake. It looks like that window may be longer than we initially anticipated. The blog post…

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Bringing ERC20 to Cardano

Ok, so you might be thinking, “What is ERC20 and why do I care?”. ERC20 is the smart contract standard used by Ethereum. It’s become the pre-eminent standard at this point, and while the smart contract environment that Cardano will shortly offer has many advantages there are a lot of projects on Ethereum that are…

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Cross Chain Communication

This YouTube clip from Charles was released about 3 months ago, but does a great job explaining the approach to interoperability between chains, tokens, and native assets on the Cardano blockchain. This links back to the previous post on Open Source which touches on tokens. It explains how NiPoPoWs (Non-Interactive Proofs of Proof-of-Work) will be…