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Plutus Explainer

John Woods has been at it again. A high level explanation of Plutus, which for those of you who have been in this space for any time will already know is Cardano’s Smart Contract Language. One of John’s gifts is his ability to communicate complex topics in a simple and understandable way, distilling out the…

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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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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…