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Cardano Foundation Activity Report

For those new to the ecosystem, The Cardano Foundation is an independent, Swiss-based not-for-profit organization tasked with advancing Cardano as a public digital infrastructure across a wide range of industries. They have just published the Activity report for 2023, with a summary by the CEO Frederik Gregaard. Fred has been is that role for a few years…

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Edinburgh Decentralisation Index

Some good progress on the Decentralisation Index being developed by Edinburgh University to provide an objective measure on top level cryptocurrencies. The group have just released version 1 of the dashboard. Obviously good to see that Cardano measures up well, but in all honesty it’s something ecosystem participants already knew. The value will be in…

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Messari report- State of Cardano Q4 2023

Another very encouraging report from Messari that showcases the growth in the Cardano ecosystem has continued apace during the last quarter of 2023. They note: Cardano’s average daily transactions grew by 10.9% QoQ, outpacing the 1.6% QoQ growth in daily active addresses. The ratio of transactions to active addresses grew steadily over the past year,…

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Site Announcements

Hardware upgrades

We’ve just completed a round of upgrades to the ADAvault hardware stack which we use to host all infrastructure we run. Compute is now based on AMD EPYC rather than Intel as we found that the AMD offering was more competitive at this refresh, resulting in approximately 200% increase in processing power and cores available.…

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Growth Strategy

A great video update from Charles has just landed covering the Electric Capital developer report, which among other areas explores development ecosystems and community links across chains. You’ll recall if you’ve been following Cardano for a while that this has been an area that Charles has had focus on from the early days (recall the…