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Musings

Another look at network effects

A recent article in The Economist covering the current health status of some of the tech ‘darlings’ caught our eye: Over the past year, the firms that epitomise these [new tech] business models — Uber and DoorDash; Netflix and Spotify; and Snap and Meta (which has tumbled spectacularly out of the trillion-dollar club) — have…

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Cardano Updates

Cardano 360

Another packed episode from Tim and the team for the September Cardano 360. Info on the recently announced Stanford Research Hub, Mongolia trip, Mithril, Haskell Bootcamp and more. We tremendously appreciate the effort that goes into these to provide transparency on IOG progress for core projects and development across the ecosystem. It makes a big…

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Interesting links

CH interview with Messari

Ryan Selkis interviewed Charles at the Messari Mainnet conference recently. Kudos to CH for agreeing to do this (if you are aware of Ryan’s public statements over the years you will understand the reason for that comment). Well worth a watch, a very factual overview of the Cardano proposition and why we are just getting…

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Cardano Updates

Vasil update

Quick post to confirm that the update on the 22nd September has completed successfully, and the new capabilities will be available on Mainnet from the 27th September. A smooth transition from our perspective. Further updates after the 27th as the new capabilities start to be used.

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Cardano Updates

Mid month update

The regular update from Tim, Nigel and Kevin which covers the last few days in the run up to the Vasil upgrade is available on YouTube. On track, and we also have confirmation that the upgrade vote was submitted to the network ready for the 22nd September. This means that the upgrade vote will trigger…