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Why tokenomics matter

A busy week in the crypto markets, triggered by the collapse of the StableCoin Terra and the non stable reserve Luna, has led to some soul searching by commentators, and a lot of articles in the main stream media predicting the imminent demise of cryptocurrencies (again). But was it surprising? For us the answer is…

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Cardano Updates

Africa Update

John O’Connor has just posted an update on progress with the Africa deals that have been inked to date. Good progress has been made to date on the education deal in Ethiopia with more than a million users and identities planned to be onboarded.

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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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Cardano360 April

Cardano360 is hot off the press for April and has a developer focus this month with news on Marlowe, Cardano’s Domain Specific Language for Smart Contracts. This will be an important addition to the development capabilities available and promises to open up smart contracts to new cohorts of business focussed users as well as the…

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Cardano Foundation expand research with Zurich University

A recent Cointelegraph article covers a new three-year collaboration by the Cardano Foundation (based in Zug, Switzerland) with the Blockchain Center of the University of Zurich (UZH BCC) to further research initiatives and explore blockchain education development.  Through the partnership, the foundation will work with the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (BDLT) Group at the…