It’s that time again. The February 2022 edition of Cardano360 has just been released, with updates on Cardano developments across the ecosystem. As ever lots of updates from host Tim Harrison and regulars. Shared for your convenience below.
Transaction volume
So lets take a moment to examine this table from Messari. Spot the interesting and very important data point? Cardano has been in second place for Transaction volume for about a week now (it actually surpassed Bitcoin at one point). Of note: Bitcoin and Cardano are running neck and neck at $16.9B and $14.3 respectively.…
Pipelining…why does it matter?
We talked in a recent blog post about Hydra which is one the core layer 2 scaling technologies which will be rolling out for Cardano this year. Another part of the scaling puzzle is pipelining which John Woods (Director of Cardano Architecture) covers in a recent blog post. Pipelining – or more precisely, diffusion pipelining…
Daedalus Update
A new version 4.8.0 of Daedalus has been released which brings significant performance improvements. From the release notes: This Daedalus release integrates the latest version of cardano-wallet, which supports Cardano node v1.33.0. This latest Cardano node version brings a significant performance improvement. For computers with less than 16GB of RAM, a new splash screen is displayed,…
Hydra and scaling
Some news on Hydra progress which is a key Layer 2 (L2) component to help Cardano scale out in the coming years. Matthias Benkort, IOG Software Engineering Lead explores Hydra goals in a recent blog post. Hydra is an ensemble of layer 2 solutions designed to address network security and scalability capabilities. Originally conceived within…