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Poolperks

We have registered for Poolperks and if you are a delegator to one of the ADAvault pools you can claim a commemorative Alonzo era certified delegator NFT. We plan to issue an NFT for each transition (for example Basho and Voltaire). And the intention is that delegators who collect them all and stay delegating with…

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Cardano Updates

New Daedalus Release

New release of our favourite dark mode wallet from Darko and team. From the release notes: Daedalus 4.3.1 for the Cardano mainnet brings Alonzo support. It also includes a countdown for the Alonzo upgrade activation, improved presentation of windows, enhancements to transaction management, and support for the upcoming Trezor hardware wallet firmware update. https://iohk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406192725913 You…

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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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Cardano Community

Let’s stay focussed

We always avoid criticising of other projects or blockchains. This is not a zero sum game. There is plenty of room at the top and opportunities in this rapidly growing sector for more than one chain to be successful. There is plenty to learn from one another within a healthy competitive environment. Unfortunately that discipline…

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Musings

Can we have prosperity without growth?

An interesting article in the New Yorker caught our eye recently exploring how economic orthodoxy is being challenged. Specifically how the critique of non-stop economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis. From our perspective much of the article gets it absolutely right, but it misses…