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Pool tuning

We’ve been tuning the ADV and ADV2 stake pool architecture over the last few days. It has been running well since we implemented at the end of July 2020 when the ADV pool went live, but we have recently invested in upgraded hardware for the primary and secondary clusters and took the opportunity while rebuilding…

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Cardano Community

Cardano Foundation 2020 Review

Nice summary video of achievements during 2020, and some great shots of the sights around Zurich where they are based. Lots of energy and improvements from the foundation during 2020, it seems as though the organisational changes they made a while back are starting to come together now under Frederik Gregaard’s leadership. There’s more in…

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Oracles!

Want to know about Oracles and how they will work on Cardano? This is the introduction you have been waiting for…

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Cardano Updates

IOHK partners with Wolfram

IOHK have struck a deal with Wolfram, and Cardano will join Bitcoin and Ethereum in integrating into Wolfram’s industry leading technology and knowledge base, Wolfram Alpha. You probably already know that Wolfram’s knowledge base and Natural Language Processing technology helps power agents like Siri and Alexa. The blog post notes: We are currently defining a…

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Cardano Community

Cardano ‘Elevator Pitch’

Charles covered ‘Why Cardano?’ in a recent AMA. In 2 minutes he explains the Cardano mission and how it aims to change the world to using a single financial system, empowering people without access to identity, banking, insurance, and other financial services that many people in the ‘West’ take for granted. This mission goes back…