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Market Cap

We are not big fans of dwelling overly on market cap and the price of ADA. Analysing charts is not a productive use of time, and there is no strong short term correlation between price and real value. However you may have noticed that the price of Cardano has gone up a lot since staking…

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Building the World’s new reserve currency

Elliot Hill has recently published a really interesting Blog post on Medium exploring how permissions-less blockchains may provide the best platforms for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). He notes: Central bank digital currencies, often abbreviated to CBDCs, are digital analogs of fiat currencies, such as the US dollar or Japanese yen, issued at a state…

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Cardano Updates

Cardano Node 1.25.1

It’s upgrade time. Cardano Node 1.25.1 has been released ready for the ‘hard fork’ due at the end of February which will enable Native Tokens on mainnet. From the release notes: This release is expected to be the final release for the upcoming Mary hard fork, and everyone must upgrade to this (or a later) version to…

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Building Fairer Financial Systems

Charles is genuinely one of the leading thinkers in the Cryptocurrency space. He recently delivered the keynote speech at The North American Bitcoin Conference. In the speech he touches on on the motivation for Cardano, and covers some of the amazing opportunities we have for innovation in the coming years as the ecosystem continues to…

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Cardano Node Security Monitoring

Modern security practices require a balanced focus between prevention, detection and response capabilities. Implementing Cardano Node on Linux gives a secure base to start, with some basic things that should be in place to lock down access for relays and block producing nodes: But even the best security defences can be breached. And this is…