Categories
Cardano Updates

Goguen: The Third Era

Update from Emurgo on Goguen in this Blog post which looks into how this phase will bring Cardano close to completion: Goguen could be the most important release for the Cardano blockchain network. This phase will introduce many new and exciting features – most notably smart contracts, which will open up a lot more tangible opportunities…

Categories
Musings

Cardano Global Adoption

At ADAvault we use Cloudflare for DDoS protection and CDN caching. An interesting byproduct of this that we get data for use of the Daedalus wallet access on a per country basis. This is because the wallet checks the json files on our site for data on the ADV stake pool, and therefore this gives…

Categories
Cardano Updates

Marlowe Update

Great blog post from Professor Simon Thomson at IOHK on Marlowe which will bring industry scale finance contracts to Cardano: In this post, we introduce Marlowe, a new language for financial contracts, and describe the benefits of it being a domain-specific language (DSL). As a DSL it describes only financial contracts, rather than smart contracts in…

Categories
Cardano Updates

Cardano Node 1.21.1 Released

From the release notes: This release includes support in the cardano-cli for multi-signature addresses and transactions. It also resolves a problem that has been affecting pool operators at the 48-hour mark within each epoch. It has various other minor improvements and fixes detailed below. The “Live View” mode for the Cardano node is being deprecated in favour…

Categories
Interesting links

New version of Daedalus

A new version 2.3.0 of the wallet is available. From the release notes: The Daedalus 2.3.0 release delivers automatic updates, removing the need for manually downloading Daedalus installers in the future. This release also brings improvements to the delegation user experience with improved stake pool ranking and off-chain data aggregation server (SMASH). Daedalus is now…