Messari has just released a report covering the Cardano Ecosystem with some very positive statistics: Starting to see some real DeFi growth now, across the exchanges running on Cardano, with a good blend of stable coins, tokens, and even meme coins! We’ve got some favourites in the mix such as Djed/Shen and WMT where we…
P2P networking
Duncan Coutts is one of the great unsung heroes of the Cardano universe. He was instrumental in the original design of the node and networking layer, including the “secret weapon” of the Hard Fork Combinator that enables seamless protocol upgrades without needing to hard fork the chain. Duncan has been working on the P2P networking…
CIP 1694 Voltaire Governance
We recommend checking out the proposal on GitHub for CIP1694 that proposes an approach for Governance of Cardano in the Voltaire era. It’s an elegant and impressive document, both for the obvious thought that has gone into it, and for the simplicity that has been achieved for what is a very complex topic. The core…
Contingent Staking and Schelling Fences
There’s been a lot of talk in recent days about a proposal for Contingent Staking (CS) which could be implemented on Cardano to enable SPO’s to set conditions that delegators must meet, such as their nationality. This could technically implemented by using DIDs, necessary metadata and a multi-sig transaction for delegation. This proposal has caused…
There’s a lot in the pipeline
A short and non exhaustive list of things we have to look forward to across the Cardano ecosystem in the coming months through 2023: A lot to look forward to… we’ll keep updating this post with links, and comments on these and why they matter.