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State of Cardano Q3-23

Time for the regular Messari report on the Cardano ecosystem. The key insights are: Strong progress as usual across the board. DeFi stablecoin progress has been particularly encouraging, showing a significant increase across the depths of the bear market.

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Scaling with Mithril

There are a few new scaling technologies on the roadmap that will help Cardano to operate faster and accommodate more users and dApps. The main ones planned are: In the recent paper by Pyrros Chaidos, and Prof Aggelos Kiayias they explore a new stake-based primitive, stake-based threshold multisignatures (STM, or “Mithril” signatures), which allows the…

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Cardano 360 August 2023

Another packed update from Tim and the team, also embedded below for your convenience: In this August edition of Cardano360, we explore the innovative ADA Handle collaboration simplifying wallet addresses with Lace and Eternl, Mithril’s milestone mainnet launch and its growing community involvement, Project Catalyst’s empowerment of the Cardano community through Fund10 and voting opportunities.…

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State of Cardano Q2-23

The new quarterly State of Cardano report is out from Messari covering the period from March to June 2023. Some positive trends in the metrics again with activity on chain increasing through the quarter. Highlights they note include: It’s a fair and balanced report and is recommended reading. Their closing summary captures things well: New…

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New Daedalus Release

If you are using Daedalus, Cardano’s full node wallet, then it’s time to upgrade to version 5.3.0 which will add the ability to vote on the latest Catalyst round. It also adds a few improvements under the covers on dependencies such as Cardano node and slightly improves start up and sync times (based on our…