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Chang Fork

The date has been set for the Chang fork event when CIP-1694 will kick in. At this point Cardano will become arguably the most decentralised block chain on the planet as on-chain governance passes to the community via dReps and Intersect, the members based organisation. dReps will perform a similar role to elected representatives in…

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Ouroboros Leios

Not featured a CH vid for a while. Some details in this one in the planned improvements to the base layer of Cardano consensus and block propagation which will enable the system to scale to hundreds of millions of users. We will write some more on this topic soon. In the meantime worth a watch…

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Cardano Foundation Activity Report

For those new to the ecosystem, The Cardano Foundation is an independent, Swiss-based not-for-profit organization tasked with advancing Cardano as a public digital infrastructure across a wide range of industries. They have just published the Activity report for 2023, with a summary by the CEO Frederik Gregaard. Fred has been is that role for a few years…

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Edinburgh Decentralisation Index

Some good progress on the Decentralisation Index being developed by Edinburgh University to provide an objective measure on top level cryptocurrencies. The group have just released version 1 of the dashboard. Obviously good to see that Cardano measures up well, but in all honesty it’s something ecosystem participants already knew. The value will be in…

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Messari report- State of Cardano Q4 2023

Another very encouraging report from Messari that showcases the growth in the Cardano ecosystem has continued apace during the last quarter of 2023. They note: Cardano’s average daily transactions grew by 10.9% QoQ, outpacing the 1.6% QoQ growth in daily active addresses. The ratio of transactions to active addresses grew steadily over the past year,…