ADAvaultA recent YouTube update from Charles Hoskinson touches on markets and the ecosystem for cryptocurrencies, reminding us of some of the important aspects that are in play at the moment, and the transformational impact they will have. If you’ve not watched any videos from Charles yet, this is 18 mins that’s worth the investment, and…
We are entering the next phase of money when it becomes programmable. This in a nutshell is the promise of Smart Contracts, and has the potential to be a major revolution similar in impact to the invention of the printing press. But there are challenges to making Smart contracts reliable and secure so that you…
We were pleased to see ADV ranked at #1 in Daedalus when we checked at the beginning of Epoch 260. That’s 2 pools in the top 20. There is some luck in it of course, both pools have had a great run over the last 5-10 Epochs. But there is also an element of getting…
We’ve been messing around with Cardano-db-sync which puts the entire block chain into a Postgres SQL database instance, and means you can easily access via SQL or PostgREST. This will allow us to start offering some better realtime stats for our delegators, and lay the foundations for some services we are planning to develop. As…
So we have now passed the point where the decentralisation parameter “d” reaches zero. What does this mean? The d parameter sets the amount of blocks produced by Stake Pools (like ADAvault) versus the genesis nodes operated by IOG (the creators of the Cardano system). At the start of the Cardano blockchain (the Byron Era)…
