Categories
Musings

Amazon denied it but…

So you may have seen the news in the last week that Amazon were working to accept crypto currency payments, starting with Bitcoin. Accordingly to an insider quoted in the City A.M. article: “Ethereum, Cardano and Bitcoin Cash will be next in line before they bring about eight of the most popular cryptocurrencies online,” she…

Categories
Musings

A billion users

A recent article in City A.M. covering the Cardano aspiration for a billion users within 10 years caught our eye. A billion users, that’s a big number right? At the moment Cardano has about 1 million users based on active wallet data. So to hit a billion over 10 years requires a Compound Annual Growth…

Categories
Interesting links

Orion One Stop Marketplace

The new collaboration between Orion and IOHK aims to make mainstream buying and selling digital assets as easy as traditional finance, and it will be running on the Cardano block chain. Eric Czuleger covers the collaboration on a recent blog post.He notes: Orion Protocol aims to be the first decentralized gateway to the whole digital…

Categories
Cardano Updates

More details on Marlowe

Marlowe is the Domain Specific Language (DSL) that will be used to write financial contracts that run on Cardano. This months’ Cardano360 will have more details, and Shruti Appiah, Engineering product manager will be joining the show. She notes in a recent blog post that: With Marlowe, we aim to democratize finance by facilitating peer-to-peer…

Categories
Cardano Community

Africa Special Summary

TLDR; of the Africa Special #CardanoAfrica 5m users for digital IDs, 30m in pipeline for Ethiopia New telco in Tanzania, 50% price, 2x speed @WorldMobileTeam 5 new African countries by 2021, 20 countries 2022 100m loanbook after Alonzo doing #RealFi Plus: SingularityNET partnership: building AI in Africa iceaddis: the pan-African technology incubator Cardano Foundation: working with…