CH talks in this video about goals for Cardano and Africa, and the goals to increase blockchain adoption. He explores some of the projects that have been initiated. Nice 10 minute intro if you are new to Cardano and aren’t familiar with why it’s a bit different to the rest of the Crypto projects.
Tag: Cardano
Blockchain deployment in Africa
One of the goals from the earliest inception of Cardano has been to push power to the edge of the financial system and start to provide the same benefits and opportunities enjoyed in Western countries to the rest of the world. So we were really pleased to see a report this morning on Crypto News…
Elliot Hill has recently published a really interesting Blog post on Medium exploring how permissions-less blockchains may provide the best platforms for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). He notes: Central bank digital currencies, often abbreviated to CBDCs, are digital analogs of fiat currencies, such as the US dollar or Japanese yen, issued at a state…
The ‘Killer App’?
We are used to the idea of a ‘Killer App‘, that one application that drives the adoption of a new technology. That one capability that just can’t be replicated easily elsewhere. In the early days of personal computing it was the spreadsheet which drove adoption of the Apple II. Later Word, Excel and Powerpoint played…
Native Assets
Details of the Cardano native assets implementation are available on the developers site. The introduction notes: Native Tokens is the name of Cardano’s Multi-Asset (MA) support feature, which enables users to transact with ada, and an unlimited number of user-defined (custom) tokens natively. Native support offers distinct advantages for developers: there is no need to…