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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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Musings

Growth Strategy

A great video update from Charles has just landed covering the Electric Capital developer report, which among other areas explores development ecosystems and community links across chains. You’ll recall if you’ve been following Cardano for a while that this has been an area that Charles has had focus on from the early days (recall the…

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Governance matters…

Charles summed this up perfectly a while back: “Cardano is leading the entire cryptocurrency industry in this. Bitcoin and Ethereum the other two big guys, they’ve recused themselves. They’ve said we don’t want to do on-chain governance. In the case of Bitcoin, it’s anarchy. Great, they can’t change. Which means they have to live with…

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Settlement vs Computation Layers

Quick post on a recent whiteboard video from Charles covering side chains and digging into the architecture of Cardano. He explores the original essay which outlined a settlement layer (essentially Ourobouros which is now in place) with highly secure, reliable and decentralised characteristics, and associated computation layers (or side Chains) which can rely on the…

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Cardano Community

IO Scotfest

At the tail end of last year IO hosted Scotfest in Edinburgh. The playlist is available on YouTube. The Cardano community is entering a new era, one where the community’s voice is becoming stronger than ever. To celebrate, IOG hosted a two-day virtual event to showcase all of the features of Cardano and the extensive…