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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…

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World Mobile and IOHK in Zanzibar

We meant to load a link to this on the blog a while back, but in the rush around the time managed to miss. World Mobile have a goal to make internet access ubiquitous and cheap for everyone, and they think that integration with the blockchain (i.e. Cardano) offers a way to do this in…

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Blockchain sustainability report

A recent IOG report covers blockchain sustainability, an increasingly important characteristic in light of the climate challenges ahead. This was published in advance of COP26 recently held in Glasgow. We missed the publication at that point, but wanted to highlight. As mentioned in the report Proof of Stake is the key innovation that has enabled…

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Ethiopia overhauls its education system with IOHK blockchain partnership

Big news, and we got this a bit early. From the CityAM article today: Global blockchain research and development company IOHK has announced a unique partnership with the government of Ethiopia. The link-up will implement a blockchain-based national student and teacher ID and attainment recording system to digitally verify grades, remotely monitor school performance and…

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IOHK on Sky News

IOHK Media Director Rod Alexander was recently on Sky News, and talked a little bit about block chains potential. Good to see IOHK getting some more coverage from the main stream media channels.