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‘d=0’ Day

We are fast approaching full decentralisation of the Cardano network with all blocks produced by Stake Pool Operators (SPOs) with the transition set to occur on March 31st, at the boundary of epoch 257. As Colin Edwards, Quantitative Strategist at IOHK, notes in this blog post: At the end of March, we’ll reach another significant…

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Mary update successfully applied

Great news. Massive thanks go to the team at IOHK for another superbly managed upgrade. It’s becoming a habit…

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Protocol update incoming

Mary is go! Just in, IOHK confirmation that Mary hard fork is confirmed for March 1st. Native tokens here we come. We are on the launchpad, t minus 5 days…

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IOHK partners with Wolfram

IOHK have struck a deal with Wolfram, and Cardano will join Bitcoin and Ethereum in integrating into Wolfram’s industry leading technology and knowledge base, Wolfram Alpha. You probably already know that Wolfram’s knowledge base and Natural Language Processing technology helps power agents like Siri and Alexa. The blog post notes: We are currently defining a…

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K parameter increasing

IOHK have announced that the K parameter which sets a soft cap on the total number of stake pools is increasing from Epoch 234 (Sunday 6th December) from 150 to 500, with a goal to further increase to 1000 in March 2021. The announcement explains the rationale: First and foremost, the rewards sharing mechanism of…