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Another look at network effects

A recent article in The Economist covering the current health status of some of the tech ‘darlings’ caught our eye: Over the past year, the firms that epitomise these [new tech] business models — Uber and DoorDash; Netflix and Spotify; and Snap and Meta (which has tumbled spectacularly out of the trillion-dollar club) — have…

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Cardano Metrics E1-259

We’ve been messing around with Cardano-db-sync which puts the entire block chain into a Postgres SQL database instance, and means you can easily access via SQL or PostgREST. This will allow us to start offering some better realtime stats for our delegators, and lay the foundations for some services we are planning to develop. As…

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Increased transactions

You might have caught the news that Cardano is now second only to BTC in terms of transaction value. It’s interesting to see how transaction volume has increased over the last month on the ADAvault pools. You can see this on our performance dashboard (all our delegators get to see the same metrics and data…

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Metcalfe’s Law

Cardano passed an important milestone in recent weeks. It wasn’t the price of ADA, as welcome as the increase is for people who have held it since the peak in 2017. No, it was the size of the stake pool network that secures the Cardano block chain and which uses Proof of Stake rather than…