How Cardano can help development in Africa
We are taking the first steps on our journey in the continent and invite you to join us
10 March 2018 7 mins read
Five years ago, I was with a friend when she received a distressing call from her home in East Africa. Without permission, someone had been collecting the rent on a small commercial premises she owned in the capital. My friend had inherited the property five months previously from her father, but had only recently discovered that the property had tenants. The rent collector in…
Cardano 1.1.0 software update
A major package of improvements and fixes is ready for users
7 March 2018 4 mins read
The software update today is the first major release for Cardano since the mainnet was launched at the end of September and it consists of a great deal of work from the development team. The release contains a few new features that are aimed at improving the user experience. And it also contains a set of important fixes for many of the bugs that were identified since the last…
Kaleidoscope – a cryptographic protocol for securely playing poker
Bernardo David presents the research paper at Financial Cryptography 2018
1 March 2018 5 mins read
Poker is arguably one of the most popular card games in the world, both in casinos and on the internet. Online poker has become increasingly popular after a boom in the early 2000s, fueling a growing market with revenues estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. However, the current model of online gambling forces users to blindly trust the online casinos, who could easily…
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