Native tokens to bring new utility to life on Cardano
Users will soon be able to create their own on-chain tokens for transactions on Cardano
4 February 2021 5 mins read
Portrait of Mary Shelley by Richard Rothwell (1800-1868)
The Goguen rollout continues with another key building block in Cardano’s evolution into a decentralized, multi-asset (MA) smart contract platform. The Goguen ‘Mary’ update – named after author Mary Shelley – introduces the ability to create user-defined tokens. These custom tokens will be ‘native’, so they can be…
Plutus Tx: compiling Haskell into Plutus Core
Get to the heart of writing smart contract applications on Cardano
2 February 2021 9 mins read
Last week saw the release of the refreshed version of the Plutus Playground. This is our showcase for the Plutus Platform, at the heart of which is the ability to write smart contract applications in a single, high-level language: Haskell.
Our toolchain allows a single Haskell program to produce not only an executable file that users can run on their own computers, but also the…
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