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Former Deloitte Blockchain Leader Joins IOG’s New Midnight Project

Anthony Day will head up the go-to-market strategy for Midnight, bringing experience from leading blockchain systems integrators including Deloitte and IBM, and Web3 projects including Polkadot & Hedera Hashgraph

3 May 2023 Tim Harrison 3 mins read

Former Deloitte Blockchain Leader Joins IOG’s New Midnight Project

Today, Input Output Global (IOG) is delighted to announce the appointment of Anthony Day as Head of Strategy & Marketing for Midnight, our new data protection-focused protocol.

Day has previously held leadership and advisory roles at IBM, Deloitte, Parity Technologies, and Hedera Hashgraph, bringing experience in a wide variety of different deployments of blockchain technology…

Cardano advances with Valentine upgrade and zippier nodes

Recent changes improve compatibility with other blockchains and add dynamic P2P to nodes to improve the efficiency of the whole network

2 May 2023 Anthony Quinn 6 mins read

Cardano advances with Valentine upgrade and zippier nodes

Cardano is gradually and securely becoming a blockchain capable of hosting a new decentralized financial system. The biggest upgrades of recent years – implemented using ‘hard forks’ – have added stake delegation, native assets and NFTs, and the Plutus and Marlowe smart contract platforms. 

At first sight, improvements so far this year are more subtle, but they affect all of the…