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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 3 mins read
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 6 mins read
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…
Lace goes live! Let's look at its mission and milestones
The Lace wallet platform has already achieved several milestones along its pre-launch journey. Read on to learn about Lace’s core objectives, features, and journey now that it is live on mainnet
14 April 2023 3 mins read
The world of Web3 is an ever-expanding universe of decentralized identity, decentralized apps (DApps), and decentralized finance (DeFi). While the technology keeps evolving, the user experience remains somewhat complicated.
Enter Lace, the new Web3 wallet platform from Input Output Global (IOG). Built with a vision to become multi-chain and make the Web3 experience accessible…
Former Symphony COO joins Cardano builder IOG as CEO of new Midnight blockchain project
Eran Barak takes on newly created CEO role, bringing extensive financial services experience to the software developer
27 March 2023 3 mins read
Input Output Global, Inc. (IOG), a software research & development company, and one of the builders behind world-leading sustainable blockchain platform Cardano, has appointed Eran Barak as CEO of Midnight, its new data-protection focused protocol.
Barak has previously held senior roles in the financial services industry. Most recently, he helped found and served as chief…
Dynamic P2P is available on mainnet
Dynamic peer-to-peer (P2P) networking comes with the release of node v.1.35.6. Network participants can now test automatic node communication without a need for static configurations
16 March 2023 6 mins read
Dynamic P2P networking is an important evolution for Cardano and a further boost to the network's performance, resilience, and decentralization. By automating the peer selection process, Dynamic P2P enables enhanced communication between distributed nodes and simplifies the process of running a relay or a block-producing node. This eliminates the need for static configurations…
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