The Chang* Cardano upgrade will take place on Sunday 1st September at 21:44 UTC . In a recent video message, Input | Output’s Charles Hoskinson set out the importance of the hard fork at a symbolic venue – Jackson Hole – where he was attending the SALT conference. This Wyoming resort is popular for three reasons: skiing in winter, trout fishing in summer, and an annual…

Ricky Rand has been appointed as general manager of Input | Output Engineering (IOE). He brings a wealth of experience to the role, both from a technical and commercial perspective. This short blog post offers a glimpse into Ricky's experience and trajectory and a brief introduction to IOE.

Ricky's journey so far

Leading IOE required someone with a strong technical background, a…

Intro

Doom (1993) is an era defining game. Not just for its contributions towards community participation in gaming, such as distributing a shareware version of the game and an open sourcing of the game engine, but also for bringing gaming (previously a virtually console-exclusive feature) to the mainstream on personal computers.

Appearing in an era of floppy disks and very…

Input | Output (IO) will attend Rare Evo 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada, taking place from 15-17 August. A blockchain convention created to ‘celebrate around the theme of interoperability and the convergence of traditional industry with Web3 technology’, the Cardano Foundation and Emurgo will also attend, as will teams from Project Catalyst, Midnight, and the member-based…

Input | Output is excited to showcase the first step in the partner chains journey, following Charles' vision at the Cardano Summit in November 2023 and this blog post. This initial release represents a landmark moment in the roadmap to deliver on that vision.

Some chains lack a sufficient number of validators, rendering the network vulnerable to low-cost attacks. The partner…