Designing blockchain systems is a challenging endeavor. It is also a continuous process, as these systems are long-lived and aim to capture requirements that evolve during their lifetime. It follows that a blockchain project’s community often faces difficult decisions that ‘fork’ the future of a blockchain system in different ways, with consequences that are hard to fully…

The Input | Output (IO) Education team recently delivered a momentous Cardano developer course at the National Technological University (UTN) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The experience served both to cultivate deep technical learning and to leave a lasting impression on the education team through interactions with the local community and culture.

IO’s technical education lead, Karina Lopez, shares a glimpse into the highlights and stories from this two-week course, delivered in collaboration with Ada Labs for Blockchain Applications (ALBA)…

Research has always been integral to Input | Output’s (IO) creative process, allowing for the development of high-assurance blockchain solutions grounded in functional correctness.

Collaborating with researchers and leading universities worldwide, IO addresses challenging research questions to build a solid foundation for fintech blockchain infrastructure. Led by Aggelos Kiayias…

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…

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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…