Boosting Cardano’s throughput with script referencing

We take a closer look at just some of the enhancements coming to Cardano with the Vasil upgrade

13 April 2022 Olga Hryniuk 4 mins read

Boosting Cardano’s throughput with script referencing

During the Basho development phase, the ledger continues to optimize and scale for the growing demand. Along with parameter adjustments and node upgrades, Plutus capability continues to develop at a steady pace.

Plutus is a living, evolving smart contract language. Cardano improvement proposals – also known as CIPs – play an important role in this evolution. Through the CIP mechanism, anyone can suggest an improvement to Cardano. CIPs encourage community engagement and proposal reviews, which are continually maintained on the Cardano Foundation’s GitHub repository

Introducing the Concept of Delegate Representatives (dReps)

dReps will vote on the vast majority of proposals within Project Catalyst and enhance the quality of decision making within each Fund

11 April 2022 Jack Briggs 2 mins read

Introducing the Concept of Delegate Representatives (dReps)

At a recent Project Catalyst Town Hall, IOG announced the concept of delegating your voting power, the role of Delegate Representatives (dReps) and invited those keen to get involved to express an interest. There has been a fantastic response and we’re now excited to share more details.

In less than a year, Project Catalyst has become the world’s largest decentralized…

Project Catalyst launches incubator for Africa

Ariob will help drive innovation and tackle everyday challenges across the continent

5 April 2022 Tim Richmond 6 mins read

Project Catalyst launches incubator for Africa

Input Output Global’s Project Catalyst has launched Ariob, an incubator scheme, in collaboration with iceaddis, a pan-African business incubator, and accelerator. Ariob means ‘a collection of stars’ in Ge’ez, an ancient Semitic language of Ethiopia.

This strategic partnership is designed to enhance the growth of projects funded by Project Catalyst, Cardano’s innovation engine…

Wave Financial launches ada yield fund to support Cardano's DeFi ecosystem growth

The ada yield fund aims to provide liquidity and other resources to Cardano’s rapidly expanding DeFi platform startups

31 March 2022 Fernando Sanchez 4 mins read

Wave Financial launches ada yield fund to support Cardano's DeFi ecosystem growth

30 March, 2022, Los Angeles, US / Singapore - Wave Financial LLC (Wave), a SEC-regulated digital asset investment management company, is pleased to announce the launch of the Wave ADA Yield Fund. The fund is designed to provide liquidity with millions in line to support new decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms launched in the Cardano ecosystem starting with an initial $100m.

The critical role of AI / blockchain synergy in humanity’s future

A guest blog post by AI and blockchain pioneer, SingularityNET’s Dr. Ben Goertzel

30 March 2022 Dr. Ben Goertzel 8 mins read

The critical role of AI / blockchain synergy in humanity’s future

The global economy is becoming increasingly complex, with sophisticated AI algorithms now able to marshall more wealth in a day than our great grandparents interacted with in their lifetimes. It is crucial that we prevent control of the emergent planetary AI network from concentrating in a few hands. Transparency and sovereignty must be appropriately architected into its…