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 2 mins read
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 6 mins read
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 4 mins read
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.
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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 8 mins read
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…
Increasing the transaction throughput of Cardano
Diffusion pipelining - scheduled for this summer - will increase the budget for block propagation and validation times, allowing for larger blocks and increased transaction throughput. Here’s a technical research perspective. (Along with an introduction to AV, its even more performant sibling…)
21 March 2022 10 mins read
The recent enabling of smart contracts on Cardano has led to a significant increase in user activity. Simultaneously, average transaction sizes grew due to code-carrying script transactions. With the first decentralized-finance (DeFi) applications now deployed on the Cardano ecosystem, and more on the way, we expect this trend to continue. To keep up with this elevated demand…