Finding a brand for Daedalus

26 April 2017 Richard Wild 6 mins read

Finding a brand for Daedalus - Input Output

Finding a brand for Daedalus

Just who was Daedalus? It was the first of many questions the design team had to answer when we started work to find a logo for the digital wallet that will store the Ada cryptocurrency. Daedalus is an unusual name. We were in Riga, on an IOHK working sprint last autumn, when we got the brief to develop the visual identity and brand for the wallet, so the first thing we did was…

A trip to Malta and a Grothendieck milestone

18 April 2017 Jeremy Wood 6 mins read

A trip to Malta and a Grothendieck milestone - Input Output

Last Monday should have been particularly jarring given the recent excitement. However, it was anything but. Sunlight was flooding the back garden and all the small birds of the neighborhood came together to perform an impromptu concert at maximum volume. I could hear them clearly through the double glazing. Spring had sprung in Dublin. And I’d just come back from Malta talking…

Smart contracts conference starts in Athens

31 March 2017 Jeremy Wood 4 mins read

Smart contracts conference starts in Athens - Input Output

Smart contracts conference starts in Athens

Experts in law and cryptography are speaking today at a smart contracts day in Athens, organised by IOHK chief scientist Aggelos Kiayias, chair of cyber security and privacy at the University of Edinburgh as well as director of its Blockchain Technology Laboratory. Smart contracts are an emerging technology that run on the same infrastructure that supports Bitcoin: a blockchain…

Smart contracts conference starts in Athens

31 March 2017 Jeremy Wood 4 mins read

Smart contracts conference starts in Athens - Input Output

Smart contracts conference starts in Athens

Experts in law and cryptography are speaking today at a smart contracts day in Athens, organised by IOHK chief scientist Aggelos Kiayias, chair of cyber security and privacy at the University of Edinburgh as well as director of its Blockchain Technology Laboratory. Smart contracts are an emerging technology that run on the same infrastructure that supports Bitcoin: a blockchain…

Bidirectional proof refinement

16 March 2017 Rebecca Valentine 18 mins read

Bidirectional proof refinement - Input Output

In my last blog post, we looked at the very basics of proof refinement systems. I noted at the end that there was a big drawback of the systems as shown, namely that information flows only in one direction: from the root of a proof tree to the leaves. In this post, we'll see how to get information to flow in the opposite direction as well. The code for this blog post can be…