IOG Academy: The pathway to becoming a Cardano smart contract developer

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9 February 2023 Arturo Mora 7 mins read

IOG Academy: The pathway to becoming a Cardano smart contract developer

As the Cardano blockchain evolves by integrating more features and development tools, the interest in developing smart contracts on Cardano is increasing. So, as we start a new year, the Input Output Global (IOG) Education team, want to share in this post the pathway you can follow to get started with Cardano’s smart contract development and the resources we provide to support…

Ouroboros Genesis: enhanced security in a dynamic environment

Ouroboros Genesis comes to Cardano in 2023. Genesis' main feature is enabling participants to safely join the network without the need to trust selected peers to provide a correct snapshot of the current blockchain state. Read on

9 February 2023 Christian Badertscher 6 mins read

Ouroboros Genesis: enhanced security in a dynamic environment

Ouroboros Genesis is a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain protocol that extends its predecessor – Ouroboros Praos.

Let’s first recall that Ouroboros is a Nakamoto-style PoS protocol with built-in resilience to potentially heavily fluctuating participation. This means that it is resilient to the many challenges that may arise from network issues, wrong configuration of nodes, or…

Cardano Working Groups: how to get involved

3 February 2023 Ivan Irakoze 3 mins read

Cardano Working Groups: how to get involved

The Cardano ecosystem has seen tremendous growth in the past year. With this growth, there have been areas of development that have needed to expand in parallel. One way to tackle these usability and interoperability domains through community collaboration is the assembly of a number of informal developer Working Groups (WG). Read on to learn about what these are, and how you…

IOG and MLabs cooperate to develop a reference implementation of an auction using Hydra protocols

20 January 2023 Olga Hryniuk 4 mins read

IOG and MLabs cooperate to develop a reference implementation of an auction using Hydra protocols

Input Output Global and MLabs are collaborating on developing a reference implementation of an auction using Hydra protocols. The first outcome of this collaboration is a paper outlining possible approaches to the implementation of digital asset auctions using the Hydra Head protocol with respective advantages and current limitations. This post introduces a brief summary of the…

Implementing auction projects using Hydra

A paper by IOG and MLabs presenting a way for handling auctions using Hydra

20 January 2023 MLabs 33 mins read

This project is a collaboration between Input Output Global (IOG) and MLabs to develop a reference implementation of an auction that uses Hydra protocols. The purpose of this is twofold:

  1. To demonstrate that it is now possible to develop substantial applications for a valuable use case with Hydra’s current implementation.
  2. To constructively determine and align Hydra Head protocol…