Interesting Links 24 Jan 2025
Cardano Assets on T1 exchanges
Some important news regarding listings for Cardano Native Assets (CNAs) on Tier 1 exchanges has just surfaced. Kraken will be listing Snek, the premier meme...
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Interesting Links 24 Jan 2025
SEC scraps SAB 121 rule
Another development just in which is positive for the wider sector, is the change to rules on custody for Banks in the U.S. with the move by the SEC to retire...
Interesting Links 29 Oct 2024
Bitcoin x Cardano
Some interesting news from the recent Cardano Summit in Dubai. BitcoinOS have succeeded in verifying the first ZK-Proof on Bitcoin, upgrading it to do...
Interesting Links 19 Jul 2023
Wallet Comparison
There are a lot of wallets available in the Cardano ecosystem and we thought it might be helpful to create a summary table on the features. We'll keep this...
Interesting Links 30 Jan 2023
There’s a lot in the pipeline
A short and non exhaustive list of things we have to look forward to across the Cardano ecosystem in the coming months through 2023: A lot to look forward to…...
Interesting Links 28 Jan 2023
Settlement vs Computation Layers
Quick post on a recent whiteboard video from Charles covering side chains and digging into the architecture of Cardano. He explores the original essay which...
Interesting Links 28 Sept 2022
CH interview with Messari
Ryan Selkis interviewed Charles at the Messari Mainnet conference recently. Kudos to CH for agreeing to do this (if you are aware of Ryan's public statements...
Interesting Links 26 Aug 2022
2022 Brand Report
News just in that Cardano has made it into the top 30 of the Brand Intimacy Report for 2022 at #26, edging ahead of BMW, IKEA and many other big names...
Interesting Links 8 Aug 2022
More papers!
A couple of new research papers have just been released by the research powerhouse that is Prof Aggelos Kiayias and team. Worth linking because they both move...
Interesting Links 25 Jul 2022
Babel Fees Overview
An update on Babel Fees is just out, one of the improvements which will be coming to Cardano in the not too distant future. Babel Fees are a novel mechanism...
Interesting Links 22 Jun 2022
Web3 analysis
Ben Evans publishes an annual update on his analysis of the tech sectors major trends. In the latest he touches on Web3 and crypto: The most exciting themes in...
Interesting Links 15 Jun 2022
Proof Of Stake
You probably already know that Cardano uses an algorithm known as Proof of Stake (PoS) to secure the blockchain, and maintain consensus between validators. You...
Interesting Links 4 Jun 2022
World mobile update
We are big fans of World Mobile here, and keep a close eye on their progress. They have a very exciting proposition in merging open access to mobile networks...
Interesting Links 6 May 2022
Plutus Explainer
John Woods has been at it again. A high level explanation of Plutus, which for those of you who have been in this space for any time will already know is...
Interesting Links 9 Apr 2022
Cardano Foundation expand research with Zurich University
A recent Cointelegraph article covers a new three-year collaboration by the Cardano Foundation (based in Zug, Switzerland) with the Blockchain Center of the...
Interesting Links 9 Apr 2022
Start up incubator for Africa
Project Catalyst, the Cardano funding incubator for new start up companies has launched a focussed incubator for Africa in partnership with Iceaddis: Input...
Interesting Links 2 Feb 2022
Kraken Research Report
A very balanced report on Cardano from Kraken research has just been published. It covers the background and goals of Cardano and takes a deep dive into the...
Interesting Links 17 Jan 2022
A round up
We've been a little busy on some pool improvements behind the scenes here, and not posting so much on the blog. There have been a few great IOG blog posts of...
Interesting Links 17 Jan 2022
World Mobile deployment plans
A lot of positive World Mobile news lately, including this article by CNN. You may recall that World Mobile (connect the unconnected) are tightly linked with...
Interesting Links 1 Jan 2022
Ethereum 2.0 analysis
A recent blog post by BitMEX research on Ethereum 2.0 caught our eye recently and we though it was worth sharing. A while ago we noted that Cardano had a...
Interesting Links 8 Dec 2021
World Mobile and IOHK in Zanzibar
We meant to load a link to this on the blog a while back, but in the rush around the time managed to miss. World Mobile have a goal to make internet access...
Interesting Links 2 Dec 2021
Network traffic levels
…have been increasing a lot of late. In fact even with the recent increase in block size from 64kB to 72 kB (an increase of 8kB or 12%) there are periods where...
Interesting Links 23 Nov 2021
Blockchain sustainability report
A recent IOG report covers blockchain sustainability, an increasingly important characteristic in light of the climate challenges ahead. This was published in...
Interesting Links 23 Nov 2021
Slow and steady wins the race
A really good summary of the design considerations for performance that have driven the development of the Cardano blockchain by John Woods, the IOHK Director...
Interesting Links 22 Oct 2021
Cardano- robust, resilient, flexible
A recent blog post from Kevin Hammond (who we were pleased to meet at the Cardano 2021 Summit in London) has just been published that looks at Cardano's...
Interesting Links 7 Oct 2021
Harvard interview with IOHK
Authoritarian, totalitarian regimes that hate freedom, hate cryptocurrencies. It's just that simple. These technologies are fundamentally incompatible…...
Interesting Links 1 Oct 2021
Greyscale, WSJ and Oasis Pro Markets
A few nice items caught our eye recently, all positive on Cardano. It seems as though the developments shared at the 2021 Summit are starting to make it into...
Interesting Links 30 Sept 2021
CH interview with Naomi Brockwell
Naomi first interviewed Charles 7 years ago in 2014. This interview follows up and looks back on the history of the crypto space over the last 10 years, some...
Interesting Links 10 Sept 2021
Concurrency- say that again…
There has been some heated debate amongst the denizens of Crypto Twitter lately about the supposed challenges that Cardano faces to run Smart Contracts at...
Interesting Links 20 Aug 2021
Djed Stablecoin
Another innovation we have to look forward to with Cardano is the Djed algorithmic stablecoin protocol. The white paper on this has been recently published by...
Interesting Links 23 Jul 2021
Smart contracts explained
You might already follow Crypto Capital Ventures (CCV) on Twitter or YouTube. If not Dan summarises the Cardano move into the Goguen era of Smart Contracts....
Interesting Links 15 Jul 2021
Cardano Developer Portal
News just in that the Developer Portal is live. This is a very positive development which will help new entrants to the ecosystem. As you might expect from a...
Interesting Links 2 Jul 2021
Grayscale adds Cardano
Grayscale have just announced that they have adjusted the portfolio of Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund by selling certain amounts of the existing Fund...
Interesting Links 1 Jul 2021
Nexo integrates Cardano
IOHK have just announced another strategic partnership with Nexo who have just added ADA to their platform. Eric Czuleger writes: As we move towards the Alonzo...
Interesting Links 24 Jun 2021
Orion One Stop Marketplace
The new collaboration between Orion and IOHK aims to make mainstream buying and selling digital assets as easy as traditional finance, and it will be running...
Interesting Links 17 Jun 2021
Lex Fridman Podcast #192
Lex interviews Charles. If you have a spare 5 hours(!) this is fantastic. You may have guessed we are a bit nerdy (geeky…both?) here and we love this stuff
Interesting Links 17 Jun 2021
Stablefees
Another day another major innovation for the crypto world. Yep, Prof Aggelos Kiayias has been at it again. As an extension to Babel Fees (remember?) Aggelos...
Interesting Links 8 Jun 2021
Cardano Software Stack
Interested in knowing more about the software stack that runs Cardano? Well you are in luck! Over at the IOG* Blog Niamh Ahern has put together a post...
Interesting Links 17 May 2021
Cardano Dev Team
The Cardano development team use Github as their version control system. It's publicly available and is the standard way that all open source projects like...
Interesting Links 15 May 2021
SingularityNET AGI token to be hard-forked to Cardano
News just in that the SingularityNET Phase II Launch sequence has been activated, and the AGI token is to be hard-forked to a Cardano-compatible AGIX token. In...
Interesting Links 16 Apr 2021
The Exponential Age
If you've been reading this blog for a while you will know we are big fans of Raoul Pal and RealVision. He's just put out a great video that summarises his...
Interesting Links 10 Apr 2021
Cardano Blockchain Insights
Some great insight here on Google data studio from Cardano Fans Stake Pool. Covering Delegation, Supply, Stake Pools, Social, Treasury, Development, and Native...
Interesting Links 19 Mar 2021
Inspired by Cardano
Fantastic tweet in the feed today for NFT artwork due to be released by ELEMENT 12G. These look amazing. Inspired by Cardano this image is a visual...
Interesting Links 11 Mar 2021
FD7 Ventures
This recent news article caught our eye: According to FD7 Ventures Managing Partner, Prakash Chand, Bitcoin’s market cap will reach $10 trillion in a few...
Interesting Links 25 Feb 2021
Babel Fees
We are massive fans of Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and spent many an hour reading about the antics of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and Zaphod...
Interesting Links 17 Feb 2021
Cardano and Africa
CH talks in this video about goals for Cardano and Africa, and the goals to increase blockchain adoption. He explores some of the projects that have been...
Interesting Links 16 Feb 2021
Shelling out: The origins of Money
Nick Szabo wrote an essay on the origins of money back in 2002. If you are curious about the origin and evolution of money this is a fascinating read. Nick is...
Interesting Links 9 Feb 2021
An oldie but a goodie
A Real Vision special on YouTube from a few years ago. Still a great summary of the history of the crypto space and what the innovation is really about. How...
Interesting Links 8 Feb 2021
Blockchain deployment in Africa
One of the goals from the earliest inception of Cardano has been to push power to the edge of the financial system and start to provide the same benefits and...
Interesting Links 7 Feb 2021
Blockchain will bring trust back into capital markets
Just read a really good article by Frederik Gregard (CEO of the Cardano Foundation) on the Cardano Foundation forum on the recent GameStop events. Frederik...
Interesting Links 5 Feb 2021
Building the World's new reserve currency
Elliot Hill has recently published a really interesting Blog post on Medium exploring how permissions-less blockchains may provide the best platforms for...
Interesting Links 30 Jan 2021
Building Fairer Financial Systems
Charles is genuinely one of the leading thinkers in the Cryptocurrency space. He recently delivered the keynote speech at The North American Bitcoin...
Interesting Links 3 Jan 2021
Happy Birthday Bitcoin
12 years. Birthday wishes from Charles, who captures the sentiment and spirit perfectly. The cryptocurrency innovation that the Bitcoin has unleashed is just...
Interesting Links 19 Dec 2020
Oracles!
Want to know about Oracles and how they will work on Cardano? This is the introduction you have been waiting for…
Interesting Links 5 Dec 2020
The Island, The Ocean, and The Pond (Soon)
Charles has just recorded a whiteboard session that helps explain how smart contracts will be coming to Cardano. Really inspiring stuff (as ever). The Pond is...
Interesting Links 3 Dec 2020
Coin Bureau Cardano update
Coin Bureau have a great Youtube channel. Really enjoyable presentation, technically strong, and good analysis. This recent update on Cardano is well worth...
Interesting Links 29 Nov 2020
Bitcoin Power Consumption
Some really nice work on the energy consumption of Bitcoin from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge University. The current estimate is...
Interesting Links 25 Nov 2020
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace, in full Ada King, countess of Lovelace, original name Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron, (born December 10, 1815, Piccadilly Terrace, Middlesex [now...
Interesting Links 13 Nov 2020
Staking in Cardano
A welcome post by the "Architect of Staking": Prof Aggelos Kiayias (Chief Scientist, IOHK), which acknowledges the importance of pledging in the protocol in...
Interesting Links 12 Nov 2020
Decentralisation
Decentralisation of the Cardano ecosystem is important because it helps the network maintain operational resilience against denial of service attacks and other...
Interesting Links 6 Nov 2020
Steve Jobs- Lost 1995 interview
Not a Cardano post, but this is a very interesting interview by Bob Cringely as part of his series Triumph of the Nerds (which is well worth watching to...
Interesting Links 5 Nov 2020
IOHK Sponsors New Haskell Foundation
The independent, open, non-profit body will support tools, libraries, education, and research. Simon Peyton Jones has just announced the launch of the Haskell...
Interesting Links 30 Oct 2020
Cross Chain Communication
This YouTube clip from Charles was released about 3 months ago, but does a great job explaining the approach to interoperability between chains, tokens, and...
Interesting Links 26 Oct 2020
The leadership we need
Great video from Charles on speculation in crypto markets. Every now and then it's good to remind ourselves why Cardano has the potential to be such a...
Interesting Links 23 Oct 2020
Geralomo Cardano
Looking for Cardano on Wikipedia leads you to this entry: Gerolamo (also Girolamo[3] or Geronimo[4]) Cardano (Italian: [dʒeˈrɔlamo karˈdano]; French: Jérôme...
Interesting Links 20 Oct 2020
The Bitcoin Life Raft
Raoul Pal (ex Goldman's and CEO of Realvision) knows finance. He makes an interesting case for why BTC will increase in value in the next 5 years. Along the...
Interesting Links 19 Oct 2020
Future of Blockchain in Africa
Nice interview from Charles on Future of Blockchain Innovation in Africa recently posted on You Tube. Relevant and of interest given IOHK goals to increase...
Interesting Links 7 Oct 2020
New version of Daedalus
A new version 2.3.0 of the wallet is available. From the release notes: The Daedalus 2.3.0 release delivers automatic updates, removing the need for manually...
Interesting Links 2 Oct 2020
Singularity Net
If you love AI and you love Cardano you'll love this….