KEVM will allow deploying Solidity smart contracts to Cardano. Solidity, a major programming language for writing smart contracts, will soon become compatible with the Cardano (ADA) blockchain. According to a Dec. 17 announcement on Cardano Developers website, Cardano devs are now opening up Cardano to the Solidity and Ethereum community through an interoperable platform that […]
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Cardano is the next blockchain to integrate with the world’s largest answer engine in 2021. Wolfram Alpha, a major computational knowledge engine providing technology for major services like Apple’s Siri assistant, is integrating data from Cardano blockchain. According to a Dec. 17 announcement, Wolfram Blockchain Labs, or WBL, a subsidiary of Wolfram Research, has partnered […]
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The CEO of Cardano developers IOHK sees a promising path towards DeFi adoption throughout the world’s second-most populous continent In one of his frequent Youtube missives to his following, CEO of IOHK — the developers behind the Cardano Blockchain — Charles Hoskinson revealed that the company’s long-term developmental focus will hinge on Africa, going so […]
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Bondly will transition its cryptocurrency, OTC platform BSwap, and e-commerce platform BONDProtect over to Cardano from Polkadot. Decentralized e-commerce platform Bondly will be the first decentralized finance project to run on the Cardano blockchain as part of the platform’s roll-out of the Goguen smart contract functionality. In the Twitter announcement, the firm that built the […]
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IOHK’s Project Catalyst names Liqwid as a potential candidate to receive up to $250,000 in ADA funding. IOHK, the development company behind Cardano, has named a DeFi lending protocol as one of its so-called Project Catalyst ideas — sending a strong message that decentralized finance applications could be coming to the project’s blockchain. In a […]
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IOHK is planning a “smooth upgrade path to Goguen.” IOHK, the development arm behind Cardano, recently announced a new hard fork of the protocol scheduled for mid-December. Kevin Hammond, a software engineer at IOHK, revealed this week that Cardano will undergo a hard fork later this month as part of its transition to the Goguen […]
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That being said, scaling decentralized e-voting systems is a complex task. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Charles Hoskinson suggested that a Cardano-based solution might make blockchain voting possible for future national elections. He stated: “Not only do I believe — we’ve been building the infrastructure for that.” Hoskinson acknowledged that the road to Cardano-based elections would be […]
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Amid a global employment crisis, it’s perhaps inevitable that the gig economy is making inroads into the blockchain space too. Blockchain developers can’t be accused of failing to keep up with the times. The unprecedented shake-up in the world’s labor markets during the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the underemployment trends of recent decades. Signs of a […]
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While Hoskinson is not a fan of “the Orange Goblin”, he still does not appreciate unsolicited pro-Biden emails from paid service providers. “My first thought was he must have been hacked”, said Hoskinson, reflecting on opening an email he received from David Barrett, the CEO of Expensify, urging him to vote for Joe Biden: Source: […]
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This inherent separation of power is all in accordance with Charles Hoskinson’s vision. The Cardano (ADA) ecosystem has a complex governance structure, not dissimilar from the way the U.S. democracy operates, with its built-in checks and balances. There are three main players: the Cardano Foundation, EMURGO and IOHK; according to the Foundation’s incoming CEO Frederik […]
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