The Chang* Cardano upgrade will take place on Sunday 1st September at 21:44 UTC . In a recent video message, Input | Output’s Charles Hoskinson set out the importance of the hard fork at a symbolic venue – Jackson Hole – where he was attending the SALT conference. This Wyoming resort is popular for three reasons: skiing in winter, trout fishing in summer, and an annual…

Professor Philip Wadler will be known to many Cardano users as the co-creator (along with Manuel Chakravarty) of Plutus, the blockchain’s smart programming language. His work on computer languages and functional programming has resulted in professorships, a sackful of awards, and fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Anyone who has used Java or Haskell or XQuery, in…

Cardano is gradually and securely becoming a blockchain capable of hosting a new decentralized financial system. The biggest upgrades of recent years – implemented using ‘hard forks’ – have added stake delegation, native assets and NFTs, and the Plutus and Marlowe smart contract platforms. 

At first sight, improvements so far this year are more subtle, but they affect all of the…

Each month, a few more Cardano stake pools are being created, so far bringing the total number of active pools to more than 3,000. At the start of 2021, there were about 2,000. The ada is staked from 1.2 million wallet addresses. In the process, the level of delegation has increased to almost 74% of all the ada in circulation. That’s some achievement, but it still leaves a…

Incredibly, given the state of our Covid-shocked world back in January, 2021 has had its fair share of fun. And if 2020 was a big year for Cardano with the upgrade from Byron to Shelley, this year was bigger still. Decentralized block production arrived, tokens went native, contracts turned smart – and there were some world firsts. But, our review of the year is getting ahead…