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A Brief Update on Cardano Development

Processes are evolving under the project management team

9 April 2018 Charles Hoskinson 10 mins read

A Brief Update on Cardano Development

After returning from my yearly global sojourn, I wanted to update the Cardano community on the status of the project. Since the beginning of the year a lot has happened. Cardano continues to grow at a rapid pace and the project is evolving into a new stage. The Byron release back in September of 2017 was an experiment for IOHK. It's the first cryptocurrency we have launched as…

Research program to work on hardening Cardano against quantum computers

1 February 2018 Charles Hoskinson 5 mins read

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Research program to work on hardening Cardano against quantum computers

At its heart, cryptography is the science of secure communication. We have all secrets, expectations of privacy and assertions of truth about messages we receive that require some notion of verification or quantification of trust. Cryptography provides us with a toolbox to better understand how to transmit and verify these artifacts of communication in the presence of an…

A Crypto on the Edge of Forever

28 December 2017 Charles Hoskinson 7 mins read

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A Crypto on the Edge of Forever

Now that the dust has settled after travelling to more than 20 countries, dozens of conferences, major events and community meet and greets this year, I’ve finally had the time to reflect on the progress of the Cardano project as well as some of the lessons I’ve learned. It’s honestly been the most challenging year of my life, filled with drama, stress, death and some…

Introducing the Cardano roadmap

Next steps of development are charted ahead of further information releases

31 October 2017 Charles Hoskinson 9 mins read

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Introducing the Cardano roadmap

Cardano has been an incredibly challenging and fun project to work on involving many teams throughout the world with different skills and opinions on design, process and quality. Our core technology team consists of Well Typed, Serokell, Runtime Verification, Predictable Network Solutions and ATIX, with IOHK leading them. Then we have external auditors such as Grimm, RPI Sec…

Statement on IOHK's Ada Holdings

17 October 2017 Charles Hoskinson 2 mins read

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Statement on IOHK's Ada Holdings

IOHK received both Bitcoin and Ada for its contract to work on the Cardano project. IOHK converted most of its Bitcoin at the time of receiving it to fiat in order to ensure project stability. With respect to IOHK's holdings of Ada, IOHK does not expect a need to liquidate any of its Ada to cover immediate costs related to the Cardano project until 2019. However, like most…