Plutus Application Backend (PAB): supporting DApp development on Cardano
The PAB provides the components and an environment to help developers create and test DApps, before deploying them to a live production environment
28 October 2021 6 mins read
The Alonzo protocol upgrade introduced Plutus – a platform that provides a native smart contract language along with the necessary infrastructure and tools to support smart contracts on Cardano. The Plutus platform enables developers to write decentralized applications (DApps) with scripting capabilities that interact with distributed ledgers.
To understand Plutus, one has to…
Building on the Cardano Summit
As well as a showcase for all things Cardano, the summit weekend also provided a platform for working with our growing developer community
12 October 2021 6 mins read
The recent two-day Cardano Summit offered the perfect opportunity to interact with the global developer community. This landmark event became the stage where Cardano, its partners, and developers came together to form a synergistic whole of creativity and interaction. This collaboration yielded some impressive results.
IOG teams organized, or were closely involved with coding…
Acuant's new strategic partnership with IOG and Atala PRISM to offer enhanced security in the DeFi space
New capability will eliminate bad actors and strengthen security by offering fraud prevention and anti-money laundering technology
29 September 2021 3 mins read
During the Cardano Summit, we announced a new strategic partnership between IOG and Acuant, an identity verification, document authentication, and fraud prevention technology services provider. Its goal? To create a safer decentralized finance (DeFi) environment with Atala PRISM, IOG's decentralized identity platform.
This deal has been forged in response to evolving regulatory…
Cardano enters the age of AI as it welcomes Grace, the AI robot designed to revolutionize global healthcare
Cardano will become a secure and private environment for Grace's AI modules, so her work can meet international healthcare requirements
26 September 2021 2 mins read
AI is coming to the Cardano blockchain in the form of Grace, the AI robot developed by Awakening Health, a joint venture between Hanson Robotics and SingularityNET. They have chosen Cardano to ensure that Grace meets the stringent guidelines set out by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) framework.
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Why they’re calling Cardano ‘the green blockchain’
Staking process avoids the massive energy use and hardware pollution caused by Bitcoin and Ethereum mining
17 August 2021 4 mins read
Ever since Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008, Bitcoin has had its fair share of controversy, often being in the limelight for the wrong reasons. The biggest criticism is how much the mining activities of Bitcoin’s protocol, based on proof of useless work, are damaging the environment. Turns out, well, a lot.
At the time of writing, Digicomist estimates that mining consumes 99.37 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity annually. To put this figure into perspective, that’s 0.55% of the electricity produced in the world each year, enough to run a country such as Malaysia or Sweden…