What’s next for Cardano?
Input | Output's perspective on the next steps for Cardano, emphasizing the essential role of community input in shaping the path ahead
29 January 2025 8 mins read
Cardano's evolution into a community-governed blockchain platform will enable a more inclusive and autonomous system. This milestone is the culmination of the platform’s foundational development phases – Byron (foundation), Shelley (decentralization), Goguen (smart contracts), Basho (scaling), and Voltaire (decentralized on-chain governance).
In his whiteboard video recorded in November 2024, ‘After Voltaire, the next evolution of Cardano’, Charles Hoskinson, CEO of Input | Output (IO), proposed IO’s perspective on the next steps and reflected on the need for the Cardano…
Partner chains are coming to Cardano
Input Output Global announces a new framework to enable a family of independent, interoperable, layer 1 blockchain networks to flourish
3 November 2023 3 mins read
At this week’s Cardano Summit 2023, IOG founder & CEO Charles Hoskinson outlined a new framework that will offer new ways for developers and validators to utilize Cardano’s core strengths – and some exciting new Cardano technologies – to build their own optimized partner chains.
Partner chains will revolutionize how new blockchains are launched and operated by combining modular…
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