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What IOG has delivered for Cardano

Cardano’s development is guided by a methodical, research-based, and deliberate approach to innovation. Over five development phases, IOG introduced innovations, new functionality, and novel features, with each phase building upon the previous phase's achievements

18 November 2022 Olga Hryniuk 11 mins read

What IOG has delivered for Cardano

This paper has been written by Fernando Sanchez and Olga Hryniuk with input from all IOG teams.

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Introduction

The development of the Cardano blockchain is guided by a methodical, research-based, and deliberate approach to innovation. Since Cardano’s first iteration as a federated network of just seven nodes, Input Output…

ZK-Lab – investigating the foundations of zero-knowledge proofs

ZK-Lab is a sister lab to the Edinburgh Blockchain Technology Laboratories collaborating with IOG on the delivery of high-assurance blockchain solutions

18 November 2022 Olga Hryniuk 3 mins read

ZK-Lab – investigating the foundations of zero-knowledge proofs

As a leading blockchain research and development company, Input Output Global, Inc. (IOG) cooperates with top universities and research hubs to investigate distributed technology and deliver secure blockchain solutions.

A recent post discussed how IOG established a network of institutions and laboratories committed to the investigation of blockchain technology based on…

Hydra for Payments – introducing developer tooling to unlock micropayments on Cardano

A guest blog post by the Obsidian Systems Hydra team

10 November 2022 Obsidian Systems 6 mins read

Hydra for Payments – introducing developer tooling to unlock micropayments on Cardano

IOG is collaborating with the Obsidian Systems team to drive the development of use cases based on the Hydra Head protocol. Hydra for Payments is one such use case.

Introduction

Scalability is key to ensuring that a blockchain can process millions of transactions without large increases in fees and transaction settlement times. Addressing scalability issues was one of the founding principles of Cardano and is the focus of the Basho

Announcing IO ScotFest: the age of Voltaire

Join IOG to celebrate Cardano’s achievements and find out more about the future plans

4 November 2022 Tim Harrison 4 mins read

Announcing IO ScotFest: the age of Voltaire

Edinburgh – Scotland’s capital and the birthplace of Cardano’s Ouroboros protocol – will be the venue for IO ScotFest: the age of Voltaire this month. Hosted at the city’s famous university on November 18th and 19th, the Input Output Global (IOG) team will live-stream speeches, presentations, project updates, and announcements from a special virtual event to celebrate Cardano…

What is SECP and how it drives cross-chain development on Cardano

New cryptographic primitives are coming to Cardano to enable secure, cross-chain DApp development

3 November 2022 Olga Hryniuk 3 mins read

What is SECP and how it drives cross-chain development on Cardano

Cryptography plays an integral role in the blockchain space, ensuring trust and security between network participants.

DApp developers can use cryptographic primitives as the building blocks to create secure transactions containing sensitive data, develop custom encryption and decryption algorithms, and validate such by using digital signatures.

In recent decades, Elliptic…