Mithril is a stake-based signature scheme and a protocol that improves the speed and efficiency of nodes' syncing times. Mithril boosts node syncing time, offers security, and empowers decentralized decision-making. With Mithril, Cardano's network becomes more efficient, streamlined, and capable of supporting a wider range of applications and use cases.

Mithril's proof of concept was released in August 2022. In December, the team officially presented Mithril, revealing more about its benefits, applications, and roadmap…

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…