Cardano Working Groups: how to get involved
3 February 2023 3 mins read
The Cardano ecosystem has seen tremendous growth in the past year. With this growth, there have been areas of development that have needed to expand in parallel. One way to tackle these usability and interoperability domains through community collaboration is the assembly of a number of informal developer Working Groups (WG). Read on to learn about what these are, and how you…
IOG and MLabs cooperate to develop a reference implementation of an auction using Hydra protocols
20 January 2023 4 mins read
Input Output Global and MLabs are collaborating on developing a reference implementation of an auction using Hydra protocols. The first outcome of this collaboration is a paper outlining possible approaches to the implementation of digital asset auctions using the Hydra Head protocol with respective advantages and current limitations. This post introduces a brief summary of the…
Implementing auction projects using Hydra
A paper by IOG and MLabs presenting a way for handling auctions using Hydra
20 January 2023 33 mins read
This project is a collaboration between Input Output Global (IOG) and MLabs to develop a reference implementation of an auction that uses Hydra protocols. The purpose of this is twofold:
- To demonstrate that it is now possible to develop substantial applications for a valuable use case with Hydra’s current implementation.
- To constructively determine and align Hydra Head protocol…
New Cardano cryptographic primitives to bring greater interoperability and secure, cross-chain DApp development
To make it easier for developers to build cross-chain applications, Input Output Global (IOG) is adding new built-in functions to Plutus to support ECDSA and Schnorr signatures
19 January 2023 4 mins read
Cryptography ensures trust and security in blockchain settings and different blockchains use different cryptographic signature methods. Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) and Schnorr signatures are two popular signature schemes used in blockchain platforms. Bitcoin and Ethereum, among other cryptographic systems, use ECDSA. Schnorr signatures, originally…
IOG launches a toolkit for developing custom sidechains on Cardano
Building sidechains on Cardano: documentation, components, and a working example
12 January 2023 8 mins read
Input Output Global (IOG) has assembled a team of specialist engineers to use the rock-solid foundation of Cardano to build a toolkit for building custom sidechains. Using the toolkit, they have constructed an Ethereum virtual machine (EVM)-compatible sidechain public testnet as a proof of concept. Sidechains make Cardano extensible and more scalable without compromising the…
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