Diving deeper into the Marlowe Playground

Learn how to make your own templates from Marlowe contracts and provide hints to users using custom metadata

4 March 2022 Pablo Lamela 7 mins read

Diving deeper into the Marlowe Playground

Marlowe is a domain-specific language (DSL) embedded in Haskell that offers financial contracts for blockchain that everyone can code. It is a platform for decentralized finance (DeFi) that supports direct, peer-to-peer lending, contracts for difference (CFD), and other similar instruments. Marlowe allows users to apply their domain expertise to write and manage contracts…

Project Catalyst, Cardano’s innovation engine, launches Fund8!

Project Catalyst is a turbo-charged engine for Cardano, accelerating the ecosystem’s growth and making dreams come true

2 March 2022 Kriss Baird 4 mins read

Project Catalyst, Cardano’s innovation engine, launches Fund8!

Every three months, a new Project Catalyst innovation fund campaign begins with the opportunity to receive resources paid in ada from the Cardano Treasury. Valuable resources to build, create, and contribute to realize great ideas worthy of funding.

In little over a year, what began as an experiment in collaboration, competition, and elevating human potential has become the world’s largest decentralized innovation fund. The latest iteration, Fund8, will control $16m in ada, check out the Fund8 Launch Guide

From node enhancement to block leadership… Cardano’s February release

In 2022 we’re grouping multiple code releases to improve delivery predictability for the ecosystem. Here’s what’s coming in our first major update of 2022

28 February 2022 Tim Harrison 4 mins read

From node enhancement to block leadership… Cardano’s February release

Following the deployment of smart contract capabilities with the Alonzo update, Cardano is now focused on performance optimization and scalability. We’re now starting to see a diverse range of decentralized applications (DApps) and exchanges (DEXs) launch, with many more to come over the months ahead. 2022 is the year when Cardano starts evolving into a platform to provide…

The knowledge base for Cardano is growing: Cardano Stack Exchange graduates from Beta version

A fresh Q&A site will facilitate knowledge-sharing for all Cardano related topics

7 February 2022 Ignacio Calderon de la Barca 4 mins read

The knowledge base for Cardano is growing: Cardano Stack Exchange graduates from Beta version

Cardano Stack Exchange (CSE), a community-driven knowledge base for Cardano, is now recognized by Stack Exchange as a mature learning community, putting it in a class with some of the biggest knowledge curation sites on the internet.

The demand for in-depth technical knowledge about Cardano has consistently increased as more people invest their time in building on Cardano. Such…

Implementing Hydra Heads: the first step towards the full Hydra vision

The Hydra Head, the first in a suite of protocols, is an important element of Cardano’s scaling journey. Let’s see how it fits into the bigger picture. And maybe bust some myths

3 February 2022 Matthias Benkort 12 mins read

 Implementing Hydra Heads: the first step towards the full Hydra vision

We’ve done the science and the theory. We have laid the foundations for a scalable, versatile, and high-throughput blockchain. Now it’s time for steady growth and system enhancements. With the goal of creating an optimized ecosystem to support and foster decentralized applications (DApps) development, Cardano is in the foothills of the Basho phase. With smart contracts already…