Luxury spirits brand chooses Cardano to verify alcohol supply chain

25 September 2021 Anthony Quinn 2 mins read

Luxury spirits brand chooses Cardano to verify alcohol supply chain

Strait Brands, an Australian luxury spirits company, is embracing a blockchain-first approach to managing its alcohol supply chain. Set to deliver four million bottles before the end of 2022, the business will build its production process around the Cardano platform. 

The partnership will see Strait Brands deploy a tamper-proof software system created by Input Output using Atala SCAN, which can record and store data securely and instantly verify the origins of products throughout the supply…

Bringing certified DApps to Cardano

We’ll unveil a new integrated approach at the Cardano Summit this weekend. Here’s a preview...

22 September 2021 Shruti Appiah 6 mins read

Bringing certified DApps to Cardano

The Alonzo upgrade has enabled the deployment of smart contracts, decentralized applications (DApps), and other applications on top of Cardano. All this is hugely significant for Cardano, as it will open Cardano to a whole new developer community whose creative drive will boost Cardano's utility and adoption.

Any new application ecosystem presents an enticing smorgasbord of…

Hydra – Cardano’s solution for ultimate Layer 2 scalability

Scalability is baked into the Cardano development roadmap; enter Hydra

17 September 2021 Sebastian Nagel 7 mins read

Hydra – Cardano’s solution for ultimate Layer 2 scalability

The Alonzo upgrade enables the creation of smart contracts, decentralized applications (DApps), and other applications on top of Cardano.

Alonzo marks a significant milestone in the Cardano journey, deploying base level scripting capability that will, in turn, enable further innovation and network development. It also starts the process of transforming a transactions & tokens…

Today will feel like a destination. Yet a new, exciting journey begins...

The Alonzo upgrade is an epochal moment in the birth of a new ecosystem

12 September 2021 Tim Harrison 10 mins read

Today will feel like a destination. Yet a new, exciting journey begins...

Later today, we'll deploy Plutus smart contract capabilities onto the Cardano mainnet via a hard fork combinator (HFC) protocol upgrade event.

The Alonzo upgrade will bring highly anticipated capabilities to Cardano through the integration of Plutus scripts onto the blockchain. These will allow the implementation of smart contracts on Cardano, enabling a host of new use cases…

Concurrency and all that: Cardano smart contracts and the EUTXO model

Cardano’s EUTXO model provides a secure and versatile environment to process multiple operations without system failures

10 September 2021 Olga Hryniuk 7 mins read

Concurrency and all that: Cardano smart contracts and the EUTXO model

Cardano is a UTXO-based blockchain, which utilizes a different programming paradigm for decentralized applications (DApps) from other account-based blockchains like Ethereum. The specific flavor Cardano uses is the Extended Unspent Transaction Output (EUTXO) model introduced by the Alonzo upgrade. EUTXO offers greater security allowing for smart contract execution cost…