As a project, decentralization remains arguably our most important and fundamental goal for Cardano. Protocols and parameters provide the foundations for any blockchain. Last week, we outlined some of the planned changes around Cardano parameters and how these will impact the staking ecosystem and thus accelerate our decentralization mission.

Yet the community itself – how it sees itself, how it behaves, and how it sets common standards – is a key factor in the pace of this success. Cardano has been very carefully engineered to provide “by design” all the necessary properties for a blockchain system to operate successfully. However, Cardano is also a social…

Shelley continues to evolve and, as it does, IOHK is committed to supporting the healthy development of the Cardano ecosystem. There are many factors at play in this regard: everything from the wallet experience for ada delegators to network tools for stake pool operators; from governance and funding frameworks like Project Catalyst and Voltaire to community-led initiatives…

Simon Peyton Jones has just announced the launch of the Haskell Foundation at the Haskell eXchange virtual conference. The foundation is an independent, open, non-profit organization dedicated to broadening the adoption of the Haskell language, by supporting its ecosystem of tools, libraries, education, and research.

IOHK is one of the first sponsors of the Haskell Foundation…

In a previous post, Bringing new value and utility to the Cardano blockchain, I discussed the notion of transaction metadata. I also explained why this is crucial to Cardano’s Goguen evolution as a utility platform for decentralized finance (DeFi) operations.

There are many potential uses for metadata. With that in mind, IOHK has been working to ensure that both developers and…

Goguen（ゴーグエン）のロールアウトとともに、Cardanoはスマートコントラクトプラットフォームとなります。処理されるデータに関する情報であるメタデータをトランザクションに追加することがこの鍵となりますが、先月この機能がブロックチェーンに追加されました。トランザクションに焦点が当てられていたCardanoは、今や分散型金融（DeFi）の時代を定義する複雑な操作に対応できる、パートナーシップ、企業、および商用アプリケーションに開かれた、ユーティリティプラットフォームへとシフトしています。

暗号資産の財務運用の規模が拡大するにつれ、特にウェルスマネジメントなどのアプリケーションにとって、変更不可能な不変のデータへのアクセスが可能であることは極めて重要です。Cardano…