2020年1月は新しい10年の幕開けを意味するだけでなく、ビットコイン誕生から11年目となります。この世界初の仮想資産は2009年1月3日に一般に公開されました。それからの10年はものすごい10年でした。そして私は今、次の10年を想い興奮を抑えられません。これからの10年、世界には多くの興味深いものがもたらされることになるでしょう。

急成長を遂げるブロックチェーン技術

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We’ve talked a lot about incentives lately. That’s because right now we’re running the Incentivized Testnet: a Shelley testnet that provides an opportunity for stakeholders to delegate their stake or operate a stake pool to earn real ada rewards. Later this month, anybody that had ada in either a Daedalus or Yoroi mainnet wallet during the balance snapshot (taken on November 2…

The initial phases of the Incentivized Testnet are underway. We’ve already completed the balance check – a practice run that helped us identify a few bugs and issues – in preparation for the balance snapshot, scheduled for just after 12:00 UTC on November 29.

As a reminder, the balance snapshot is a UTXO snapshot of ada balances held across the mainnet – and the amount of ada…

Over the past few months, we’ve been working towards a full release of the Shelley testnet. You may have been following our reports about progress on the self-node and networked phases. Now, we’re on the third and final phase before the Shelley mainnet goes live: an Incentivized Testnet that all ada holders can join to earn real ada rewards.

This marks an acceleration in the…

Last week, a team from IOHK, along with Cardano ambassadors and representatives from the Cardano Foundation, met up at a co-working space in London. After a quick presentation, laptops were switched on and a few Rock Pi computers were booted up. An hour later, we had them all connected in a peer-to-peer network of nodes. It was the first instance of the new networked Shelley…