Simplicity and Michelson

A programming language that is too simple

2017年 12月 9日 Prof Philip Wadler 10 分で読めます

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Simplicity

Only once in my life have I encountered a programming language that was too simple to use. That was Lispkit Lisp, developed by Peter Henderson, Geraint Jones, and Simon Jones, which I saw while serving as a postdoc at Oxford, 1983–87, and which despite its simplicity was used to implement an entire operating system. It is an indightment of the field of programming…

What is our release strategy for Cardano?

A new development approach from IOHK engineers will bring benefits to users

2017年 12月 1日 Jeremy Wood 4 分で読めます

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What is our release strategy for Cardano?

Since the release of mainnet, IOHK engineers have not only started work planning the new features of Shelley, the next big release, but have also been evolving the way they work. The biggest change is that the team developing Cardano will follow a new release cycle where updates are more regularly made to the live software. This is now possible because we have the foundation of…

Ethereum Classic community comes together at successful Hong Kong summit

Principles and plans for growth unite participants at event organised by Grayscale

2017年 11月 22日 Jeremy Wood 10 分で読めます

Ethereum Classic community comes togeth

Since day one, Ethereum Classic has been driven by principles. What began as a disparate group of people who came together after the DAO hack and the consequent hard fork on Ethereum has now become a strong and growing community, united by a belief in immutability and that code is law. So it was tremendously exciting to see everyone gather at the first Ethereum Classic Summit…

Writing a High-Assurance Blockchain Implementation

Guest blog from Edsko de Vries, who is working on the high assurance implementation of the Ouroboros blockchain protocol

2017年 11月 3日 Edsko de Vries 9 分で読めます

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Writing a High-Assurance Blockchain Implementation

In our previous blog post Cryptocurrencies need a safeguard to prevent another DAO disaster we discussed the need for high assurance development of cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain protocols. We also sketched one way in which one might go about this, but we did not give much detail. In this follow-up blog post we delve into computer science theory a bit more…

Introducing the Cardano roadmap

Next steps of development are charted ahead of further information releases

2017年 10月 31日 Charles Hoskinson 9 分で読めます

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Introducing the Cardano roadmap

Cardano has been an incredibly challenging and fun project to work on involving many teams throughout the world with different skills and opinions on design, process and quality. Our core technology team consists of Well Typed, Serokell, Runtime Verification, Predictable Network Solutions and ATIX, with IOHK leading them. Then we have external auditors such as Grimm, RPI Sec…