IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson has replied to critics calling Cardano a scam that has not been able to develop any smart contracts since its launch. Baseless Allegations Drive Investors Away Responding to comments made by Bankless podcast co-owner David Hoffman, Hoskinson noted that over the years, podcasters had used their platform to level baseless allegations...Read More
IOHK, the company behind Cardano, has partnered with Orion Protocol, becoming the first liquidity aggregator of the Cardano blockchain. Orion has provided a non-custodial gateway to the crypto market by aggregating liquidity from crypto exchanges into a single DeFi platform. The partnership with Cardano comes after a series of integration to other protocols, such as...Read More
On March 31, Cardano will become a fully decentralized platform, this means that over 1,800 community pools will be responsible for block production. Since the release of the Shelley update in July 2020, Cardano was slightly criticized by the DeFi community for issuing their own blocks while its SPO (stake pool operator) was being developed,...Read More
While doing the necessary work on the upcoming hard fork Alonzo, Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson said that his project would also focus on NFTs and NFT marketplaces. He noted that Cardano has already carried conversations with several such marketplaces about potentially transitioning to its blockchain. Cardano and the NFT Mania Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) are undoubtedly...Read More
Cardano’s native cryptocurrency, ADA was trading at $0.9203 at the time of writing and is currently the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. For a token that surged by over 400% since the beginning of the year, questions arose as to what exactly caused the sudden surge in its price. According to Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson,...Read More
The much-anticipated Mary hard fork will take place today on the Cardano testnet at 20:20:16 UTC, according to an announcement made by IOHK a few hours ago. Via the said announcement, IOHK also confirmed that the Goguen native token upgrade will take place at the next testnet epoch rollover, transforming Cardano into a multi-asset network....Read More
Since the launch of Shelley in July 2020, implementing Goguen, the next era of the Cardano blockchain, has been the focus of the Cardano Foundation. However, the much-anticipated launch is still yet to be scheduled – something that may come down to the technical difficulties associated with executing it. The subject was touched upon by...Read More
Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson’s updates have been crucial to the development of the ecosystem over the past year. So is the case this time too, with IOHK’s CEO giving the community some important updates during his latest AMA. During the same, Hoskinson revealed that the Mary hard fork is coming in February, with the same...Read More
Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson took to YouTube recently to share his thoughts on what 2021 holds for Cardano’s governance, calling it “the most exciting year in the history of the project.” After gathering enormous amounts of data and training over 1000 Stake Pool Operators (SPOs), Cardano launched Shelley in July, a development which Hoskinson described...Read More
“I do not consider ETC my child and I have no expectations from the project,” IOHK’s Charles Hoskinson said during a recent AMA, remarks that were greeted with surprise by some since he was one of the co-founders of Ethereum back in 2013. While conducting a special New Year’s Eve AMA, the Cardano Founder went...Read More
The United States has been seeing many crypto-centric businesses come under stricter regulatory scrutiny lately. This was evidenced by the fact that the Treasury Department and other agencies on Wednesday asked the aforementioned firms to tighten protections against money laundering, while on the topic of the recent question of stablecoin regulations. According to a statement...Read More
News of the SEC lawsuit against Ripple has sent the price of XRP on a downward spiral, with the cryptocurrency falling by over 32% in the last 24 hours alone. Following the same, reactions were quick to come from all corners of the crypto-community, with Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse calling the lawsuit ‘illogical,’ claiming that...Read More
Following news of the partnership with Wolfram Alpha, Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson has revealed that Cardano will be giving developers the freedom to choose and customize their own Oracle solutions soon. The Oracle Access Layer will offer a rich oracle query experience, according to Hoskinson, and it will allow developers to choose from several sources...Read More
A hard fork was initiated on the Cardano network a few hours ago, one that has largely gone unnoticed, presumably due to the way in which it was executed. The hard fork was initiated to introduce the token locking mechanism to the Cardano blockchain and the complete transition will now take place on 16 December...Read More
Cardano’s ecosystem has been one of the most active ones this year, with every passing month bringing with itself a host of updates and developments. It is in the news again after Founder Charles Hoskinson recently shared a few updates on Cardano’s strategy in Africa. According to Hoskinson, it is likely that there will be...Read More
Cardano Founder and IOHK’s Charles Hoskinson recently shared a few brief updates with the community, a few days after IOHK introduced the ‘Smash’ metadata server for the Cardano ecosystem. While the said development was received well by most in the community, Hoskinson implied that there are some good announcements he is saving for the end...Read More
CEO of IOHK Charles Hoskinson, in a recently concluded surprise AMA, addressed viewers and provided the community with important updates on the much-anticipated Goguen Roadmap which will reportedly be released on 29 October. According to Hoskinson, Goguen will be released in a series of updates and hard fork events, each of which will add another...Read More
In a surprise AMA, Charles Hoskinson answered viewers’ questions on a Livestream, talking mostly about the developments of Cardano and its progress over the past few months. One answer in particular, however, generated a lot of excitement from viewers. In a response to a question about how easy it is to convince projects to move...Read More
In what seems like an update that was a long time coming, Bittrex’s $ADA wallet is up and running once again, processing deposits and withdrawals with the required updates to the Cardano protocol. The same was announced by Richie Lai, Co-founder and CIO of Bittrex, on Twitter. Yes it has happened… $ADA wallet open and...Read More
Charles Hoskinson tweeted yesterday to update the Cardano community on progress with the Shelley incentivized testnet. It comes as welcome news, baring minor issues, that the staking process has been largely successful.Very happy about the launch. Lots of minor issues and intermittent bugs reported. We will cut a new release with updates to Jormungandr, the...Read More
In what seems like a part of the ongoing effort toward its ecosystem’s development, Cardano Foundation announced teaming up with Messari. The official announcement stated, “We’ve joined @MessariCrypto for #Cardano to be listed in their #open-source disclosures registry to increase transparency. More details and formal announcement to follow once the listing is live.” This information...Read More
