Tagged: ada

June 19, 2021 @ 1:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Professor Aggelos Kiayias, a Greek computer scientist, currently a professor at the University of Edinburgh, has published a blog post titled “Stablefees and the Decentralized Reserve System.” Kiayias notes in a blog posted by IOHK, the company supporting Cardano development, that  facilitating transactions via crypto… Read More

June 8, 2021 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Kraken notes in its latest Kraken Intelligence report that May was a rather “unpleasant” month for crypto. The Kraken Intelligence team points out that with such a “severe” price correction, some may now be wondering whether “the party that began last September… Read More

June 5, 2021 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nervos, China’s leading public blockchain, and the team at IOHK, a global blockchain engineering firm and creators of the Cardano (ADA) blockchain, recently revealed that they are  forming a cross-chain bridge that will link the Cardano and Nervos networks. As mentioned in a release shared… Read More

May 13, 2021 @ 9:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

After Elon Musk’s Tesla announced that it would no longer accept Bitcoin payments due to concerns regarding the excessive consumption of electricity (and fossil fuels) in BTC mining, the Cardano Foundation has come forward to suggest that Cardano (ADA) and Tesla could potentially be an… Read More

April 20, 2021 @ 9:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, Coinbase Pro will be adding support for new order books for several major digital assets including the Basic Attention Token (BAT), Cardano (ADA), Decentraland (MANA) and USDC (USDC). As noted in a blog post by the digital assets firm, the… Read More

April 9, 2021 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Alonzo will be developing on Cardano’s (ADA) token upgrades in order to give application developers the tools needed for creating business applications. IOHK, which supports Cardano development, notes in a blog post that at the beginning of March 2021, they implemented Mary ‒ which is… Read More

March 17, 2021 @ 8:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beginning on March 16, 2021, Coinbase Pro users may transfer Cardano (ADA) into their accounts ahead of scheduled trading. Support for ADA tokens will be available at all of Coinbase’s “supported jurisdictions.” Trading will begin “on or after 9AM Pacific Time (PT) Thursday March 18,… Read More

March 15, 2021 @ 5:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cardano (ADA), a major blockchain platform for building decentralized applications or dApps, has introduced an extended UTXO accounting model that’s developed specifically to support multi-assets and smart contracts. Cardano developers recently provided an overview of the Extended UTXO model that’s being employed by Cardano. The… Read More

March 8, 2021 @ 6:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The rollercoaster ride that is Bitcoin’s (BTC) and the wider crypto market’s latest rally has some wondering if we’re nearing a market top. However, Kraken analysts are not convinced that we’ve reached the top just yet. Kraken Intelligence, the US-based digital asset exchange’s team of… Read More

January 25, 2021 @ 10:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The blockchain and digital assets space is well-positioned for even more growth and adoption in 2021 by mainstream consumers and institutions. The COVID-19 outbreak has dramatically accelerated the shift towards all-digital platforms and services because it’s no longer considered safe to visit physical business locations…. Read More

January 17, 2021 @ 3:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOHK (or Input Output Hong Kong), an organization focused on supporting open-source projects such as Cardano (ADA), a major platform for building decentralized applications (dApps), has announced the first winning proposals for Project Catalyst. The community has spoken and 11 initiatives are now expected to… Read More

December 6, 2020 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The development team at Cardano (ADA), a major DLT network for building decentralized applications or dApps, notes that the platform’s development has been conceived as “a journey involving five overlapping development themes, each of which is underpinned by a consensus protocol – Ouroboros.” Kevin Hammond,… Read More

October 10, 2020 @ 11:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at IOHK, an organization supporting the development of Cardano (ADA), a blockchain-based platform for creating decentralized applications (dApps), have introduced Marlowe, which serves as a new programming language for writing financial contracts. As noted in a blog post published on the IOHK website,… Read More

October 5, 2020 @ 9:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitfinex, a major digital asset exchange, will be introducing staking rewards for ADA, the native crypto token of Cardano, a blockchain-based platform for developing decentralized applications (dApps). According to the Cardano team, which is led by its founder Charles Hoskinson, the distributed ledger tech (DLT)… Read More

September 7, 2020 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), a leading cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, will be offering four new altcoin/USDT underlying “quanto” futures contracts for EOS, Chainlink (LINK), Tezos (XTZ), and Cardano (ADA). These new contracts are being introduced in order to expand the exchange’s existing altcoin (or… Read More

August 1, 2020 @ 12:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Cardano blockchain completed a “historic” hard fork (backwards incompatible upgrade) on July 29, 2020 – which initiated the launch of the highly-anticipated Shelley mainnet (main or production ready network). The open-source blockchain-based development platform will try to compete with Ethereum, EOS, and Tron (TRX)… Read More

July 5, 2020 @ 12:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cardano’s native crypto token, ADA, might get listed on San Francisco-based digital asset exchange Coinbase by the end of this year. ADA investors will soon have the option of staking their digital assets via Coinbase Custody. A representative from IOHK (Input Output Hong Kong), the… Read More

June 26, 2020 @ 10:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lars Brünjes, the Director of Education at InputOutputHK, an organization that supports the ongoing development of Cardano (ADA), a blockchain-enabled solution for building and deploying decentralized applications (dApps), says that establishing solid parameter values and maintaining flexibility will be “key to the growth and ongoing… Read More

May 21, 2020 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOHK (Input/Output Hong Kong), a research and development (R&D) firm focused on bringing innovation via blockchain and cryptocurrencies, has confirmed that it will be joining the Hyperledger initiative and W3C. Hyperledger is an open-source project focused on blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) development. It… Read More

March 20, 2020 @ 11:08 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Challenger bank Tandem recently announced the launch of its new AI system, Ada. According to Tandem, Ada is a self-learning platform that is designed to deliver insights to add value to the baning group customers’ lives. “We have lots of information about our customers, about… Read More