Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin set up a pair of polls on Twitter asking his followers if 80% of all transactions and savings in the year 2035 are in one currency and it is not ether, which currency they would prefer it to be. He asked them to choose from a number of cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, cardano, solana, tron, and Binance coin. Vitalik Buterin’s Cryptocurrency Twitter Polls Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin set up a pair of polls on Twitter Thursday for the Ethereum community. “You wake up in 2035 and 80%…
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“We Are Building a Secure Lending Platform on Cardano”
Starting ADALend CEO Kaspars Koskins interview series, one of the most promising companies that is revolutionizing the lending industry by using blockchain technology to disintermediate the traditional middlemen – providing unprecedented access to loans for those ignored by the traditional banking system and providing high yields for investors in a persistently low-interest-rate environment. I hope you are as excited for this conversation as we are so let’s jump in. Q: Welcome Kaspars, we know you are a busy gentleman these days with the public launch of the ADALend lending platform…
Cardano Enters The Basho Stage: How It Improves Performance
The software platform Cardano has entered the third stage of its roadmap, the Basho era. It promises to improve the network’s performance and scalability. Cardano’s roadmap is “a summary of Cardano development” divided into five eras to deliver improvements in diverse functionalities of the network that are “delivered across multiple code releases”. Now that the platform’s core smart contract capability Plutus has been deployed, the launch of the Basho era focuses on scaling Cardano, promising “Parameter adjustments, improvements, enhancements and other innovations” supposed to increase the network’s capacity. They also…
Cardano Jumps 7% After Coinbase Fixes Withdrawal Bug
Cardano (ADA) followed many layer 1 tokens and posted gains during the Asian trading hours on Thursday. Cardano rose 7% soon after Coinbase restarted withdrawals on Wednesday. Traders started facing withdrawal issues last week. Sentiments in Asia were further buoyed after Hong Kong’s central bank, Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), seemed to provide an open ear to crypto stakeholders in a new discussion paper. Cardano was trading at $1.30 by mid-day Hong Kong time, up 6% in the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko. Other layer 1 tokens, such as…
Cardano Foundation Completes Funding To Plant 1 Million Trees
Last year, the Cardano Foundation announced that it was partnering with Veritree to plant a million trees. This partnership was part of the project’s commitment towards going carbon green and helping to combat climate change. Over the next few months, the foundation had continued to push this project, raising money in the process for the trees. Now, the foundation is ready to begin planting its million trees as it completes funding for its project. Cardano To Plan 1 Million Trees In Kenya In a recent tweet, Chief Executive Officer of…
Cardano Reaches Goal of Planting 1M Trees
Transactional data shows large amounts of cardano were bestowed towards the effort. One wallet exchanged 100,000 cardano for 100,000 tree tokens – worth over $118,000 at the time of writing – to become the biggest donor for the cause. Other large donors exchanged amounts ranging from 5000 cardano (≈$5,900 at press time) to 87500 cardano (≈$103,900 at press time). Source
Cardano Ecosystem Explodes, Why ADA Could Resume Bullish Trend
Cardano (ADA) has followed the general trend in the market and records losses across the board. The seventh crypto by market cap trades at $1.22 with a 2.2% and 10% loss in the past 24 hours and 7 days, respectively. Related Reading | What’s Beef? Reviewing The Historic Battle Of Ethereum vs. Cardano ADA on a downtrend in the 4-hour chart. Source: ADAUSDT Tradingview However, Cardano continues to be one of the most active ecosystems in the crypto industry. This won it the title for most active project on GitHub…
Cardano became the most developed crypto on Github in 2021 — Santiment
According to data compiled by CryptoRank and Santiment, Cardano (ADA) was the most developed crypto on Github in 2021, with over 140,000 events. Rounding out the top three were Kusama and Polkadot at second and third places, respectively, with roughly the same number of events over the year. Cardano beat Ethereum’s development activity by a wide margin, with the latter coming in at fourth place. Santiment defines a Github event as either creating an issue, creating a pull request, commenting on an issue or pull request, and forking/starring/watching a code…
What’s Beef? Reviewing The Historic Battle Of Ethereum vs. Cardano
In every sport or form of competition, we see established rivals come to life. In basketball, it’s the Lakers and the Celtics, in boxing we’ve seen the likes of Furry vs Wilder, and in hip-hop, we often hear about Nas vs Jay-Z. Today in the world of crypto we have had a melting pot, stuffed with all kinds of herbs brewing a beef. One that was widely recognized, but that has slowly begun to fade is Ethereum and Cardano. Let’s take a look into the history of these blockchain giants.…
VCs don’t understand that Cardano has a community: Charles Hoskinson
In a recent YouTube video, Charles Hoskinson highlighted the rapid growth of the Cardano (ADA) ecosystem while clarifying the concerns raised by other members of the crypto community over the past year. “We live in a world where arbitrary groups of people get to be fact-checkers and decide what’s legitimate,” said Hoskinson while speaking about the government’s perception of cryptocurrencies. He pointed out that a vast majority of financial crimes are done with the U.S. dollar or other fiat currencies. According to Hoskinson, the growth of the crypto ecosystem this…