KtorZ @_KtorZ_ Twitter profile

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KtorZ

1 year

As kindly suggested to me, here's a thread-of-threads, to list past threads I wrote and future ones I'll write. See it as a "low-effort" blog 😊 I thought it would be an appropriate way to end this year in retrospective. Enjoy. 👇👇

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KtorZ

@_KtorZ_

2 years

Today is my first day as Technical Director of Open-Source Development at @CardanoStiftung 😶 My role? Making #Cardano open-source development a reality, bit by bit. I'll be working with @_dirkhh and others from the Cardano community to keep the ball rolling; 🚀

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3 years

Ethereum Arbitrum vs #Cardano #Hydra , a thread about Layer 2 solutions. 👇👇👇

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3 years

Perhaps an unpopular opinion but, I truly dislike the wording "smart contracts". I used to find it confusing when I first got into crypto years ago, but now I dislike it even more in the context of Cardano. Why?👇

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2 years

Do people realize that "TPS" really makes no sense if we don't share a common definition of "transaction"? A transaction with 150 multi-assets outputs is certainly not the same as a single output with one asset. In case we didn't say it enough: TPS 👏 alone 👏 is 👏meaningless.

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1 year

Some months ago, I was asked what I thought would be #Cardano "next big thing". At the time, we only had a vague idea of what Leios was. The recent CIP from Duncan & al has shed some more light on it. Ouroboros Leios is definitely the most promising L1 upgrade to come 👇

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2 years

This bottle is on the #Cardano blockchain! It is leveraging transaction metadata to provide complete end-to-end traceability, authenticated by the wine producer. That's real world utility, right here.

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@_KtorZ_

7 months

Gm

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

After more than 4 years, I have decided to leave @InputOutputHK . Today is my last day. Some more details below 👇

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@_KtorZ_

1 year

Dear #Cardano community, please refer to me as 'Cardano Fanboy' from now on. Thanks.

Cardano Fanboy Details How Ouroboros Leios Is the Next Big Thing By CoinEdition

Cardano Fanboy Details How Ouroboros Leios Is the Next Big Thing

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

In other news, did you know that Vasil comes with a few changes regarding updatable protocol parameters? Remember 'd'? The block production decentralization parameter? Well, it's gone. There's no way back now. It's forever decentralized 🚀

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2 years

What's next? More open-source projects. More blog posts. More educational content. More help to get Cardano core components accessible. And I hope, more that I'll be able to announce soon. Let's open-source #Cardano development together!

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

#Cardano can do that. Stake ownership can be encoded as an on-chain contract, allow one user to withdraw associated rewards and let another manage the delegation. Icing the the cake, the stake remains liquid for the entire process.

Chris Burniske

@cburniske

2 years

Is there an easy method on Ethereum (or any L1) that allows one to stake & then send the interest to an address other than the principal’s address? Have a friend trying to support another friend internationally, and would like to re-route interest off his principal to do so 🙏

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2 years

Let's talk about transaction finality on Cardano today, because I keep seeing all sort of (wrong) claims on social medias, discord and al. (1/n) 👇

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@_KtorZ_

1 year

Wake up at 7. Fix bugs all day in the Aiken compiler. Take a quick break at 15:23. Go on Twitter. Read stuff like "CF employees are doing nothing". Make a puzzled face. Think about leaving Twitter for good. Go back coding.

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2 years

Today is Sunday. Like every Sunday. But today, let's talk about *the mempool*. And more specifically, the Cardano's mempool(s). Buckle up 👇

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3 years

After almost 3 years of hard work, I am now handing over the #Cardano wallet technical leadership. Native assets will be my last big milestone in this adventure. I am proud of everything we achieved 💪. It's now time for me to give life to mythical chimeras. Here I come #Hydra .

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6 months

Hey #Cardano folks, in case you missed this announcement. The Cardano's Academy is going live very soon! -> More than 100.000 words of knowledge about blockchain & Cardano turned into educational video. This is months of effort finally coming live 😌

Blockchain Course

In-depth training course to get you from beginner to advanced blockchain knowledge. Free access to high-quality, up-to-date, self-paced learning material.

academy.cardanofoundation.org

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

Steady progresses on the #Hydra proof-of-concept with another pre-release: end-to-end #Cardano node integration (on a private cluster), it's something 👌 Next steps, we'll focus on on-chain validations and closing the gap towards testnet!

Release 0.2.0 · input-output-hk/hydra

Added Direct chain integration which allows to connect to a real cardano-node / devnet; no on-chain validators though. Support alonzo transactions inside the Hydra Head. For now using a freeCostMo...

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@_KtorZ_

3 years

In the end, "smart contracts" feels like an imprecise term. Rather, I'd prefer more specific terms such as "on-chain validators" and "off-chain code". I reckon this is a hard one for marketing though... If anything, "smart-validators" sounds already much better to me 😊

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@_KtorZ_

3 years

I am *way* too excited about this to not share anything so... here we go. Ever heard of "Web 3.0"? This is a sneak peek of the new command-line REPL for powered by its brand new #TypeScript client (courtesy of @rhyslbw 🎁). #Cardano on the Web? Yes!

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

The Hard-Fork Combinator (a.k.a HFC): the good, the bad & the ugly. A tale of software engineering 👇

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

Three ideas for improving Plutus and the smart-contract developer experience submitted as #Cardano Improvement Proposals: - - - Noice 👌

CIP-33: Reference scripts by michaelpj · Pull Request #161 · cardano-foundation/CIPs

This CIP proposes adding "reference scripts" which allow satisfying script witnessing requirements using scripts attached to outputs rather than scripts provided by the spending transaction.

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@_KtorZ_

1 month

I am getting so tired of reading posts without much substance about why Cardano is bad, that I am tempted to just write one. The good, the bad and the ugly. Maybe some fair criticism from the inside could help set the story straight. Though I am afraid of the FUD potential...

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

It's sometimes hard to measure the amount of commitment of someone into a project. Sebastien is one of those faces of Cardano to me who's had a great impact on so many fronts. I am glad to have been working with him all those years. An amazing person and engineer!

Sebastien Guillemot

@SebastienGllmt

2 years

Reached 25K followers today! Although I usually only post technical tweets, I'll share fairly personal stuff about: - my life & career - mental health Maybe some of the 25,000 may find it interesting Thread ↓

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@_KtorZ_

7 months

Kupo + Hydra = 🔥 You dreamt about it. It's now real! Hydra heads are isomorphic state-channels, right? So what if you could "chain-index" a Hydra head in the same way you do for anything else on Cardano? Well, that's now possible with kupo v2.7.0 😎

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

I figured it could be worth worthwhile to write some digests of what's happening with the CIPs. Today was the #Cardano Improvement Proposals Editors Bi-weekly Meeting #52 , and here's what we've been through 👇

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@_KtorZ_

1 year

Here we go 🔥 Writing smart contracts on Cardano? We got you. Aiken is here, and we are thrilled to welcome pioneers to join us on this journey. Come and help us build stuff on testnet, and mature the ecosystem towards mainnet. A new era for Cardano smart contracts 🚀

Cardano Community

@Cardano

1 year

📣Exciting Announcement - Aiken's alpha phase has launched!📣 #Aiken is an open source #SmartContract language & toolchain, specifically created to simplify & enhance the development of smart contracts on #Cardano . Learn more below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ @aiken_eng @rvcas @_KtorZ_ @MicroProofs

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

Something not everyone realizes is that a Hydra head is "yet-another-DApp". It uses on-chain smart validators, it interacts with a cardano-node, observes the chain etc.. It's a DApp for creating off-chain mini ledgers on-demand that can settle on the layer 1 👌

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

Our latest increment of the #Hydra head protocol is now out! With it, we're happy to announce our user manual to help builders to get their hands into this beast! As always, everything is open-source & feedback is welcome 💖

Hydra: Head Protocol

User manual, core concepts, API reference

hydra.family

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@_KtorZ_

2 months

I am committed to making Cardano a better place for developers. Having been there for a while, I can appreciate the road behind us and the magnitude of the progresses we've made. There is still much to do, though. So y'all gotta have to bear with me for a little longer. 😘

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@_KtorZ_

3 years

A must-read for any DApp developer on #Cardano . I've rarely seen articles of that quality about the EUTXO model, Plutus design and the trade-offs of Cardano & Ethereum. Great stuff👏

Sundae Labs 🍨

@SundaeSwap

3 years

In light of the recent controversy regarding #Cardano ’s eUTXO model & concurrency, we wrote an article clarifying misconceptions and propose a few solutions. Grab your sundaes & get cozy, it’s a long one! Spread this far & wide, #Cardano Community! 🍨

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2 years

Today was CIP editors meeting #54 . We selected a few CIPs related to wallets and dApps integration, and we'll try to keep doing similar themed meetings moving forward. Here's a summary of what we covered 👇

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

1/5 Situations like this always make me reflect on what I do as a software engineer. I've been working in the FinTech & Blockchain industries for a while now and it's so easy to get something wrong that would then have massive consequences. Some thoughts...

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

With Cardano going more and more #opensource , there's an increasing need for guidance and expertise in the community. With deep technical knowledge on the various parts of the project, I intend to do exactly just that to help fostering an ecosystem. What about Hydra?

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

Probably nothing.

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

One thing that I often find disappointing with #Cardano cristisms is how people come with an observation, and immediately assume hypotheses to draw prompt conclusions which therefore, must be accepted. It's not only about "facts" but about rationale and context, as always.

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

In case some missed that part: The 👏 Vasil 👏 hard 👏 fork 👏 isn't 👏about👏Hydra! Nor any hard-fork really. Hydra is NOT a Cardano protocol update. It is a layer 2 solution, it runs atop. Hydra certainly benefits from Vasil but only indirectly (e.g. CIP-33).

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

Hydra is a prime example of open-source project. We've been doing our best to make the project as open and transparent as possible. And we'll continue to improve it. I will keep working on Hydra as an "external contributor". At least until we get the beast to Mainnet.

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@_KtorZ_

1 year

In case you wondered, here are some quick clarifications about the infamous 'collaterals' in #Cardano . There was an interesting conversation I was brought into and thought it could be interesting to turn it into a proper thread. All you ever wanted to know about collaterals 👇

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

I just realized that, after all this time, I am still not following @IOHK_Charles on Twitter😶. Should I? He seems to post relevant stuff about #Cardano from time to time 🤷

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

I am thrilled to announce a new project I've been working on for the past few weeks: Kupo: a fast, lightweight & configurable chain-index for #Cardano 🚀 What is this about 👇 ?

Release v1.0.0-beta · CardanoSolutions/kupo

Added Initial (beta) release: Synchronization from chosen point (--since POINT) Storage in-memory or on-disk (--workdir DIR | --in-memory) Multiple patterns via the command-line (--match) ...

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

Am I going away? No. I still believe in the grand vision of #Cardano and I'll keep working on the project. Over the past years, it has become clear that it is as part of the #Cardano community that I can bring the most value to the project.

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@_KtorZ_

1 year

The playground is here! Now trying #Aiken is only a few clicks away from you 💝

aiken

@aiken_eng

1 year

Aiken Playground - format code - check code - view test results - view warnings and errors All in the browser ...

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

Some thoughts to whom it may concern: In a system like Cardano, rewards are not the goal. The goal is, has always been, and should remain: the security of the network. Rewards are the mechanism whereby we incentivize behaviors in the system to reach that goal. (1/2)

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@_KtorZ_

1 year

Good morning #Cardano .

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

It seems like many people in the #Cardano community, builders or not, still don't know about the #CIP ! So let me explain a bit, and quickly dive into some of them👇👇 1/n

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3 years

Keep in mind also that Hydra heads are only a first step in the scalability roadmap. It won't stop there and we are already envisioning some nice extensions, so much that at some point, we'll need to chose in which direction we want to steer it :)

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2 years

After quite some work, back-and-forth and questioning, I am glad to finally present and open up to discussions this significant overhaul of the CIP process: Let's build #Cardano 's future together and find ways to work together better 🙏

(new) CIP-0001 & CIP-9999: Cardano Problem Statements by KtorZ · Pull Request #366 · cardano-foun...

This is a proposal to change CIP-0001 and rework how the CIP process currently function. This includes the introduction of a new type of document: Cardano Problem Statements (CPS); specified as par...

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@_KtorZ_

1 year

The past weeks have been busy in debates and feedback on CIP-1694. There has been the Longmont workshop in Colorado and many discussions on Twitter, forums & al. We've tried to capture this feedback into a new version of CIP-1694. Let me walk you through the core changes👇

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2 years

@IOHK_Charles I think what everyone is missing is a post-mortem. There was a critical flaw introduced on a *released version*. How did this happen? Why was it caught so late? What has been done to prevent it from happening again? Not providing an official post-mortem only creates more FUD.

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@_KtorZ_

3 years

Seriously, *who* is #Cardano ? Recently, I kept running into articles saying "Cardano did this..." or "Cardano is doing that..." but... In the end, who's Cardano? I guess that's the beauty of it. It's no one. And it's everyone. I think it's called *decentralisation*.

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3 years

Some see blockchains as fully programmable platforms, game engines, database and whatnot... But they really aren't. They're ledgers, and they keep track of transactions. Thus, keeping the on-chain, critical, executions at a minimum is *crucial* for security / audit.

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

Oof. I just voted "Solana" on a poll (which also offered Cardano as an option), because Twitter just actualized the feed moment before my finger touched the screen for scrolling 😳. Please forgive me. Fortunately, the poll was already 90% for Cardano thanks to all the bots.

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

Some have probably noticed but I've been oddly quiet about Hydra lately... There were many things I wanted to address properly, without creating FUD or unnecessary excitement. So here we go! A blog post to shed some light and truth on the Hydra head protocol 🙇

Input Output

@InputOutputHK

2 years

The Basho phase of #Cardano development is all about scaling and network optimization. The Hydra family of protocols is a key element on this steady path to increased performance and growth. Here’s the latest on progress 👇

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1 year

The education program is being rolled out to all the alpha testers / pioneers! As something we've put a lot of efforts in, this is very exciting. People have often mentioned the lack of documentation and onboarding content on #Cardano ; well, this is it!

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@I_Am_DTaylor

1 year

Very much looking forward to the release of the Education Alpha Program. Over the last few months we’ve been buidling and can’t wait to get initial feedback from the 600+ Alpha Testers that signed up during Summit 22. #CardanoCommunity #Blockchain #BlockchainEducation #Cardano

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@_KtorZ_

4 months

Yo. I am back. Roadmap for the year: - Keep building amazing OSS (Ogmios upgrade coming + Kupo read-only replicas). - More Aiken tooling (property testing & off-chain code gen from blueprints) - A cool tech-centric conference: - MORE education - MOAR 💝

Cardano Buidler Fest #1 | Buidl together

Buidl together

buidl.2024.cardano.org

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

There is so much happening behind the scenes that people don't suspect. This one, I am glad to see it awaking from the shadows. 🍨🐉

Sundae Labs 🍨

@SundaeSwap

2 years

Iykyk 🐉 See you soon

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@_KtorZ_

2 years

We have had transactions per transaction for a while now, and input endorsers will be bringing blocks per block. What's next? Chains per chain? Oh wait no, we already have that one. Nevermind.

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6 months

Current mood after this surge of Twitter/X love from the amazing #Cardano community.

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4 months

Quite a journey huh. Ogmios v6.0.0 is here, finally. ✅Clearer & uniform API with JSON-RPC 2.0 ✅Better transaction submission errors ✅Conway & SanchoNet support ✅AMD & ARM support ✅GHC 9.6 Thanks to all who helped test & who provided feedback 🙏

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2 years

PoNP: Proof of Nice Poll. White-paper coming soon.

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1 year

Curious about what the @Cardano_CF has achieved last year? Well, we compiled everything in a report just for y'all 😘

Cardano Foundation

@Cardano_CF

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📣 Today we launch our FIRST EVER Annual Report! 🎊 Discover key 2022 achievements and see how they fit along the Foundation's core focus areas of: ➡️ Operational Resilience ➡️ Education ➡️ Adoption #CFAnnualReport2022 #CardanoFoundation 👇👇👇

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2 years

3/5 At this stage, what I expect from @InputOutputHK and @COTInetwork is a (public) postmortem analysis of UST, as a case study to validate or reformulate hypotheses made for Djed. Being fully algorithmic means that, you can't get it wrong.

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2 years

@cardano_whale A nice side effect of being a Cardano expert is the ability to rule out crypto media or influencers based on their Cardano content. If they put enough research in and provide accurate information about Cardano, I trust them to do the same with other projects. Otherwise, ciao.

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2 years

A little Christmas present slightly in advance🎄🎁 Ogmios 5.0.0, the JSON/WebSocket bridge for #Cardano 🚀 Some breaking-changes in this one, but for a greater good! The awaited new *local transaction monitor* mini-protocol will follow in 5.1.0!

Release v5.0.0 · CardanoSolutions/ogmios

Added New state-query systemStart to access the blockchain start time (UTC). New state-query chainTip to access the blockchain current tip (may slightly differ from the ledgerTip which may be b...

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3 years

The cardano-serialization-lib, another tool to have in your swiss-knife for developing applications with #Cardano I won't stress it enough but remember it's _open-source_. That means you can contribute (to doc, to code, to examples)!

GitHub - Emurgo/cardano-serialization-lib: This is a library, written in Rust, for serialization &...

This is a library, written in Rust, for serialization & deserialization of data structures used in Cardano's Haskell implementation of Alonzo along with useful utility functions. - ...

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Sebastien Guillemot

@SebastienGllmt

3 years

📢 Cardano developers The Rust SDK (cardano-serialization-lib) has basic support for Alonzo now! There will be more work done on utility functions & expanding the library, but this should be good enough for wallets & exchanges who want to integrate Alonzo

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What's that 🤔? Prolly nothing. Bots building on #Cardano or something, I don't know... @ccvaultio @blockfrost_io @dcspark_io @NamiWallet

Release v5.1.0 · CardanoSolutions/ogmios

Added New LocalTxMonitor support in Ogmios. See The user guide for more details. (:bulb: @mmahut) ⚠️ This new protocol is NOT enabled in [email protected].*. Until its inclusion in a next releas...

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Delay is good. Vasil is arguably the first hard-fork with an actually large ecosystem that goes beyond SPOs. People need time to upgrade and integrate new features. It's no longer a matter of just upgrading a software, it's now many components across the entire Cardano ecosystem

HERO Earth Node

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2 years

#Cardano $ADA INSIDER LEAK! Cardano Vasil Hardfork Delay Inevitable

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Sorry, was busy building and apparently missed the memo asking to say all sort of non-sense about #Cardano . Anyway, Ogmios 5.3.0 is now out! With a fresh API documentation💅, I hope you like it. And as always, your feedback is what makes it great🙏

Release v5.3.0 · CardanoSolutions/ogmios

Added In the Local-Tx-Monitor protocol, NextTx can now take an (optional) extra argument { "fields": "all" } to instrument the server in returning not only a transaction id in...

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Property-based testing is probably the number one reason I fall in love with functional programming to begin with. It has been on Aiken's roadmap since almost day 1, so I am really glad to have finally taken a big stab at it. This opens up so much more 🔥. I am hyped.

aiken

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What happens when formal methods and developer experience join forces? ➡️ Enters Aiken's property-based testing framework. You may not realize it yet, but your smart-contract testing just made a major leap forward. What is this about? 👇

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Time to fly to warm sunny Colorado. I am glad that @InputOutputHK went for a CIP regarding the first step of evolutions for the protocol. Yet it seems that the CIP process, its goals and actors are still not well understood. In particular w.r.t CIP-1694 Some clarifications👇

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2 years

No. Blockchains are programmable distributed ledgers. Not databases, not game engines, not general purpose computers; just, ledgers. They record who owns what, and they allow transfer of assets using possibly complex rules and contracts between parties.

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2 years

Blockchains are (virtual) computers, not databases.👇

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Cardano introduces the concept of programmable validators. Validators are fully deterministic: their result entirely depends on the transaction that carries them (= predictable fees). In a sense, they are similar to the notion of "pure functions" in functional programming.

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1 year

In case you were not aware, Colin and his team are doing an amazing R&D work with Hydra. Hydra is, in essence, a tool. You need to use it. So shout out to the brave souls out there pioneering Hydra-based architectures. ❤️

Colin

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1 year

📐 early Android testing in realtime with a teammate on another continent #FastFinality #Hydra

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Compared to most existing smart-contract platforms, Cardano takes a much different road. Recently, we've seen a lot of discussions going on about "concurrency issues" and "EUTXO vs accounts". While equally expressive, Cardano programmability is different and atypical.

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Another hot and quite captivating topic these days is whether or not #Cardano needs a *fee market*. I don't have myself a definitive answer for I think a large part of the answer is not software-related, but about economics. Here's my two lovelace nonetheless... 👇👇 1/n

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Unlike Ethereum, Solana, Algorand and al, there's no such thing as "deploying" a smart-contract on Cardano. Instead, validators are implicitly referred to by hashes prior to their use, and they are disclosed upon activation. This can be a little bit unsettling at first.

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It would be nice to have a nice-and-easy way to evaluate execution units of #Plutus scripts for DApps, wouldn't it 😏? GUESS WHAT! Ogmios keeps to play a role in fueling the #Cardano ecosystem with love and tooling 💝

Release v5.2.0 · CardanoSolutions/ogmios

Added Extended the local-tx-submission protocol with a new EvaluateTx query which evaluates execution units of scripts present in a transaction. This effectively piggybacks on the Alonzo's to...

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People be like: "With the first head opened on testnet, Hydra can now be tested" 🤔 Hmm. We didn't wait for the testnet to start testing you know. Actually, the first thing we wrote for Hydra a year ago was a test and we've been test-driving its development ever since.

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This is probably the project that'll have the most significant impact on the Cardano developer ecosystem over the next few months. This is just an incredible piece from @txpipe_tools once again. 🙇‍♂️

Demeter

@DemeterRun

2 years

Hello World👋 Ready to code in #Cardano ? quick intro in 🧵... #BuildingOnCardano #CardanoCommunity

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A direct consequence of this means that, validators aren't actually producing anything. They just validate. The on-chain execution is thus only about validation and verification, as it should. Other more expensive operations are seemingly kept off-chain.

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The final CIP-1694 workshop is now over, it's been a pleasure once again to meet with the Cardano community. It's always different from any online interaction, and it's where real magic happens. Few of my key takeaways from this workshop 👇

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2 years

Open source all the things!

The Linux Foundation

@linuxfoundation

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BIG NEWS: @Cardano joins The Linux Foundation as a Gold Member! #Cardano #OpenSource #OSSummit

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I'd like to toss another perspective into the CIP-1694 debate which it seems many folks forget. The engineering reality. There's a lot of discussion about what we want as governance but not so much about when we want it. Yet, these dimensions are deeply connected. 👇

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It kind of makes me sad when after an update, all "media" talks about is whether or not it's going to pump the price.. There are so much more to talk about: - What is it about? - What problem does it solve? - What limitations? - What's next? - What project will use it? 😔

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Sometimes, I really feel like a developer therapist. I am like, asking builders to tell me about their problems, what bothers them, how they'd want things to be. And then, I try to do something about it. Bit by bit. Truth is, I am not alone doing that. The future is bright 🔆

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Quite happy with the small rework here: This should make it even easier to find the right developer tools for the job to build on #Cardano 🚀

Builder Tools | Cardano Developer Portal

Tools to help you build on Cardano

developers.cardano.org

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3 years

In Cardano, "smart-contracts" tend to refer to the combination of the on-chain validator(s) and the off-chain code that's driving it / them. Yet, I often see people mixing up validators and smart-contracts: when one says smart contracts, they really mean validators.

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Hey #Cardano community, don't forget to nominate awesome projects and folks for the upcoming summit awards ceremony. This is a good opportunity to show some well-deserved love to actors of our community💝

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Morning thoughts: blockchain, fee and scalability. There were discussions recently on the throughout and the infamous "TPS" as a means of comparison. It gave me some thinking. So bear with me, it might be a bit more disorganised than usual but, hopefully understandable. 👇

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Does #Cardano need rollups (optimistic or zk)? Probably not. Rollups are a technical solution to a particular problem: cost of on-chain computation. Rollups move on-chain computation off-chain, while keeping most of the traffic on chain. 1/n

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Here comes that time of the year again where I need to explain to one part of the family that no, I don't do Windows, and to the other part that no, Cardano is neither a Ponzi scheme nor it is a massive energy hole calculating hashes over and over. On the plus side: food 💛.

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Meanwhile, we continue to work on bridging #Cardano to WebSocket & JSON with Ogmios latest major release v4.0.0 🚀! Full support for #Alfonzo blocks, scripts and literally anything doable with cardano-node 😎. It's huge, check out the release notes!

Release v4.0.0 · CardanoSolutions/ogmios

Added Integrated with the Cardano eco-system corresponding to [email protected] (Alonzo!) & latest testnet(s). New alonzo block type, with various additions related to Alonzo. New state...

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Fun fact: the minimum amount of Ada for an output hasn't been 1 Ada for ... almost 3 years now. It's actually been *less*. 🤨 ? .... Let's dive in 👇

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2 years

5/5 Often enough, we only see the visible feature set of a software and think "that's all? It took all that time for just this?", but behind, there's a lot going on to make sure it does work as it's intended to. When some fail, understand why, and learn from it.

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@cardano_whale About 5460 unique visitors on on the past 30 days (~1000 few months ago). Most viewed pages are "installation instructions", "getting started / hello world" and "eUTxO fundamentals". Doesn't look like builders leaving the ecosystem to me.

Aiken | A modern smart contract platform for Cardano

A modern smart contract platform for Cardano

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2 years

One thing that brought me into Cardano initially was the attention to details and to security. When looking at proposals / projects on Catalyst, pay attention to those. Be careful about projects that can't explain the details or give strong security rationale. Be critical.

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I was in Barcelona this week to attend the Audit & Certification workshop organized by IOG. Great time to meet with some old and new faces 😊 Key take-aways: - Audit your DApp; - Seriously, get your stuff audited; - Write property-tests! Proper-what? 🤔👇

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