On March 21st, Cardano saw a daily transaction volume 4 times higher than Bitcoin. This means that during those 24 hours, Cardano has the highest transaction volume in the entire blockchain industry. It marks a new all time high for the network when it comes to volume on-chain, and the second time Cardano has surpassed Ethereum in 2022.
The next upgrade to the Cardano network now has a date. Named after Bulgarian mathematician Vasil Dabov, this hard fork is set to increase the throughput of the network and increase processing capacity. The upgrade will introduce diffusion pipelining into the network, in short, it’s an improvement […]
At the time of this writing, the Solana network holds the record for most transactions per second on a live blockchain. The protocol is able to process up to 65,000 transactions per second, and on some occasions it has gone above that number. For this reason, Solana has become the gold standard in the industry when it comes to throughput.
Former EMURGO Academy student Kelly now works as a blockchain developer with Adanian Labs, EMURGO Africa’s strategic partner based in Kenya. EMURGO – the official commercial arm and a founding entity of Cardano – is strongly committed to providing career empowerment opportunities through online blockchain courses taught by its education […]
Blockchain Job Candidates Wanted Interest and job openings related to blockchain have significantly increased over the past few years and are expected to continue to grow as blockchain technology expands its real use cases. The past year alone has seen a huge global interest into […]
In the process of creating a more advanced architecture for its blockchain protocol, Cardano has taken a more research oriented approach. This has led to many innovations that give it an edge when it comes to the creation of crypto assets on its network. One […]
Cardano Smart Contracts are programs written on the Cardano blockchain platform. These programs are written in Plutus language and basically have transactions as the input and output. Programs in the smart contract are automatically executed should certain conditions be met. History and the current state […]
Plutus is perhaps quite the amalgamation of a few concepts. In precise terms, it is a functional programming language that is used to write smart contracts for the Cardano blockchain platform. It is based on the Haskell programming language and Lambda calculus, implementing the best […]
Haskell in its bare essence is a programming language that is purely functional. One of the more secure forms of code, due to being static and finds its place in various domains due to the numerous advantages it provides. However, Haskell has been around for […]
The world around us is getting digitized further every day. Due to this digitization, information of any kind is easily accessible. But certain sensitive data, like monetary and business transactions and exchange of assets, cannot depend on intangible trust, they need a solid foundation on […]