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Cardano is making waves in the world of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), with more platforms launching to offer lending, borrowing, and trading. The growth in Cardano's DeFi and NFT areas suggests it could become a popular choice for financial services, but it's still early days.
Either way, it's an exciting time for anyone interested in new, decentralized financial options.
Let’s get into it 👇
📊 Cardano Ecosystem Stats
🚀 Cardano Headlines
Plutus V3 introduces significant enhancements to the Cardano blockchain, making it easier and more efficient for developers to create smart contracts.
This upgrade brings enhanced performance, enabling developers to do things like port contracts from Ethereum and build sidechain bridges more effectively.
With features like improved data encoding methods and advanced cryptographic functions, Plutus V3 aims to speed up contract execution and enhance security. It's now being tested on SanchoNet, offering a glimpse into future governance capabilities and further fostering the growth of the Cardano developer community.
This step marks a leap forward in making Cardano a more versatile and developer-friendly blockchain platform. Read more here.
🔓Unlocking new possibilities: #Plutus V3 brings advanced cryptographic capabilities, improved performance with sums of products, and robust bitwise primitives.
🤿 Dive into the details in this latest blog post: iohk.link/3w7ozDS
— Input Output (@InputOutputHK)
3:46 PM • Feb 12, 2024
In Other News
💸 Blockchain Headlines
What’s the you say? BTC’s back at $50K? Already?
Poor one out for the pour souls who thought it wouldn’t ever get itself out of the trenches (sorry Paul, we couldn’t help ourselves). 😁
OK, folks, this is getting impressive
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman)
7:42 PM • Jun 18, 2022
In Other News
📢 Cardano Community Corner
From Plutus v3 chatter to “just buy ADA, bro”, the Cardano Community never sleeps! Let’s check in on what the talk of the town has been this week.
IOG just released Plutus V3!🤯🏋️♂️
- More Functionality
- Better Performance
- Ready for Governance
- More Efficient
Cardano!🏌️♂️— Lucid (@LucidCiC)
4:56 PM • Feb 12, 2024
We are just a few months away from zero-knowledge smart contracts coming to Cardano. Plutus V3 will enable zkFold's products for Cardano developers!
— zkFold (@zkFold)
1:43 AM • Feb 13, 2024
The cat's out of the bag, nview has a new look. We plan on continuing the updates to provide a more dynamic view of a Cardano Node.
Grab nview v0.9.0 from blinklabs.io/downloads or execute nview from within a Blink Labs cardano-node container image 8.7.3-3 or higher.
— Blink Labs (@blinklabs_io)
11:09 PM • Feb 9, 2024
Soon, you can discover the power of Metera Protocol on the #Cardano Blockchain! 🔥
Revolutionizing decentralized finance, Metera offers transparent, diversified tokenized portfolios (MTKs) and other unique asset management tools backed by rigorous impact assessment.
Invest… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Metera Protocol | ISPO Live: MTERA (@MeteraProtocol)
4:04 PM • Feb 9, 2024
Restarting the blockchain as often as #Solana is a security issue.
During the outage, the team can manipulate transactions or delete part of the blockchain history.
Transactions processed shortly before the outage may be accidentally lost. A double-splend problem may occur.
In… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Cardano YODA (@JaromirTesar)
9:32 AM • Feb 8, 2024
The Voltaire era of #Cardano represents the first step toward a global, decentralized government, where people are bound—not by geopolitical ties & national borders— but rather by the network.
— Clarity Protocol d/acc (@clarity_dao)
3:47 AM • Feb 13, 2024
Back to our regularly scheduled programming 🫡
OADA - the first true yield aggregation on Cardano 🚀
SOON™️ (T - 2 months) 👇
— Optim Finance (@OptimFi)
4:33 PM • Feb 8, 2024
Intersect Grants - The response to developing tools and materials to support #Cardano’s #governance has been fantastic. Over 50 member funding applications are being considered, with more #grant opportunities on the horizon. Learn more about #funding here: buff.ly/49zKult
— Intersect (@IntersectMBO)
5:23 PM • Feb 12, 2024
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