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Welcome back to ThinkGrowCryptoMedia! Your Cardano-biased, news media outlet for your blockchain-knowledge needs.
It's great to finally see some fun and light Cardano content! It's important to mix in laughter and keep things welcoming for everyone, not just the tech-savvy.
I like my staking the way I like my coffee, gm ☕️☀️
— Rick McCracken DIGI (@RichardMcCrackn)
6:05 AM • Apr 2, 2024
we’re cardano girls v2
#CardanoGirls
— LILY (@lilybrodi)
3:01 PM • Mar 29, 2024
Now, let’s get into the technicals 👇 😅
📊 Cardano Ecosystem Stats
🚀 Cardano Headlines
💸 Blockchain Headlines
📢 Cardano Community Corner
From Ordinals-chatter to marketing-brainstorming sessions, the Cardano Community never sleeps! Let’s check in on what the talk of the town has been this week.
We just integrated Ord .io to FluidTokens 🚨
As a Lender, you’re now able to verify any Ordinal before you provide liquidity.
DApp Interoperability FTW 🤝 twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— FluidTokens on Bitcoin (@FluidtokensXBT)
9:08 AM • Mar 26, 2024
0/ Many people asked me recently why does the alpha version of the EDI count pools as single entities when measuring decentralization and not pool members. To answer this question yourself, answer the following 3 questions
— Aggelos Kiayias (@sol3gga)
10:32 PM • Mar 27, 2024
Just looked at some charts of ADA against some other “alts” and with few exceptions the ADA/alt chart has been up and to the right. There’s some angst now because of an (imo massively orchestrated) pump by one peer and some dog coins doing their thing, but things look healthy imo
— ADA whale (@cardano_whale)
1:21 PM • Apr 1, 2024
The #CardanoGirls are here to stay! Their movement took the community by storm highlighting the impact of women in #crypto, specifically #Cardano. I sat down with @lilybrodi the mastermind behind the movement to talk about its impact and what comes next!
youtu.be/PUM4g7aM0aA— Dapp Central (@dapp_central)
5:19 PM • Apr 1, 2024
Example of a typical Fortune 500 level tech company budget compared to how the Cardano Treasury allocation would look. In this example the marketing budget would be 280 million Ada alone, up to 490 million including the sales budget. Enough to attract world class marketing. 😃
— Rick McCracken DIGI (@RichardMcCrackn)
2:26 PM • Mar 26, 2024
Over the past week, 1.7 billion ADA ($1.1b) have been consolidated in this wallet from others wallets allegedly owned by Binance, according to NFTs sent there.
pool.pm/addr1q8elqhkuv…
Anecdotally, the new wallet uses a stake component, so it could theoretically be staked to a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— pool.pm (@pool_pm)
8:41 PM • Mar 27, 2024
Hello #CardanoCommunity, we did it, now our Crypto Core is #opensource and you can make sure you're safe using Begin Wallet 💙
Like and RT it to your friends.
#Cardano#CNFT
— Begin Wallet (@BeginWallet)
2:52 PM • Mar 27, 2024
Mainnet release:
A few months ago, we open-sourced Discovery a decentralized price discovery protocol with the following key features:
1. Trustlessness: There are no permissioned agents at all in this system; and the correct behavior of all actors in the protocol is entirely… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— phil (@phil_uplc)
9:25 PM • Mar 28, 2024
Ever wanted to make a sparse merkle tree with log(n) insertion, deletion, member lookup, and non-member lookup?
Yeah me neither, but I ended up doing it anyway. So I made a little Aiken example. I plan to add offchain and make it a lib anyone can import. Now you can store… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— MicroProofs (@MicroProofs)
9:19 PM • Mar 31, 2024
Just played a round of mastermind against Juan from @modp_ using zk proofs on #Cardano in a #Hydra head: zkmastermind.modulo-p.io
While not production-ready, it shows that Hydra can be the development sandbox for zero knowledge proofs on eUTxO ledgers y'all have been waiting for!
— Sebastian Nagel (@ch1bo_)
10:06 AM • Apr 2, 2024
🖌 NFT of the Week with Noodz 🍜
Each week, we check in with our resident NFT connoisseur, Noodz. Let’s see what he’s got cookin’ for us…
This week, we’re giving some well-deserved spotlight to our favorite Cardano Sidechain: The Starch Chain!
Remember back when those V1 miners were the talk of the town? Well, V2’s are out and bringing even more fun to the magical Land of Potatoes.
The mint itself is done in a Dutch auction format. You can check out details here, or, just admire the V2 beauty on Pool here!
📢 Cardano Events
The next session of our X Spaces Marathon starts April 3rd 2 PM UTC🚨
Learn more about SmartPlaces and the LBE with our co-founders and co-CEOs Björn & Gianluca and @OfficialGeniusx.
Make sure to set your reminders with the link below👇
twitter.com/i/spaces/1OwGW…— SmartPlaces (@SmartPlacesX)
1:02 AM • Apr 3, 2024
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