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The TGCm Weekly RunUp
November 8, 2023
Welcome back to ThinkGrowCryptoMedia! Your Cardano-biased, news media outlet for your blockchain-knowledge needs.
It’s been a whirlwind of a week with the Cardano Summit 2023 making waves!
If you’ve missed out, worry not - I’ve gathered all the highlights (I think 😅) to share them with you.
Here are recaps of Day 1 & Day 2.
💫 Experience the Summit all over again!
Catch all of the main stage action and the Gala Awards Dinner highlights from the #CardanoSummit2023.
Available to view on demand on:
📲 Cardano Summit App.
💻 Cardano Summit Website.
🎥 Cardano Foundation YouTube.— Cardano Foundation (@Cardano_CF)
11:00 AM • Nov 7, 2023
Let’s get into it 👇
📊 Cardano Ecosystem Stats

🚀 Cardano Headlines
Introducing the First Tokenized Diamond on the Cardano Blockchain
Project Catalyst Fund11: Cardano Embraces Positive Voting, Drops Downvotes
Mithril Protocol Enhances Cardano's Sync and Security Without Sacrificing Speed
Decentralization Defined: EDI Team's New Tool to Measure Blockchain Consensus Layers
💸 Blockchain Headlines
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried convicted of defrauding cryptocurrency customers
U.S. Senator introduces bill to uphold self-custody rights for cryptocurrency owners
Near Foundation Joins Celestia in Race to Provide 'Data Availability' for Ethereum Rollups
West Texas man sentenced for operating $9M false cryptocurrency business
📢 Cardano Community Corner
From….. to…….., the Cardano Community never sleeps! Let’s check in on what the talk of the town has been this week.
Here's my podcast with @IOHK_Charles about @MidnightNtwrk, and #Cardano governance.
Link below 👇
— big pey (@bigpeyYT)
6:53 PM • Nov 4, 2023
3 pillars for #Cardano Past, Present and Future:
1. #Scaling: Hydra, BLS, Input Endorsers, Fast finality etc.;
2. #Governance: 1694, Intersect, Institutions, Self amendement etc.;
3. #Interoperability: sidechains and NiPoPoWs papers, Mamba, IELE and KEVM experiments.Our way… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Romain Pellerin (@rom1_pellerin)
9:43 AM • Nov 3, 2023
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— Optim Finance (@OptimFi)
3:31 PM • Nov 3, 2023
Midnight will be a partner chain for Cardano.
#Midnight will be completely independent of Cardano, i.e. it will have its own consensus and ledger.
New chains can be created through the #Cardano PartnerChain Framework.
Read the article:
cexplorer.io/article/midnig…— Cardano YODA (@JaromirTesar)
3:08 PM • Nov 8, 2023
Security is everything! 🔐smart contracts are no different!
We would love to announce our smart contract audit with @SundaeSwap 🍧+🐍 = 🦾
@Quantumplation@Plutus_Plumbus@mehen_cto
The Sundae Labs team is incredible.
#Cardano $USDM #Mehen— Mehen Stablecoin | $USDM (@MehenOfficial)
7:29 PM • Nov 7, 2023
fun visual perspective on one round of catalyst (50M) versus how much is currently sitting in the Cardano treasury (1.4B)
live stats: cexplorer.io/pot
50 million is 3.57143% of 1.4 billion
— NOODZ 🍜 The Alexandria Project (@CardanoNoodz)
12:07 PM • Nov 8, 2023
The zkFold Symbolic demo is out!
Check out our code examples, or create and compile your own.
github.com/zkFold/zkfold-…
#buildinpublic#CARDANO#CardanoCommunity
— zkFold (@zkFold)
11:36 AM • Nov 2, 2023
🌟 We're thrilled to unveil the LedgerFlow mainnet preview straight from the #CardanoSummit2023 stage, courtesy of @NaVi_GaT0R
Dive into the future of transactions on @Cardano with us – a live experience is on the horizon!
Stay tuned and get ready to enjoy it. 🚀#LedgerFlow… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Iagon 🧑🚀💽 (@IagonOfficial)
1:03 PM • Nov 4, 2023
1/Cardano has a vibrant ecosystem but some news goes unreported
In #LatestOnCardano, I highlight news, minor and major. L1+L2 upgrades, stats, dapps, SPO, NFT, governance, community and more
All things Cardano. Irregular but hopefully frequent. Here’s #26 in the series. DYOR
— ADA whale (@cardano_whale)
6:35 AM • Nov 5, 2023
🖌 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…
In honor of the global event that is the one-and-only Cardano Summit, we’re featuring the official Cardano Summit NFTs from Empowa!
(If you’re not familiar, check them out! They’re a company based in Africa that’s revolutionizing home financing).
You can check out the NFTs here!
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