Learn Cardano Podcast

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Cardano is Moves Closer Towards Smart Contracts
With Alonzo White, the second stage of the smart contracts roll out for Cardano being successfully forked on Testnet, we are seeing more and more users being onboarded in a controlled and steady-state, with currently 100 people executing smart contracts on Testnet. This number should double by the time the Alonzo White phase is complete and the teams move on to the Alonzo Purple phase. This slow and steady approach ensures that there are no configuration issues or scalability issues of the network.

In one of Charles Hoskinson's latest live updates, he mentioned that there are a few things that are needed to get to the Alonzo hard fork event.

Fully operating node, which has occurred and,
a fully integrated wallet backed, which should be finished next week. The Daedalus wallet will be connected and hopefully be ready by September 10th.
Once these two factors are checked, then the final count down to a hard fork can start.

The remaining development required isn't related to the hard fork combinator event of the blockchain but relates to the infrastructure that developers will need to work and run their applications on the blockchain.

The Plutus Application Backend is the infrastructure for the developers to roll out smart contracts and decentralise applications easily.

Charles mentioned that the hard fork event could be late August or early September with a possible date of August 31st as the potential launch date.

Users will be able to run smart contracts at this point but the parallel development of the infrastructure for the Plutus Application Backend will most likely continue after this point to have a better environment for developers to build and deploy applications on. Some developers and teams already have tooling and code ready to deploy.

At the moment more and more developers are coming into the Alonzo environment and testing for bugs, reporting and improving the entire infrastructure. We'll see more iterative improvements along the way as more integration partners come on board.

The rollout for Alonzo is a lot easier and smoother than Shelly rollout.

August is crunch time for the teams working on Alonzo and the rollout of smart contracts. Good luck to the teams.

FUD Ethereum Maxis
Ethereum users defend their investments creating fear and doubt in the Cardano ecosystem.
Etherum is struggling to change to proof of stake will it happen? One day I'm sure.
With issues from lost keys to a stake pool to costs and difficulty of moving to PoS.

More Wallets Are Being Developed
Wallet integrations for dApps including Daedalus are in the works.

Semantic web 3 wallets will also be needed to power a lot of the decentralised finance applications that I've been reviewing over the last month.

Wallets like Nami wallet, which I've done a quick review on and the upcoming release of the new Yoroi wallet will enable users access to these apps to interact with the blockchain.

We also have a review on wallet setups for the upcoming dApp earn of Cardano.

If you want to learn more about some of the new upcoming dApps that are on the blockchain see our previous episodes:

Ep018
Ep017
Ep016
Ep015

US Infrastructure Bill with a Side of Crypto Tax
US congress looks at passing a new infrastructure bill, and also slip in a major crypto tax to raise an extra 30B in tax revenue in the country. Unsure where that number comes from.


Scams
Twitter Scam Bot https://twitter.com/cardanoPhishing

Watch my scam video on YouTube

Novellia Calls It a Day
In a recent post from the Novellia team, they announced that one of their core developers have decided to move on. As a result, they have been trying to meet the shortfall in resources by working more over time but unfortunately, it wasn't sustainable.

As a result, the team have decided to release all they had on open source Github repositories and call it a day.

I wish the team all the best and hopefully will see more from the founders in the future as they start working on other things. If you've delegated to their stake pool you will need to move your delegation to another pool.

Partnerships Galore
Occam + Emourgo
SundaeSwap & Liquid Finance
Meld Security Tools
PlayerMint + Retro Pool Holding a Rocket League Tournament

Pool Round-Up
Since Fed 22nd the pool has gone from 1000 ADA to 10.6M in 5 months. That's doing ok.

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The VyFi team join me on this episode to talk about their hedge fund and DeFi platform where they are combining the world of traditional finance with the world of decentralised finance and fintech.

The VyFi team have formed partnerships with AI developer, Propella.AI and have hired a team of PhD Haskell developers from Imagine.ai to build their platform.

Find out more about their project at https://cardanode.com.au

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A few news items this week: MinSwap annouces a Fair Initial Stake Offering and a new wallet is released called Nami Wallet for Cardano.

I break down all the concepts around decentralised exchanges, I explain what an automated market maker is, how decentralised exchanges differ from centralised exchanges, what liquidity pools are, impermanent loss, slippage, and how you can benefit from liquidity mining.

Full show notes at https://cardanode.com.au/ep016

I also chat with Chris from Mirqur, a mathematically driven decentralised exchange built on Cardano.

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I chat with Ken Olling from Meld who is building a decentralised finance bridge between the crypto world and the fiat currency banking world.

Meld is a project that is worth keeping an eye on. Being able to borrow against your crypto assets and to be able to enjoy the freedom of 'spending' fiat currency without needing to actually sell your crypto.

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Long Nguyen joins me on the podcast to talk about the Decentralised Exchange that he is working on called MinSwap. You'll able to trade various cryptocurrency pairs on the exchange without needing to give up your keys or the control of your assets.

You can find out more about Minswap.org

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In this podcast episode, I bring in Martina, my partner to talk about all the concepts around blockchain and Cardano that we have covered in the last 12 episodes of the podcast.

Martina is a long time holder of various cryptocurrencies and knows very little about Cardano, Proof of Stake, DeFi and other concepts that have evolved int he crypto space over the last 3 years.

Martina asks the questions and break down all the concepts until the penny drops and the concepts all sink in.

Leave a comment and let us know if you want Martina on the show more often to ask some of the questions that I would normally gloss over as I assume you all already know.

https://cardanode.com.au/ep013

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Will from Rektangular Studios joins me to talk about their development platform, Novellia. It is currently in Fund 4 of Project Catalyst which is almost ready to be voted on.

Will takes us through the project and what they're trying to achieve with their platform which will allow developers to build NFTs in-game and allow for NFT marketplaces for their games. This will create a residual income from their games allowing for more development.

Game development is hard with various marketplaces such as Apple and Google taking a large chunk of profits.

Listen to this episode to find out how Novellia will solve this problem using Cardano and blockchain as a solution to create new in-game economies.

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In this episode, I cover all the details in regards to fees when delegating to a pool, or making a transfer of ADA from wallet to wallet. I cover the details of these fees and where all the ADA goes.

I also am joined on the podcast with MermADA to talk about her experience with running a Cardano stake pool and mining Eth.

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I talk about the latest Cardano360 update all about the upcoming Cardano Hard Fork Alonzo. All of the smart contract features of Cardano are being rolled out over the next 90 days. The count down is on.

I also have Maria Carmo back on the podcast to continue our interview and talk about Lovelace Academy and the Project Catalyst from the view of a proposer going through the process.

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