UPCOMING: Project Catalyst Town Hall on Wednesday the 28th of October at 6:00 PM UTC.

Project Catalyst continues to move forward with the help of our community.
That’s why we want everyone to join us for our next town hall. Our last town hall focused on clarifying expectations of the review phase which is closing this Wednesday. During this next meeting, we’re excited to announce the details of a bonus challenge for Catalyst participants.

The next town hall happens Wednesday the 28th of October at 6:00 PM UTC. To take part, just join our Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/project-catalyst-weekly-4

Meanwhile, feel free to browse through our Ideascale innovation platform to familiarize yourself with everything that is happening with Project Catalyst: We hope to see you on Wednesday. Be there to help us continue building the future of Cardano.

UPCOMING: Cardano's Monthly Product Update for October 2020

On last month’s Cardano product show, we touched upon native tokens, how they compare to ERC-20, and discussed some use cases. This Thursday, we’ll have more details from the product manager, Vukasin.

Be sure to register & join us!

http://bit.ly/2TmsiqJ

Welcome to the 24th journal of our “Ambassador Stories” series: Eystein & Reng, Content Creator and Meetup Organizer!

Following last week's story, here are some new stories from our recently joined ambassadors! 🤩

You’ll be able to enjoy the various, unique stories of our Cardano Community Ambassadors: what motivated, and still motivates them, to be part of this amazing and wonderful community?

The Cardano Community Team would also like to thank the Ambassadors for all their continued efforts and participation in sharing their stories with us! 💪

Please do hit that like button, share and give them a warm welcome! ✨

https://forum.cardano.org/t/ambassador-stories-journal-24-eystein-reng/41669

OUT NOW: New Daedalus 2.4.0 for continues to improve the Cardano delegation user experience. It brings a number of new features, including a saturation indicator for stake pools, to show how close to saturation a pool is getting Cardano.

It also adds a potential rewards estimation, based on the amount of stake you intend to delegate. Plus there's a new table view for easier stake pool comparison.

To help you better understand the stake pool key metrics, we've also added tooltips with explanations. Here's a video walkthrough from Darko, highlighting the key features: https://youtu.be/USL8rI9LmsM

Darko and Filip will also join us on tomorrow's monthly Cardano show to talk more about the new release and what's next, so be sure to tune in. And remember, download #Daedalus ONLY from the official Daedalus site: https://daedaluswallet.io/en/download/

⚠️Basic scam/fraud awareness⚠️

🛑If you get approached by someone over DM and look official, they are NOT. They are impersonating someone and you may be getting scammed.

🛑There are no deadlines with sending/redeeming/claiming your ada. Your ada is always safe as long as you know the seed words to your wallet.

🛑Never put your seed words into a website, no matter how official it looks.

🛑Giveaways are often a SCAM!

🛑We will never ask you to send ada to us or to a wallet you do not own. Don't do it.

🛑Never tell anyone your seed words (mnemonics).

🛑 There is no online Live Chat Support website.

✅Always STOP and double check before making any decisions and/or ask an official on the public platform.

⛔️Transactions are NOT reversible⛔️

More info: https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-stay-safe-content-updated/28037

You may have heard Eva Oberholzer joined us earlier this month as Head of Growth, but did you know she's a global nomad in her self-converted camper van?

Learn more about Eva and her vision for #Cardano in her own words.

https://bit.ly/2Jg21sh

Here's a few exciting updates 🤩

Watch the Cardano monthly product update show, to learn more to hear dates for the native asset rollout and more:
> https://www.crowdcast.io/e/october-montly-show

As per IOHK's Twitter updates, here’s the program and full overview for the Goguen rollout stages, showing every component and workstreams in one place. It’s as complex as it is fully featured. But IOHK are confident in the plan. And over the next 2 quarters, they’ll be rolling this out in 2-week sprints, locking in dates as we advance:
https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1321878015387832323

A NEW BLOG: With more details about the Goguen rollout. Cardano is evolving into a utility platform for partnerships, enterprise & applications. Integration of metadata – information about the transaction being processed – is a key first step.
And it's available now:
> https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2020/10/29/bringing-new-value-and-utility-to-the-cardano-blockchain/

And last but not least, here are also some additional brief comments from Charles Hoskinson on the Goguen rollout update:

> https://youtu.be/l5wADba8kCw

Hello everyone. There is a scammer active trying to act like “Cardano Official News” and sending malicious files. Please do not accept them and block the account. Do you have any questions? Please contact any moderator and/or Ambassador in the public channels and do not accept any DM’s.

ICYMI: Adding metadata to transactions prepares #Cardano to become part of the #DeFi revolution.

Read all the details here:
iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2020/10/29/bringing-new-value-and-utility-to-the-cardano-blockchain/

Charles Hoskinson Brief Comments on Goguen - 29/10/2020
(Written by Eric Czuleger, IOHK)

On October 29th Charles Hoskinson sat down to give a brief update on Goguen after the monthly product update.

October update

IOHK recently had the October product update and we hope that it has given everyone a chance to see how complex Cardano actually is. Making this all work together is necessary and it is a commercial reality of working as a smart contract platform in the crypto space. We also hope that it gives our followers an idea of how many plates are currently spinning with IOHK.

Read and watch it here: https://forum.cardano.org/t/charles-hoskinson-brief-comments-on-goguen-29-10-2020/41790

Your opinion is appreciated. Please join the discussion around SPO advertising on the Cardano Foundation operated channels here: https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-media-guidelines-on-official-channels-your-input-is-desired/41798

We're thrilled to announce that EMURGO's Yoroi Wallet Chrome Extension has passed 50,000 active users! 🙌 This is one of many stats that show how much #Yoroi is growing.

We are so grateful to our community and happy to see our product empower so many. ♥️

NEW IOHK BLOG: Metadata 'tells the story' of a transaction. In a follow-up to last week's post, solutions architect Alan McSherry talks more about this integral step for #Cardano’s evolution into a multi-functional smart contract platform #Goguen.

Read the full blog post by Alan here:
https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2020/11/03/getting-to-grips-with-metadata-on-cardano/

Dear Community Members,

IOHK's Project Catalyst's next town hall is on the way and we would love to see you there. In our last meeting, we focused on key learnings from Fund2 assessments. We also responded to some feedback from our community members. The next meeting will push us closer to the Fund2 vote and give us an opportunity to hear directly from you. We hope you’ll join us.

The next town hall will take place on, Wednesday 4th November at 6:00 PM UTC.

To take part, just join our Crowdcast:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/project-catalyst-weekly-5

Meanwhile, feel free to browse through Ideascale to familiarize yourself with everything that is happening with Project Catalyst.

So, we hope to see you on Wednesday. Be there to help us build the future of Cardano.
Thanks,
The IOHK Project Catalyst team

Hey all!

Here are several Haskell and Marlowe related updates from IOHK:

#Haskell provides the bedrock for #Cardano development. So we're excited about some important new developments to be shared by Simon Peyton Jones in his opening keynote at Haskell eXchange 2020, earlier today at 12:00 UTC. Free to watch here: https://youtu.be/MEmRarBL9kw

IOHK also recently launched the #Marlowe Alpha program, kicking into high gear.
Watch the demo by Simon Thompson ⬇️ & check out a brand new Playground including a suite of tools & docs for building ACTUS-approved financial smart contracts: https://alpha.marlowe.iohkdev.io/#/
Marlowe Alpha Demo starts here: https://youtu.be/jWyBjjgdWWU?t=4154

Last but not least, another NEW BLOG:
IOHK believes in the power of functional programming, open-source and open governance. So they’re sponsoring the Haskell Foundation, a brand new independent non-profit dedicated to broadening the adoption of the Haskell language. Read the full blog here: https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2020/11/04/iohk-sponsors-new-haskell-foundation/

NEW IOHK BLOG: Parameters and decentralization - the way ahead

On December 6th, we’ll be changing the k-parameter as part of our ongoing commitment to #Cardano decentralization, opening up further opportunities for stake pool growth.

As an ada delegator or SPO, here’s what you need to know:

https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2020/11/05/parameters-and-decentralization-the-way-ahead/

ICYMI:
Yesterday, IOHK and SingularityNET talked #Cardano at SingularityNET's 'The Decentralized OS' event. Interested about how blockchain and AI will help shape the future of #Decentralized #Governance, #Health and #Finance?

Watch Ben Goertzel and Charles Hoskinson talk about it here: https://youtu.be/LPBZ7eSu5h0

ICYMI 2:
In case you're also interested in learning and knowing more about the previous conversation Ben and Charles had on the Cardano <> SingularityNET collaboration, please watch the interview here: https://youtu.be/W3O5F_CCT8c

Proof of steak—how BeefChain uses Cardano to empower ranchers

Read our latest post to learn how Wyoming is changing the steaks by delivering beef on the blockchain.Built on Cardano, Beefchain provides customers accurate information on cattle from honest farmers & highlights the need for immutable data.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3pd1rvL