Dear community members,

The next Project Catalyst town hall is coming up later today on Friday, December 11th at 6 PM GMT. Will we see you there? As a participant in Project Catalyst, you are an integral part of bringing on-chain governance to Cardano. Your contribution matters, so we hope you’ll jump in and make your voice heard.

During our last meeting we discussed the effect of token fluctuation on funding and gave an overview of our treasury system. We also gave the spotlight to several participants to hear their ideas for how to grow the Cardano ecosystem.

This town hall, we will be joined by guest speaker, Alan McSherry, who will give us a primer on metadata. We’ll be also sharing the latest news on voting, so make sure you don’t miss this one.
Register on Crowdcast and join us on Friday at 6 PM GMT.

Meanwhile, feel free to browse through Ideascale to get up to speed on what is happening with Project Catalyst.
So, we hope to see you on Friday. Be there to help us build the future of Cardano!
https://cardano.ideascale.com/

GAME ON: We are delighted to confirm that earlier last week, we successfully applied a change to the Cardano protocol, which will take effect on the 16th December, at the boundary of epoch 236 @ 21:54:44 UTC.

Cardano momentum continues with this protocol update (codename: 'Allegra') which delivers token locking to the platform, a core building block of both Voltaire governance and Goguen smart contract functionality

Read more here:
https://forum.cardano.org/t/goguen-momentum-continues-with-new-protocol-update-on-16th-december/43164

Every two weeks, project managers Dimitris & Volodymyr create a new Goguen development update video, charting the technical progress of the latest fortnightly sprint. There's quite a bit of detail here. But TL/DR = 👌
Here's the latest: https://youtu.be/nYONtPIFEPE

Last but not least...

Join Aparna Jue & Tim Harrison this Thursday for the last Cardano update of 2020. It's been quite the year, eh? Hear more on the Goguen rollout, some partner news, a look back at a remarkable year & a look forward to an awesome 2021.

Join us!👇👇👇
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/december-cardano

Dear Cardano Community,

There is another fake Cardano Official Group which is advertising a website and a competition giving away ada. There is no such thing!. Please adjust your settings as seen in the video below.

With kind regards,

Cardano Community Management Team.

A blogpost from the Cardano Foundation thanking the Cardano Effect. Read it here: https://forum.cardano.org/t/the-cardano-effect-thank-you-philippe-and-rick-for-your-contribution-to-cardano/43273/2

When is a hard fork NOT like a hard fork? When it's a Cardano upgrade using our Hard Fork Combinator tech! In less than 24 hrs, the new Goguen token locking update will deploy, bringing more essential building blocks for smart contract functionality. Seamlessly.

To read more about this remarkable and unique bit of technology - developed for and used with such success to deploy this summer's #Shelley upgrade – check out this piece. And expect plenty more deployments in 2021!

iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2020/05/07/combinator-makes-easy-work-of-shelley-hard-fork/

IOHK has recently announced they are delighted to be working together with #NervosNetwork on driving enhanced security, scalability and increased adoption. Join us on our monthly Cardano update show this Thursday to hear more about this important partnership, directly from the co-founder of Nervos Network and our own Romain Pellerin!

Join us for a new episode of the monthly #Cardano development show - our December end of year edition! 🎄
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/december-cardano/register

Dear Cardano Community,

There is another fake Cardano Official Group which is advertising a website and a competition giving away ada. There is no such thing!. Please adjust your settings as seen in the video below.

With kind regards,

Cardano Community Management Team.

Hello, Cardano community. Our blockchain is transforming and we are welcoming new stakeholders into our ecosystem. This is why Project Renovare, our brand reappraisal conducted earlier this year with McCann Dublin, reexamined Cardano’s visual appearance. Together, we solidified our vision for Cardano and aligned our visual elements with our new target audiences. The result was an ICAD-nominated brand refresh for our ecosystem. See some of our visual transformations for yourself in our Brand Animation video below: 

https://youtu.be/E7NbPnaM7ng

New Cardano Foundation Blog:

Cardano is built on Haskell because of its focus on high assurance code. Read our latest post to learn more about why we chose Haskell, what it's all about and where you can learn more about the programming language.

Read full blog here: https://bit.ly/2JWXv2H

IOHK has recently announced they are delighted to be working together with #NervosNetwork on driving enhanced security, scalability and increased adoption. Join us on our monthly Cardano update show this Thursday to hear more about this important partnership, directly from the co-founder of Nervos Network and our own Romain Pellerin!

Join us for a new episode of the monthly #Cardano development show - our December end of year edition! 🎄
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/december-cardano/register

NEW IOHK BLOG: Earlier today IOHK announced an exciting new partnership framework with Wolfram, covering collaborations in data, oracles, education & more.

Read more here:
https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2020/12/17/iohk-partners-with-wolfram-to-power-cardano/

Jon Woodard of Wolfram Blockchain Labs (WBL) joined December’s monthly Cardano product update earlier today, so definitely check it out in case you wish to hear more details about the partnership!
Watch it here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/december-cardano

More exciting updates! 🔥😎

During the monthly Cardano show earlier today, Cardano's devnets was highlighted. This is to create and drive interoperability & bring new Solidity development talent (and more) into the $ada ecosystem.

As we head towards 2021, we’re thrilled to officially announce that the first of these devnets, our new 2020 KEVM devnet, has just gone LIVE earlier tonight. We'll bring you more info tomorrow.

Meanwhile, for developers: all the core info you need is now available here: https://developers.cardano.org/en/virtual-machines/kevm/overview/

It’s still brand new, so expect some further optimizations over the holiday period. But step one has been completed – we’re live and powering up for an amazing 2021! 🚀

ICYMI: interoperability isn't just a buzzword with Cardano. With the launch of KEVM Devnet 140.000 Ethereum Smart Contracts will be compatible & deployable on Cardano; so you can build on Solidity, Glow or other EVM languages & deploy on Cardano.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3apWFGy

"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" ⚖️🔮🪞

In case you're interested in how Cardano is planning to use and to innovate with oracles, including everything else you ever needed to know about oracles, but were afraid to ask....here's a greatly informative whiteboard video from IOHK's Charles Hoskinson on what the future holds...

Latest whiteboard video:
https://youtu.be/M5k9VinN9rs

Latest IOHK Blog post on the partnership with Wolfram Alpha to help facilitate Cardano with oracle services:
https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2020/12/17/iohk-partners-with-wolfram-to-power-cardano/

Dear Cardano Community.

As some of you known the Ledger company has been hacked some time ago and the hackers acquired personal data from people who purchased their Ledgers there. Please check if your details are visible on https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Ledger and be extra vigilant for suspicious emails, phonecalls and letters.

With kind regards,

The Cardano Community Team and Ambassadors.

A lot has happened with blockchain in 2020, and that's equally true for Cardano. ICYMI, check out some of our recent news:

The KEVM Devnet demo: https://bit.ly/3apWFGy
A guide to Haskell: https://bit.ly/2JWXv2H
And the Cardano brand video: https://bit.ly/3lT0WEm

From everyone at the Cardano Foundation - we wish you, our Cardano Community, and your loved ones a very happy and healthy holiday. https://bit.ly/37HOtPY

Let's take a look back at 2020 and everything #Cardano, Cardano Foundation and the Cardano Community have achieved. It's been a big year for all of us - see all of the highlights in our video and Forum post:
https://bit.ly/2J7vp4k - how has Cardano impacted your year?