Upcoming Crowdcast: "Building on Cardano: Metadata workshop and Q&A session"

With the ongoing rollout of Goguen, Cardano is evolving into a full-featured smart contract platform. Transaction metadata is deployed already, bringing early utility and use cases.

Join IOHK & Cardano Foundation this Monday to find out how to get building!

Register here: https://crowdcast.io/e/metadata

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💡Proposal submission is now open for Project Catalyst Fund 3💡

Got an idea that will enhance the Cardano ecosystem? Let the Catalyst community know and propose!

Learn how to participate & submit your proposal for funding in this round & watch the full video.

Join us on Monday & hear more about the practical implementation of transaction metadata on #Cardano, presented by IOHK and the Cardano Foundation. Understand the technology, see the potential & learn more about real use cases. And build your own!

Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/metadata/register

Here's a couple interesting updates and information from the Cardano Ecosystem.

Hear our Chief Growth Officer, Eva Oberholzer, provide an overview of Cardano in the new year on the latest podcast with James Kever - Cardano Ambassador - focusing on governance and smartcontracts. ⛓📑⚖️Check it out: https://youtu.be/kh837j3W6FI?t=62.

Also, yesterday Jeremy Firster and Mel McCann did a crowdcast with InputOutputHK discussing metadata on Cardano. 💾 🖥
Watch it here: https://crowdcast.io/e/metadata (or here on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrN3ETZ3fRM)

Lastly, Project Catalyst is our ongoing experiment in decentralized innovation & we're open for another new round of ideas. If you have a proposal, don’t miss out on the opportunity to share it with the Cardano community and get potential funding! 💸💡🔥🚀

Submissions are open until Wednesday January 20th for Funding Round 3: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/index

Metadata could be the first significant stride towards making Cardano the financial and social operating system of the future.

How? Learn more in this week's post: https://bit.ly/38Z7k9O

Every two weeks, project managers Dimitris & Volodymyr share a technical development update, tracking Cardano Goguen delivery against each sprint.

Here's their very latest despatch from the front: https://bit.ly/3o4uekv

(TL/DR: 💪-👍)

Hey all!

Interested to join our vibrant and active Cardano community on Telegram?
Here is a list of our official Telegram groups!

Check them out by clicking the group links below:

📣 @CardanoAnnouncements
⭐️ @Cardano
💕 @CardanoCommunityTechSupport
💻 @CardanoDevelopersOfficial
🏢 @CardanoGovernanceOfficial
🛠 @CardanoStakePoolWorkgroup
🚀 @CardanoTradingOfficial
🚩 @CardanoReportToAdmin
🇯🇵 @CardanoJapanOfficial
🇯🇵 @CardanoJapanTrading
🇨🇳 @CardanoChinaOfficial
🇰🇷 @CardanoKoreaOfficial
🇰🇷 @CardanoKoreaTrading
🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇨🇭🇱🇮 @CardanoGermanOfficial
🇳🇱🇧🇪 NL/BE: @CardanoDutchOfficial
🇺🇸🇨🇦 @CardanoNorthAmericaOfficial
🇪🇸 @CardanoSpanishOfficial
🇵🇹 @CardanoPortugueseOfficial
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🔬EMURGO Official Announcements: @emurgo
🧪Project Catalyst: @ProjectCatalystChat (Chatroom) & @cardanocatalyst (announcements)

***(If you are added to a similar looking channel with logo or name, regard them as fake. Officials will not DM you first, beware of scammers and impersonators!) ***

Get ready for the first Cardano Monthly show: January edition!

Join us this Thursday 28th for our monthly update on all things Cardano with Aparna Jue and Tim Harrison!

Register today: https://bit.ly/366fPhE

OUT NOW: Introducing the new Plutus Playground, an environment for writing and testing smart contracts before deploying to Cardano when Plutus hits mainnet later this year. 🖥⛓

Today, as we continue the Goguen rollout, we’re announcing new dev tools & refreshed UI. 🔥
Quick video intro here: https://twitter.com/i/status/1353767674111795201

We're calling on devs to get involved and help us finalize the playground as we head closer to primetime. To find out more, access the links, and also register your interest for our developer programs, you'll find all you need right here:

https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/01/25/introducing-the-new-plutus-playground/

OUT NOW: Daedalus 3.2.0 for Cardano mainnet.

Following last week’s successful Flight release, this new version includes a redesigned Delegation center & resolves the issue of sending ada to legacy Byron addresses with Ledger hardware wallet devices.

Current Daedalus users will soon receive an update alert direct from Daedalus. If you want to give it a spin for the first time, as always, we remind you to download Daedalus only from the official website!

https://daedaluswallet.io/en/download/

Cardano could soon begin to have a profound impact on today’s DeFi landscape.
Check out our latest blog post to learn how.

https://bit.ly/2NuXIeC

ICYMI: Goertzel vs. Hoskinson Part II

In this exclusive fireside chat, Charles & Ben (from SingularityNET) discuss decentralized social media, share a vision for the future and discuss a model for a new Ai-powered commons.

Join Ben and Charles discussing libertarianism, artificial intelligence, and what improvements will result from SingularityNET moving to Cardano.

Watch it here: https://youtu.be/TNWJGGc7ESI

Check out the first Cardano monthly update of 2021! 🔥📣

Watch Tim Harrison & Aparna Jue as they shared all the latest on all things Cardano, with fresh news, product deep dives, Cardano Foundation team interviews & the latest Goguen development progress.

Video content:
0:00 Welcome to 2021
1:33 Plutus Playground with Vukasin Vukoje.
7:41 Vukasin Vukoje discusses native tokens, the pre-production environment while giving us an update on our ERC-20 work.
10:16 ERC-20 converter demonstration with Vukasin Vukoje
12:34 Timeline update with Aparna Jue.
16:11 The upcoming Mary HFC event with Kevin Hammond.
27:27 Lessons learned from the devnets with community statistics.
32:02 Moving Daedalus forward with the voice of our community leading the way.
43:20 EMURGO’s Nico Arqueros and Sebastien Guillemot look back at a year of Yoroi.
53:47 Pushing Project Catalyst forward with Dor Garbash.
59:20 Meeting the winning proposers of Fund2 on Project Catalyst.
1:06:01 Mark Griffin and Dynal Patel with an update on Atala PRISM and a demo.
18:18:08 Illuminating our commercial vision and illuminating the market with IOHK’s Jerry Fragiskatos and Colin Edwards.
1:41:35 The Cardano Foundation’s mission with Chief Growth Officer, Eva Oberholzer.
1:49:53 Hey David!
1:52:31 Closing comments and a look to the future.

Watch the latest product update here: 👉 https://youtu.be/e_C90pUrfKs

- List of Links from the show -
👇👇👇👇

Plutus section:
Introducing new Plutus Playground

Plutus Playground - Video Tutorial: Compiling and testing a Plutus App

Check out the refreshed Plutus Playground

For additional support and resources sign up here

Native tokens section:
Read all about the native tokens on Cardano

Cardano Native token deep dive

Sign up for our devnets program: Link 1 and Link 2

Learn more about Cardano’s Devnets

EMURGO section:
Yoroi Wallet

Watch a “Designing a Stablecoin Protocol” presentation by Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo

Catalyst section:
Join Project catalyst Fund 3

More on Project Catalyst Fund2 winning proposals

Atala section:
Learn more about Atala PRISM & Full Demo of Atala PRISM

Commercial section:
ICYMI: IOHK partners with Wolfram to power Cardano

Cardano Foundation section:
More on metadata

Workshop on Metadata

David Orr:
Check out David’s latest video on Plutus Playground

Closing remarks:
Ergo Summit

Atala PRISM - full demo

Ben Goertzel & Charles Hoskinson discussion on decentralized social media

SOFTWARE UPDATE: IOHK are delighted to report that they have successfully submitted the 'Mary' HFC update proposal for the Cardano Public Testnet, to take effect February 3rd 20:20:16 UTC. Mainnet update still proceeding to plan. 🔥🧱

NEW VIDEO: How Do You Explain The Mission Of Cardano? We live in a world of two systems; one for the few and another for the many. Cardano exists to push power to the edges, an enabling force for progress and positive change. For everyone.

Watch it here: https://youtu.be/l_Nv0-PVrnM

For a great number of Cardano Community members it was the "Cardano Whiteboard Video" that started it all...

On October 27th 2017 Charles Hoskinson posted a, now-legendary, whiteboard walkthrough of his vision for Cardano.

How did you first come to know about Cardano?
What got you excited?
Why did you join the Cardano Community?

We'd love to know! Let us know in the thread below:
https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1355635902102564866

(If you haven't already..) watch the legendary whiteboard video here: https://youtu.be/Ja9D0kpksxw

Dear Cardano Community. There is a new channel called "Cardano English" which is inviting and/or adding people. Please note that this channel is not affiliated to us and we ask everyone to stay vigilant as things like this often end up being scams.