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.

Dear Cardano Community.

We as the Cardano Ecosystem and their Ambassadors want to warn everybody for the so called pump and dump groups.

While it looks nice from the outside it actually is very dangerous for most of the people. For every person making profits there is at least one person who makes a huge loss.

Aside from that we honestly believe that Cardano is a project which doesn’t need pumps and dumps and if you are looking for quick returns and hype there are likely some other projects which are better for that.

People who advertise these groups will be removed without any prior warning.

Have you checked out the new delegation center in Daedalus 3.2.0 yet?

We've redesigned the delegation interface to show you when any delegation changes you make will kick in. All to make your pool choices easier, more transparent & more flexible 👉 https://bit.ly/3adVx71

The upcoming 'Mary' Hardfork combinator event will bring native token functionality to Cardano.

Catch up on the progress on the pre-production environment & what is coming next from Kevin Hammond: https://bit.ly/2YDpxDO

NEW DEV BLOG: Last week, we announced the new Plutus Playground.

Next up, Michael Peyton Jones analyzes the Plutus Tx compiler, exploring how it'll allow you to freely write Haskell & seamlessly use it in both on-chain & off-chain code.

Read it here: https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/02/02/plutus-tx-compiling-haskell-into-plutus-core/

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: IOHK is delighted to report that since a few hours ago, the Cardano Testnet is officially in the multi-asset era.

At 20:20:16 UTC, we successfully forked & applied the Goguen 'Mary' native token upgrade to the Testnet environment.

The NEXT stop is mainnet, by the end of the month!👍

Want to learn more and play around a bit? Visit:
https://developers.cardano.org/en/development-environments/native-tokens/native-tokens/

Hello, Cardano Community! Today's blog from Cardano Foundation is a must-read regarding central bank digital currencies, CBDCs. Find out more on building the world's new reserve currency here.
https://bit.ly/3pRhoYI

Cardano Foundation is actively seeking an experienced Head of Marketing.
Are you a creative and analytical marketing leader who lives and breathes the cutting edge of growth marketing, with a strong emphasis on branding?

Apply now https://bit.ly/36I2kVu

NEW IOHK BLOG: Yesterday Cardano's development arm, IOHK, successfully deployed the Mary update to the Cardano public testnet, bringing us one step closer to becoming a multi-asset smart contract platform. As previously communicated, the mainnet launch planned by the end of the month. 💪

Here’s more from IOHK's Tim about the road to Mary on mainnet & what’s next 👇
https://bit.ly/36EZXTC