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Updated April 16, 2026 · 12:45 PM UTC

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Technology

Cardano’s Vasil upgrade will happen on Sept. 22

Input Output revealed that it has gotten assurance from stake pool operators (SPOs) and Dapp communities that they would be ready for the Vasil upgrade by Sept. 22.

4 years ago

People

Buterin makes the case for alternative stablecoin technology in high inflation environment

Vitalik Buterin says the industry should develop alternatives to fiat linked stablecoins, naming consumer price linked tokens as a viable contender.

4 years ago

Technology

Helium developers propose migration to Solana

Helium community members are bashing the Solana migration idea, citing the network outages and other issues.

4 years ago

Gaming

Study discovers 40% of web3 gaming accounts are bots using on-chain data

Jigger has shown that blockchain can help solve the problem of online bots that plagues so many games.

4 years ago

Web3

EMURGO, AID:Tech team up to bring Web3 on-chain reputation to Cardano

AID:Tech plans to develop digital identity solutions for volunteers to aid positive social impact via the Cardano chain.

4 years ago

Technology

Cardano developers working to bring Vasil hard fork to mainnet – IOHK latest update

IOHK said no serious bugs or hard fork blockers are left, and only minor bugs in Sev4 or Sev5 remain outstanding in the backlog.

4 years ago

Technology

Crypto-native messaging platform Comm raises $5M in seed funding

Startups turn towards developing crypto-native messaging platforms as first of their kind, Comm, raises $5 million in a seed funding round led by CoinFund

4 years ago

Technology

Professor re-uploads Tornado Cash code to GitHub for research purposes

A professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University re-uploaded Tornado Cash and Tornado Nova source codes to GitHub, saying he has been using the code for teaching purposes.

4 years ago

People

Hoskinson shuts down talk of ‘hush-hush culture’ over stalled Vasil upgrade

Developer Sebastien Guillemot tweeted that engineers working on Cardano are muzzled from speaking about issues — an allegation Charles Hoskinson dismissed.

4 years ago