2020-02-28 · timestamps by ADAtainment
UPD 02/28/2020
- The first Cardano development monthly update is out on YouTube, run by the product managers so the community hears directly from the people building each piece.
- Coronavirus is at a global tipping point, so the March Africa tour moves to May and travel gets cut back, though the London PwC workshop with the Cardano Foundation and Emurgo still happens.
- The Byron reboot lands this month with an entirely new codebase, the incentivized testnet reaches end of life at the end of March, and weekly Jormungandr and Daedalus releases continue.
- IOHK has hired its first CTO, Romain, splitting a role held together with the CEO job, and is preparing a grant strategy plus a commercially critical Cardano infrastructure programme.
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The first Cardano development monthly update is live on YouTube and Twitter, with each product manager giving a window into their work and taking community questions, because Cardano is an iceberg whose most interesting work sits below the surface.
Heads to London in early March 2020 for the PwC workshop with the Cardano Foundation and Emurgo to align commercial strategies ahead of the Shelley launch, while other events start getting cancelled.
The world sits at a coronavirus tipping point for the next four to six weeks, with no vaccine coming and containment the only option, and a real chance it takes hold in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia until the 2021 flu season.
The Africa trip moves tentatively from March to May, covering a South African conference run by a good friend plus Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia, and the extra time should make the trip better.
The Byron reboot arrives this upcoming month, the most significant consumer facing update in Cardano's history: completely new code, everything deserialized, and likely a new address format.
An announcement on the first Haskell Shelley testnet is coming to help people migrate their infrastructure, and the incentivized testnet reaches end of life at the end of March while staying online until Shelley mainnet launches.
Releases keep a steady cadence: Jormungandr every Wednesday, Daedalus and the wallet backend the following Monday, plus a vendor announcement for the Ledger update bringing cold staking and multi-sig.
Two initiatives start now: one single source of truth for all Cardano web assets built with the Cardano Foundation, and a full rewrite of the badly outdated Cardano documentation ahead of Shelley.
IOHK has brought on its first CTO, a Frenchman named Romain, splitting a role carried together with the CEO job for years, and he will join these presentations once he has settled in.
Funding for community driven projects is taking shape, with the foundation asked to talk publicly about its 2020 grant strategy and a coming statement on commercially critical Cardano infrastructure.
For anyone affected by coronavirus, hang in there and follow Dr John Campbell's daily YouTube updates plus the WHO and CDC sites; travel gets cut back, but a company spread over 20 countries working from home would not be substantially disrupted by a pandemic.