2020-10-30 · timestamps by ADAtainment
UPD 10/30/2020
- Cardano360's October show covers Shelley delegation upgrades: multi-account wallets, hardware wallet support for delegators and stake pool operators, staking parameter changes, and progress toward full decentralization via the d parameter.
- The Goguen era is framed as Cardano's utility pillar, with detailed program dates for the native multi-asset token standard, an ERC-20 converter for partner tokens, and a December Hard Fork Combinator event introducing token locking.
- The Marlowe Playground officially launches with a live demo of its JavaScript, Blockly and simulator views, plus a new partnership with the ACTUS Foundation to standardize financial smart contracts.
- A new partnership with Mutual Knowledge Systems brings the Glow smart contract language to Cardano, aimed at portable, provably correct DApps across chains.
- Project Catalyst is showcased as the world's largest DAO by membership and treasury, and a Wyoming hackathon winner demos Liquid, a Marlowe-built DeFi lending protocol.
- The Cardano Foundation's new chief growth officer Ava is introduced to the community to close out the show.
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Open the October monthly show and preview the agenda: Shelley delegation updates, Goguen news, partner segments, a Wyoming hackathon guest, and a new Cardano Foundation team member.
Bring on Colin, Lando and Ben to cover the delegation program v2.0: multi-account delegation in one wallet, hardware wallet signing for delegators and stake pool certificates, and moving IOG's pools to private to grow community pools.
Introduces the new stake pool operator liaison role, focused on feedback loops, cutting noise, and an SPO digest email list.
The k and a0 staking parameters, the tradeoffs behind pool size caps and pledge rewards, and a community pledge proposal.
Update on the decentralization d parameter, pushing past the 50/50 mark toward full block production decentralization by March with a pause over the holidays.
Introduces the Daedalus 2.4.0 wallet release with Darko and Philip.
Demo Daedalus 2.4.0's new saturation indicator on stake pool tiles and the explanation tooltips for pool attributes.
Demo potential rewards estimation with the stake slider and the new sortable stake pool table view.
Update on hardware wallet development for delegators and stake pool operators, with Ledger and Trezor support and a Daedalus 3.0 major version bump.
Demo connecting a Trezor hardware wallet to Daedalus, restoring the wallet, and reviewing transaction history.
Demo sending an ADA transaction from Daedalus using a Trezor hardware wallet, verifying the address and fee on device.
Demo delegating to a stake pool from Daedalus using a hardware wallet, signing the certificate on the device.
Explains what the Goguen era means: utility as the theme, compared to Byron's foundation, Shelley's operations, and Voltaire's governance.
Breaks down Goguen's building blocks from transaction metadata and multi-signature transactions through native tokens and Plutus smart contracts to full consumer DApps.
The native multi-asset token standard and how Cardano's ledger-based tokens differ from Ethereum ERC-20, with an ERC-20 converter teaser.
A pre-production sandbox environment, nicknamed the mint, where partners can test migrating their tokens to Cardano before launch.
The ERC-20 converter tool and its three token migration methods: airdropping a clone, burn and mint, and lock and release.
Demo converting SingularityNET's AGI token from Ethereum to a native Cardano token via MetaMask, plus the partner signup flow for other tokens.
Teases upcoming guests: the Cardano Foundation's new chief growth officer, a Catalyst update, and a Wyoming hackathon winner.
The Hard Fork Combinator mechanism using the Byron to Shelley transition as the example of a live protocol version upgrade with no downtime.
Announces the next Hard Fork Combinator event, HFC 3.0, targeting mid-December and introducing token locking as a dress rehearsal for future upgrades.
Token locking mechanics for Voltaire voting and future smart contract use cases like a timed birthday gift.
Walks through the full Goguen program plan spanning native tokens, the Plutus foundation, the Plutus application framework, and Marlowe.
The JIRA-based sprint velocity process used to predict delivery dates across the node, wallet, and Marlowe teams.
Far ahead the team can now predict delivery dates, aiming for one to two confident months of visibility per program.
Details the native token technical dependencies (multi-currency node, wallet backend, token metadata server, explorer support) and targets a command-line pre-production release by late November and full native tokens by end of February.
Bring back the Marlowe team to announce today's rollout of the Marlowe Playground.
The Marlowe Playground's goal of making financial smart contracts on the blockchain adoptable, with JavaScript support alongside the Marlowe DSL.
Designing the Marlowe Playground for consumer-grade usability, contrasting it with clunky playgrounds on other chains.
Recaps Marlowe's three-pronged strategy: an open source developer tool, an enterprise product for financial institutions, and an end-user distribution platform for ready-made contracts.
Shares Marlowe milestones: playground alpha and beta by early 2021, then an on-chain version with formal verification by mid-2021.
Demo the Marlowe Playground: switching between JavaScript, Haskell, the visual Blockly view, and the simulator to write and compile contracts.
Demo stepping through a Marlowe contract simulation with Alice, Bob and Carol, then running static analysis to catch a failed payment.
Demo building a Marlowe contract from scratch in the visual Blockly editor using the contracts, actions and token menus.
Demo a Marlowe oracle proof of concept pulling a live ADA/USD exchange rate from Kraken into a contract.
Demo Marlowe's tutorial and Actus Labs, generating a loan contract with a premium from a set of financial terms.
Outlines Marlowe's next steps: a developer engagement channel, usability testing with financial experts, and the upcoming ACTUS integration.
Welcomes Willie Brammertz from the ACTUS Foundation and covers his financial engineering background behind the ACTUS standard.
Explains why Marlowe adopted the ACTUS standard as a benchmark taxonomy of financial contracts and a library of ready-made contracts.
Financial contracts as algorithms of cash flows over time, and how ACTUS relates to digital assets and smart contracts.
The FDIC selecting ACTUS to help modernize US financial reporting, and how fragmented data standards created the 2008-style mess that blockchain risks repeating without one.
Legacy banking systems fragmenting the same financial contract into thousands of incompatible implementations, and the risk of blockchain repeating that mess without a shared standard.
The Marlowe-ACTUS integration, the trade-off between simple guaranteed contracts and more dynamic ones, and a Wyoming hackathon team that extended ACTUS.
Introduces a new partnership with Mutual Knowledge Systems and their Glow smart contract language, co-founded by Fare (Francois-Rene Rideau).
Shares Fare's path from a Lisp and formal-methods background to founding MuKn and designing Glow as the ideal domain specific language for DApps.
Argues writing a DApp is uniquely hard: mistakes are irreversible, code is public to active adversaries, and existing tools aren't built to reason about mutually distrusting parties.
Explains why Fare bet on Cardano over Ethereum: a shared focus on building correct, durable foundations rather than shipping fast with holes.
Glow's blockchain-portable design, letting developers write an application once and let chains compete on their intrinsic value.
Shares that Glow will launch alongside Plutus, with an early demo possible on the show in the coming months.
Pivot from Goguen to the Voltaire pillar and tease a Project Catalyst update.
Shares Project Catalyst statistics showing it is now the world's largest DAO by membership, proposals and treasury, compared against Aragon and other top DAOs.
Outlines next steps for Catalyst voting: registering via a special Daedalus version or a CLI tool for stake pool operators, publishing assessments, and a new expert ballot recommendation experiment.
Introduces Dwayne, whose Liquid project won the Wyoming hackathon's Cardano challenge, building a decentralized lending market inspired by African mobile money markets.
Recounts Dwayne's path into Cardano through Charles Hoskinson's 2017 whiteboard video and his role advocating for the community before joining Project Catalyst.
Liquid's Marlowe-built lending and liquidation smart contracts from the hackathon, and the plan to port them to Plutus.
Announces Liquid's development partners App Inventiv and Twig to build a Plutus testnet MVP within six months.
Calls for community involvement in shaping Liquid's DAO structure and community-led delegation design.
Shouts out the other winners of the Wyoming hackathon.
Introduces Ava, the Cardano Foundation's new chief growth officer, and her path from financial services and DLT research to discovering Cardano through Charles Hoskinson's whiteboard presentation.
Outlines Ava's growth strategy of awareness, utility and adoption, and connecting IOG, the Foundation and the community as one extended team.
Closes with Ava's thank-you message to the community for its dedication and ambition.
Recaps the show's full agenda from Daedalus and hardware wallets to the d parameter, token locking, Goguen's rollout, and Project Catalyst.
Signs off and teases the November 2020 show with a festive theme after Thanksgiving.