Essential Cardano, IOG’s newest development release, detailed many new features and improvements for the Cardano ecosystem. The debut of the Marlowe smart contracts platform on the Cardano mainnet stands out as the most significant.
With Marlowe, developers of smart contracts for the Cardano blockchain will have an easier time with the development, testing, and release processes. It provides a set of open-source tools that are user-friendly for developers of all skill levels, allowing them to quickly and easily build, deploy, and monetize smart contracts. Cardano has reached a major milestone with the release of its platform, signalling their ability to run sophisticated dApps and compete with established smart contract systems.
The Marlowe team has been busy on a number of other tasks in addition to the mainnet release. To facilitate the creation and evaluation of Marlowe contracts, they have been establishing and releasing Marlowe Playground. The marlowe-loader and GetContract inquiry services have also been under development.
The group has also been checking the locations on Marlowe contracts and making sure the specs are accurate. This careful process guarantees that the platform’s deployed contracts are safe and effective.
As a key component of the Cardano ecosystem, the Plutus tools group has been finishing up the MintBurn indexer and Marconi EpochSDD for the sidechains initiative. They’ve also been trying to split the mocked node from plutus-pab and improve the restarting logic of Marconi indexers.
In the Conway ledger era, the ledger team has made strides, reworking certain data structures to accommodate DRep activities and creating and implementing new certifications.
The Hydra group got together for their regular monthly review session, where they prepared the May report for online release. They also made headway on the first full-cycle commit to the blockchain utilising ‘Option A’ for ordinary UTXOs, while still giving ‘Option B’ serious thought.
The technique created to sign generic data has been completely implemented in the current 2321.1 distribution issued by the Mithril team. They finished upgrading the Mithril network’s Cardano node to version 8.0.0 and restructuring the signer’s and aggregator’s state machines.
The Voltaire group keeps talking about CIP-1694 to create a basic governance structure, called the Minimum Viable Governance (MVG). The development of democratic administration in the Cardano ecosystem relies heavily on this structure.
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