Cardano360 January 2023

Every month, Cardano360 brings you the latest news and feature content from across the Cardano ecosystem.

It’s the beginning of a new year and the team at IOG has been working behind the scenes on a number of exciting projects. With more to share in the coming weeks, we’re kicking off our first show of 2023 with a number of updates from the projects building out this incredible ecosystem. We’re joined by EMURGO to talk about the launch of their USDA stablecoin slated for this year, and Marvin Bertin, CSO and co-founder of Genius Yield, and COO of Paribus Wilson Davis stop by for an update.

And we’ve taken a closer look at the Edinburgh Decentralization Index announced at our IO ScotFest event late last year. Professor Aggelos Kiayias and some of the team share more on some of the key innovations this critical research initiative intends to bring to the wider blockchain industry. We’ve also shared a short clip from a long-form conversation between Charles Hoskinson and Aggelos where they touch on some of the key moments from the last six years of IOG’s research, and the importance of first principles when building for the future.

For all the latest news and updates, be sure to follow IOG on Twitter!   / inputoutputhk  

Timestamps:
00:00:00 Welcome to Cardano360 January edition
00:01:10 Vineeth Bhuvanagiri from EMURGO provides an overview of their recently announced initiative, the Anzens Suite and the USDA stablecoin
00:12:10 More on the Edinburgh Decentralization Index and its role in establishing standards for the industry, featuring Professor Aggelos Kiayias, Dr. Daniel Woods, and Christina Ovezik
00:18:07 A conversation on first principles between Professor Aggelos Kiayias and IOG CEO Charles Hoskinson
00:21:05 #BuildingonCardano with insights from IOG technical community manager, Anita Jovic, and Genius Yield CSO, Marvin Bertin
00:25:51 Matthew Capps, IOG community manager, interviews Paribus COO Wilson Davis
00:33:50 A reminder of some ofthe latest announcements from IOG, including the Essential Cardano Guide to the Ecosystem, the new sidechains toolkit and more

Links:
Watch the full video about the Edinburgh Decentralization Index:    • Introducing the Edinburgh Decentraliz...  
And ‘First Principles: Research for the Future’ with Charles and Aggelos:    • First Principles: Research for the Fu...  
Check out IOG’s Research Library: https://iohk.io/en/research/
For all of the great presentations from ScotFest, checkout our playlist:
   • IO Scotfest: The age of Voltaire  

For everything EMURGO, checkout their website: https://emurgo.io/
Join the USDA waitlist on the Anzens website: https://www.anzens.com/

Follow along with Genius Yield’s progress here: https://www.geniusyield.co/ https://www.genius-x.co/
Learn more about Paribus’ work: https://paribus.io/
Are you building on Cardano and interested in being featured on Cardano 360? Fill in this form here: https://input-output.typeform.com/to/...

Dive into our growing community in the Essential Cardano Guide to the Ecosystem: https://services.iohk.io/guide-to-the...

Join the Lace email list to get involved with the open community beta, and be the first to know when it launches on Cardano mainnet: http://lace.io/
Join the chat over on our Discord:   / discord  

Learn more about the sidechain toolkit: https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2023/01...
Or check out the toolkit documentation: https://docs.cardano.org/cardano-side...

Read more about the work on Hydra for auctions
https://www.essentialcardano.io/artic...

More on the SECP cryptographic primitives upgrade: https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2023/01...