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Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard discusses the future of Cardano with the Crypto Valley…
Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard discusses the future of Cardano with the Crypto Valley Association (Written by @ElliotHill of the Cardano Foundation) ZUG, 15 OCTOBER 2020. We are delighted to share that the Cardano Foundation’s newly appointed CEO, Frederik Gregaard, has recently outlined his vision for the future of Cardano during an exclusive interview with the Swiss-based Crypto Valley Association 2 . The interview, available to listen to below, is one of Frederik’s first public addresses as CEO of the Foundation, and we hope you are interested to listen to his perspectives on the wider blockchain industry, learn more about his motivations and passions, and explore where he will steer the Cardano Foundation and the Cardano blockchain now and into the future. But first, let’s discover what the Crypto Valley Association is, and discover its relationship to the Cardano Foundation and the wider blockchain industry. What is the Crypto Valley Association? Switzerlan...
Cardano Foundation Announces its Delegation Methodology
ZUG, 07 OCTOBER 2020 . The Cardano Foundation is pleased to share its delegation methodology in accordance with our transparency principles, and in line with our promise to communicate to the wider community during each part of the delegation process. As an independent Swiss foundation, it is the Cardano Foundation’s job to ensure that the Cardano blockchain achieves sufficient decentralization, to increase stake pool operator engagement and empower individual stake pools, and to support the staking and delegation infrastructure delivered through Shelley. Since the delivery of Shelley , the Cardano blockchain and its ecosystem partners have achieved more than 1,300 active stake pools, operated and maintained by dedicated and talented individual stake pool operators (SPOs) — who collectively, have enabled over 50% of the total ada (₳) circulating supply to be staked. This tremendous feat has made Cardano one of the most decentralized blockchains to date in an incredibly sh...
Who are the core focus communities for the Cardano Foundation?
(Written by Elliot Hill of the Cardano Foundation) If you have been following the news and updates from the Cardano Foundation recently, you will have noticed that our communications are increasing, our focus is shifting toward smart contracts and applications, and we are increasingly talking about enterprise and institutional use cases for Cardano. We thought this would be a good time to update our existing community on our core focus groups, especially the communities we will be increasingly working with and targeting in the coming months. Here, we are going to explore what makes a functional blockchain community, discover our key community participants, and explore how these communities will interact — now and long into the future. What makes a functional blockchain community? It was ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle who first alluded to a ‘whole being greater than the sum of its parts’, and this sentiment is still very much true for the Cardano ecosystem today...
Cointelegraph: The Cardano Foundation will preserve its independence, says new CEO
This post originally featured in Cointelegraph . The Cardano ( ADA ) ecosystem has a complex governance structure, not dissimilar from the way the U.S. democracy operates, with its built-in checks and balances. There are three main players: the Cardano Foundation, EMURGO and IOHK; according to the Foundation’s incoming CEO Frederik Gregaard , the governance will only get more complicated as more organizations join. He also said that he intends to maintain the Foundation’s independence from Cardano’s founder and IOHK CEO, Charles Hoskinson, who created this structure in the first place: “The Foundation law in Switzerland says that we need to be independent. That’s exactly why it’s interesting and why Charles chose to set it up like that, because he really, truly feels that the people who are going to protect the Cardano protocol for the generations to come, need to be independent.” The Foundation’s mission is the advancement of “the Cardano protocol.” It also retains a develop...
Cointelegraph: Cardano’s real competition is not who you’d expect, says new Cardano Foundation CEO
This post originally featured in Cointelegraph . Hint: It’s not a blockchain company. Frederik Gregaard, t he incoming CEO of the Cardano Foundation , shared with Cointelegraph his perspective on fintech’s competitive landscape and major technology trends. Discussing competition, Gregaard said that the protocol’s biggest opponents do not come from within the blockchain space: “I think the biggest competitor, it’s really the largest technology companies today around, the large tech platforms such as Google, Amazon, Tencent, Alibaba, those kind of players”. Gregaard believes that social-media-based big technology providers have morphed from supplying their customers with meaningful tools to essentially owning and manipulating their users. He went so far as to call them “an addictive, mental, manipulative technology environment — that is where social media is. It’s not just a tool waiting to be used, it has its own goals.” In his view, distributed technology represents the opp...
The Cardano Foundation donates to African graphic novel — Trust
The Cardano Foundation donates to African graphic novel — Trust (Written by @ElliotHill of the Cardano Foundation) The Cardano Foundation is proud to announce that it has donated US$2,500 in ada to the Trust graphic novel , a pan-African project designed to raise awareness of blockchain technology’s power to deliver financial sovereignty to underserved communities. The Trust graphic novel will teach youth in Africa and beyond the power of blockchain for financial independence, with an expected publication date in 2021. Trust is written and illustrated by Kenyan novelist and illustrator Chief Nyamweya, and Canadian tech entrepreneur and blockchain educator Anne Connelly. A distinguished graphic novelist, Chief Nyamweya previously authored the socially-impactful novel ‘Art of Unlearning’ in 2018, curated ‘Ink and Pixels — A history of graphic art in Kenya’ in 2015, and has now turned his attention to evangelizing blockchain throughout the African continent. Anne Connelly has wor...