Welcome to another episode of Cardano360, your essential guide to the latest news from across the ecosystem. In that spirit, we’ve rebranded the show to become an arm of Essential Cardano, a channel for promoting community-generated content, while championing the innovators scaling the ecosystem for continued adoption.

In our February edition of Essential Cardano360, we’re delighted to bring you the latest content, enriched with insights and updates from various team members and ecosystem guests.

In this edition, we invite you to learn more about the recent Valentine upgrade and its implications for developers building on Cardano, as well as the latest on Voltaire, and its core pillars.

The Catalyst team stops by with an exclusive look into the highly anticipated upcoming Fund10 and a Special Voting Event. We’ll also hear from Alex, IO Product Manager, for a progress update on Lace.

As always, we will keep you informed on the latest developments in the space, as we take a closer look at some of the projects #BuildingonCardano. Join Matthew & Anita from the community team as they interview MELD, DCSpark, and ImperatorLang to gain a deeper understanding of their impressive contributions to the Cardano ecosystem.

Stay up to date with all the latest news and updates from IOG by following us on Twitter at   / inputoutputhk  

Timestamps:

00:00:00 Welcome to Essential Cardano360 February Edition
00:00:37 Cardano development update - Valentine upgrade & Voltaire
00:06:55 Update from the Project Catalyst team - Special Voting Event & Fund 10
00:11:40 Alex Apeldoorn, IO product manager, brings us the latest on the Lace wallet
00:15:43 #BuildingOnCardano: Interviews with community projects MELD, ImperatorLang and DCSpark
00:31:39 A snippet from an interview with Shahaf Bar Geffen, CEO of COTI, on the Djed stablecoin launch
00:32:59 In case you missed it: Plutus Pioneer Program, Sidechains & more.

Useful links:

👉A proposal for entering the Voltaire phase (CIP-1694)
https://github.com/cardano-foundation...
👉 Join the governance conversation on Cardano forum: https://forum.cardano.org/c/governanc...
👉 Express your interest in joining the members based organization: https://cardanombo.org/
👉 Research Gild collaboration report: https://iohk.link/3EtRnYt
👉 Contribute to the next report on scalability: https://iohk.link/3Etyvcn
👉 Explore Project Catalyst’s new website: https://projectcatalyst.io/
👉 Subscribe for Project Catalyst weekly newsletter: https://iohk.link/3lR3BUG
👉 Head to the official Lace website to download and test Lace PreProd: https://www.lace.io/
👉 ICYMI play a recording of Lace’s recent Twitter space with Charles Hoskinson & Alex Apeldoorn: https://iohk.link/3lV50cM
👉 Download Essential Cardano Guide To The Ecosystem: https://services.iohk.io/guide-to-the...
👉Stay up to date with the latest news: https://www.essentialcardano.io/
👉COTI launches Djed- watch the full interview with COTI’s CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen https://iohk.link/3YP2CD0
Are you building on Cardano and interested in being featured on Cardano 360? Fill in this form here: https://input-output.typeform.com/to/...

#BuildingOnCardano:
👉 For more on MELD visit: https://www.meld.com/
👉 Lean more about ImperatorLang github.com/ImperatorLang
👉 Get in touch with dcSpark: https://www.dcspark.io/

🔎 From the blog:
👉Read more about the IOG Academy & our 4th iteration of Plutus Pioneers Program: https://iohk.link/3Se0UJ5
👉Register for Plutus Pioneers Program: https://iohk.link/3Sih3Nn
👉New Cardano cryptographic primitives to bring greater interoperability and secure, cross-chain DApp development: https://iohk.link/3RhacU5
👉IOG launches a toolkit for developing custom sidechains on Cardano: https://iohk.link/3XkCJd8

Inclusion in this show is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be treated as financial advice or as a direct endorsement of any project.