Open Source @ Cardano Foundation
The Team
Matthias
@KtorZ
Lucas
@rvcas
Kasey
@MicroProofs
🇫🇷 France (Occitanie)
🇺🇸 USA (Florida)
What do we do?
We solve (technical) problems.
What do we do?
We solve (technical) problems.
Adoption
Operational Resilience
Education
Installers & executables
Command-line interface
Compiler
Language parser
Type-checker
Code generation
Optimizer
Language-server
Interoperability
Blueprints (CIP-0057)
Off-chain SDK / plugins
Online playground
Packages manager
Documentation
Tutorials
End-to-end examples
API reference
Plutus Virtual Machine
UPLC manipulation
Transaction simulation
CEK evaluation
Testing & Benchmarking framework
Standard library
Community management / support
Adoption?
experimenting
experimenting
Bitcoin style Proof-of-Work as a Cardano smart contract
- Presented & initiated at RareEvo as a workshop
- Complete end-to-end example of a non-trivial smart contract
- On-boarded hundred of developers
- Became the 4th most used DApp on Cardano within a week
- Fully open source, with community miners, explorers & tooling
aiken @ 1.0.19-alpha
aiken @ 1.y.z-beta
- Bugs fixing
- More LSP features (auto-imports, type lenses, go-to definition...)
- Compiler formalization & simplification
- Off-chain code generators (JavaScript, Python, Haskell, Rust, ...)
- Property-based testing framework
- More UX improvements
18 releases since 1.0.0 !
The gateway to Cardano
since 2020
Block synchronization
Transaction submission
Smart contracts evaluation
Mempool monitoring
Ledger state queries
Cardano Network
Node
DApp
Cardano Network
Who is using it?
Kupo!
A fast, lightweight and configurable chain-indexer
☑️ Simple ☑️ Rollback friendly ☑️ Battle-tested ☑️ Well-documented
by Address by Stake Address by Credential by Asset name by Policy Id by Transaction Id by Metadata Tag
Hydra
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Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs) reviews, authoring & editorship
- CIP-0085, CIP-1694, CIP-0057, CIP-0094, CIP-0058, CIP-0030...
- Cardano Academy content writing & reviewing
- State of the Developers Ecosystem (2022, 2023, ...)
- Interviews, Twitter spaces, Discord groups & ecosystem presence
- Builders technical support, architecture advice & integration
- Governance, Intersect discussions, SPO poll(s)
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Open source libraries contributions
- Pallas, Lucid, Plutigo, Ouroboros-network, Ouroboros-consensus, Cardano-api, Cardano-ledger, Scrolls, Oura, Hydra, Mithril...
And more...
- Aiken Beta
- Lucid V2 & Transaction building
- Cardano Developers-only Conference
- Rollup
- Layer-2 NFT Marketplace
- Swift / Elixir Cardano SDKs
- Alternative Rust Node
What's next?
Open Source
By Matthias Benkort
