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Introduction
Cardano (ADA) has become one of the fastest growing blockchain assets in the entire cryptocurrency industry. ADA has entered the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization since its launch in 2015. Its technology is advancing at a high speed and aims to take on Ethereum in building a large blockchain ecosystem.
Cardano is a digital currency that can be used to store value or send and receive money. The ADA cryptocurrency runs on the Cardano blockchain, a one-of-a-kind decentralized network entirely based on scientific and mathematical principles and designed by cryptography and engineering experts.
Cardano is a digital currency that can be used to store value or send and receive money. The ADA cryptocurrency runs on the Cardano blockchain, a one-of-a-kind decentralized network entirely based on scientific and mathematical principles and designed by cryptography and engineering experts.
Cardano History
Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Ethereum, started the development of Cardano in 2015 and launched the platform in 2017.
Cardano has positioned itself as an alternative to Ethereum. Both platforms are used for similar applications, such as smart contracts, with the aim of creating a connected and decentralized system.
Cardano sees itself as an improved version of Ethereum and promotes itself as a “third generation” platform, compared to the “second generation” of Ethereum. The blockchain platform also seeks to provide banking services to the unbanked worldwide.
How does Cardan work?
Cardano’s mission is to be an environmentally sustainable blockchain platform. It uses a unique verification system called Ouroboros, as opposed to the proof-of-work system currently used by Bitcoin and Ethereum. (Ethereum is moving to a proof-of-concept system through the ETH2 upgrade).
What is proof of work? A decentralized cryptocurrency network should ensure that no one spends the same amount twice without a central authority like Visa or PayPal in between. To do this, they use a “consensus system”. The first crypto contract system is called Proof of Work, which was first popularized by Bitcoin mining.
Proof of work requires a lot of processing power, in which “miners” around the world compete to be the first to solve time-consuming mathematical puzzles. The winner can update the blockchain with the latest unconfirmed transactions and is rewarded with a predetermined amount of crypto.
What is proof of stake? Instead of using a network of miners running to solve the puzzle, proof of stake uses a network of investors called validators. Instead of providing administrative authority to secure the network and monitor transactions like miners do, service providers implement their own ADA. The network selects the winner based on the number of ADAs each sponsor has in the pool and how long they have been there, rewarding real investors.
When a winner validates the final block of a transaction, other validators can testify that the block is valid. When a threshold number of proofs occurs, the network updates the blockchain.
All participating sponsors receive ADA commissions, which are distributed by the network in proportion to each sponsor. Becoming a sponsor is a big undertaking, but interested parties can also earn ADA rewards by “donating” some of their crypto to a staking pool controlled by a third party.
Cardano blockchain is divided into two different layers:
Cardano settlement layer (CSL) and Cardano computing layer (CCL). CSL has a ledger and balance sheet (and is where transactions are confirmed by the Ouroboros confirmation system). The CCL platform is the center of all computations for applications running on the blockchain – through smart contract functionality. The idea of splitting the blockchain into two layers is to help the Cardano network process up to one million transactions per second.
What’s so special about Cardano?
The team behind Cardano took inspiration from the world of academic publishing and adopted a peer-reviewed approach to their cryptocurrency. What does that mean? Well, all changes and new features introduced are developed, reviewed and accepted by scholars before being used, including the network’s consensus algorithm, Ouroboros (later).
The network’s code was written in the Haskell programming language, which is used by companies such as Bank of America and AT&T. And IOHK, the company behind Cardano, has published several academic papers describing the platform and its technology. The Ethereum network currently uses a verification system to verify transactions, which consumes a lot of electricity and can only process a small number of transactions at the same time.
Cardano uses proof-of-concept, which consumes little energy; the network uses an algorithm called Ouroboros to choose the next block creator and to validate the block. (Ethereum 2.0 upgrade will see Ethereum transition to proof of limit as of the end of 2021).
Proponents of proof-of-concept say that a consensus-based system makes blockchain networks more secure and reduces their carbon footprint.
How to invest in Cardano
For people who believe in the technological value of Cardano, it is not difficult to invest in it.
The ADA token is listed on several major crypto exchanges and has a large capitalization and trading volume. Coinbase Global (COIN) added support for Cardano in March of this year, providing high-level support for the service. In addition to Coinbase, Cardano is traded heavily on Binance, Kraken, and Gate.io, among other popular exchanges.
Cardano’s price has fluctuated, both this year and historically. So potential investors should be aware of this and consider Cardano as part of a larger diversified cryptocurrency portfolio. However, the investment from Cardano can make sense, since it has a good chance to remove large transactions from Ethereum. Tatibouet says, “Cardano can take advantage of Ethereum’s lost gas payment to carve out a niche.” Cardano may not be an overnight success, but it has enough value to keep running in crypto.
