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What is the logic behind Cardano's tokenomics and emmission schedule?
Bitcoin was made to be mined until roughly 2140. I like that it was made for decades to come while many projects are built for 4 years or whatever.
Personally I do not believe inflation in and of ...
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Why Strict Evaluation Operator "!" used in record definition implemented in Plutus Core?
While declaring records for use in Plutus strict operator is used like this:
data Auction = Auction
{ aSeller :: !PubKeyHash
, aDeadline :: !Slot
, aMinBid :: !Integer
, aCurrency :: !...
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How do I determine who the moderators are for Project Catalyst?
I am trying to find out who to contact if I need to ask a question, make a suggestion or make a request about changes to a proposal or challenge.
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What are the pros and cons of Cardano's liquid staking over other protocols that use a bonded staking model?
As some background, Cardano has a "liquid" staking model, which means that stake is never locked when it is being delegated. Other, "bonded" staking models require a locking period ...
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Stake pool leader logs
What is the earliest point to check the leader log for the next epoch using tools like cncli? I though it was 60 hours in to the current epoch, but keep getting the "Query returned no rows" ...
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Are the locked funds in a contract still considered as delegated to a wallet and can get staking rewards?
The question here is if script-locked outputs can still have a staking key associated with them (decided by the person creating the output) and whether this enables the funds to be delegated in a ...
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What is the maximum timeout for a contract that you can define in Marlowe?
We know that Marlowe contracts always end mandatorily because a maximum timeout is defined. I wonder what the maximum timeout is, it seems like you can put a huge epoch/slot in which would be ...
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What is the maximum number of contracts Cardano can store?
I see Ethereum (ETH) can store 2256 smart contracts, so is there any description about this for Cardano, i.e. how many contracts can Cardano store?
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What are Catalyst "challenge setting" challenges for?
I have a solution idea that can be solved by Cardano and couldn't find the right category for it. I want to put it in the "challenge setting" challenge.
Do "challenge setting" ...
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How does one create a new native token with full control? [closed]
We would like to create a native asset on Cardano ourselves. How does one go about doing this?
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What advantages does Cardano have over other "fast" blockchains?
I'm a developer looking into starting my first dApp project. I've been waiting for Cardano to release smart contracts due to Ethereum's insane gas fees and low transaction throughput.
I recently ...
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Is the NFT ticker unique?
When I create a new token, how can I differentiate it from another token?
Can various NFT tokens exist with the same ticker?
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I have kudos in Catalyst/ideascale, why can't I give it?
When I try to give Kudos to a proposal, it says that I don't have enough. Even when I have kudos showing as available.
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How do I prevent text in Catalyst proposals and insights from losing formatting?
Whenever I edit text in Catalyst proposals and Insights, new-lines are dropped, text that follows bullet points gets indented and previously established formatting is disturbed.
Is there a way to ...
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Where to find current transactions per second statistic?
Is there any official website to find it?
I can't find it on internet.
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What time Cardano Mainnet To Be Launched? [closed]
I am new to Cardano and I want to learn and code with it. I have search a lot on Google and nothing found. Sorry for misunderstand question!
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What are the security risks of storing an encrypted wallet seed in a password manager?
We've all seen the recommendation against storing our wallet seed phrases digitally. And while I understand the sentiment and reasoning, in reality, for many it could be even less secure to store a ...
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Where can I see my NFT?
Recently bought a NFTea from here, where do I go to check out the actual image? Is there a Cardano NFT explorer or similar?
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Is there a Ganache-like in Cardano?
Currently, I have been playing around with the Cardano Playground and I was wondering if there is an existing tool already present where I can personally run a Cardano blockchain like Ganache of ...
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Could the d-factor still be changed, to revert to more centralized block production by IOG?
Nothing is mentioned anywhere if, and according to which policy, IOG can move the d-“slider” in the other direction, to again start producing more centralized blocks whenever they deem this necessary. ...
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What is the expected ROA (Return of ADA) after all coins are minted?
After all coins are minted as far as I know the rewards will come from the transactions fees. At the moment we have 4.5 to 6.0% annual return of staked ADAs. When and how this will change after we ...
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Is Cardano the only platform with 100% decentralized block production?
Inspired by this comment saying that decentralization of block production is overused in the way people market Cardano online, I was curious to see if any other platforms have achieved this. I know ...
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How to delegate ada to several staking pools using only one wallet?
At the moment if you want to delegate different amount of ada to more than one staking pool you should have two or more wallets. Is there a way to delegate a portion of the coins to one staking pool ...
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To what extent does Cardano's "off-chain governance" in the form of a Board of Directors pose a threat to Cardano's mission of being decentralized?
On 31 March 2021, Cardano reached "100% decentralization" meaning that 100% of the blocks are produced by the stake pools.
An excellent introduction about Cardano decentralization is given ...
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How does one decide what is the best stake pool to delegate to?
I'm ready to delegate to a pool. I know the easiest options are to do so using either Daedalus or Yoroi. But, how do I choose which pool to stake to and does it really matter?
I found this post on ...
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How would Cardano applications function with intermittent internet connection?
With Cardano's ambition of bringing self-sovereign digital identity and finance to billions of people, it is important to consider that many people do not have constant electricity or stable internet.
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OutputTooSmallUTxO even with 2 ADA [closed]
I get OutputTooSmallUTxO even with 2 ADA, is there any formula to predict the min output?
Command failed: transaction submit Error: Error while submitting tx: ShelleyTxValidationError ...
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How will DApps work on Cardano?
This may been too broad of a question but I was hoping to ask a few specific questions here rather than over multiple questions. I don't think DApps are available yet but I'm sure people have started ...
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Stake pool - Failed to start all required subscriptions
Description
I recently went through a router failure and an upgrade. And with that local and external IP addresses changes. After an IP address update both relay and producer nodes are fetching ...
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Is it possible to reuse the blockchain for both relay and block producing nodes?
While setting up Cardano Stake Pool, we need to have at least 2 nodes: one for Relay, another for Block Producing (BP).
This Relay node downloads the whole blockchain, and the BP Node will connect ...
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Where can I get the BIP39 file?
I would like to leave a copy of the BIP39 words with a person of my trust.
Where is the safest place I can download the BIP39 file?
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Can I restore my Yoroi account with only 12 words?
Yoroi wants 15 words from me, but I only wrote down 12. I know it was a Shelley wallet, and can see all details about my Cardano.
Can I restore my account without seed phrase?
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How does one create receive addresses for a wallet programatically?
We wish to generate large numbers of receive addresses for a single wallet. These addresses will let us identify who is sending us Cardano, or other native assets. Can someone explain how one goes ...
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How to make your own coin on the ADA Cardano Network?
Is there way to start your own coin in ADA Cardano Network?
Research Effort :
I just googled idea but no suggestions about Cardano?
Any Advice?
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Are there any negative effects of having too many stake pools run by central exchanges?
I was browsing through the adapools.org groups section to see how decentralized the stake pools were and I noticed that a lot of the central exchanges have a ton of ADA staked and lot of stake pools.
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Are native tokens divisible?
If I mint a NEAT token, can I send .5 NEAT to someone or do I have to send a whole 1 NEAT?
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Why is the growth in value of ADA being described as "parabolic" rather than "exponential" or something else?
Here I list multiple articles since March 2021 that have described ADA's value as undergoing a "parabolic" trajectory:
26 March 2021: Cardano Technical Analysis: ADA Has Flipped The ...
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Why am I prompted to recover Yoroi Wallet every time on startup?
Every time I start the app, despite it logging in, I can not see my wallet.
I can see the two options to add a wallet. After that, I can choose between creating, restoring, and connecting to a ledger.
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How many receive addresses per wallet?
We are curious how many receive addresses can possibly be generated for a given wallet?
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How can a node verify a transaction with a script address without the script?
How can a node verify a transaction with a script address without the script?
I mean when i start a node months after the transaction has been minted into a block. How can my node verify that the ...
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How can I stop Daedalus filling up my Time Machine backup drive on MacOS?
Every time I open Daedalus, a multiple gigabyte backup is triggered to Time Machine at the next backup time. This is likely to fill up a Time Machine backup drive fairly quickly.
Thus I'm wondering ...
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What do I need to run a stake pool?
I would like to run a stake pool, but don't know if I am capable to do this. What do I need for that?
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Why was the platform/foundation named after Gerolamo Cardano?
Cardano was named after the 16th century Italian scientist Gerolamo Cardano; given the people designing the platform it makes sense to name it after a scientist, but is there any reason to ...
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Multisig wallet for Cardano?
Does Cardano support multisig wallets? If not, are there any ongoing projects to have them implemented, any standards defined or at least drafts proposed?
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How to restore a wallet with 24 words and passphrase?
The BIP39 standard supports an optional passphrase.
Cold wallets such as Ledger wallet support this feature, so you can have your private key additionally to 24 words secured with passphrase.
At this ...
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How are NFTs being minted without smart contract in Cardano?
NFTs are being minted in Cardano even without a smart contract in place. How does it ensure that no more token gets minted with the same ID?
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What are the practical motivations for owning ADA crypto currency? [closed]
As a person who are deciding to buy some ADA currency, what I am getting in return?
So far using ADA I can have:
Voting rights (governance)
Ability to run a pool
Grow your voting power through ...
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Can Cardano be used to mint and trade gaming NFTs?
Being a total noob when it comes to using blockchain for development, I would like to know if Cardano can be used, at the time being, to mint and trade NFTs for gaming purposes and if this could be ...
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How can a developer access the Cardano network?
As a developer building an application, what are different way to access the Cardano network?
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How Cardano is different from Ethereum (2.0)?
As far as I know, the Cardano project was started to cover issues/problems with Ethereum blockchain. Proof-of-work and governance are some of them.
However, Ethereum 2.0 is promising to cover those ...
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