Did you know there’s a UTxO on mainnet with +10K ADA for anyone to claim? 😱

The catch?
You need to travel through space to reach it 🚀

Welcome to Asteria! 🧵 Asteria is a strategy game for devs, a bot challenge.

You’re the pilot of a spaceship in a 2D grid. You move your ship by submitting transactions that define its location.

All game elements are represented by UTxOs on the Cardano blockchain.

What if #Cardano builders could leverage all of their UTxO and Plutus expertise to build use-case specific blockchains in Substrate?

Introducing Griffin: Substrate + UTxO + Plutus 🔥🧵 #Cardano is fine-tuned as a robust settlement layer, the trade-off is conservative throughput / finality.

How can we support low-risk, high-throughput use-cases that are better suited for a more relaxed consensus mechanism?

(eg: gaming, social media, DePIN, etc).

From a developer standpoint... WTF is a dApp?

- Is it synonym for smart contract?
- does it need a backend server?
- does it run entirely in a browser / mobile app?
- is it really decentralized if it uses a cloud provider?

some thoughts about it👇🧵

#Cardano #BuildingOnCardano The way I see it, a dApp is a distributed system that incorporates particular non-functional requirements in order to make it "decentralized".

but it isn't a binary quality, it's a spectrum where different components of the same app might be more or less centralized than others.

Sharing an idea for a new #Cardano tool...

It looks like a node, swims like a node, quacks like a node... but it only serves data.

It's called "Dolos": A Cardano Data Node 🧵 Traditionally, nodes assume one of two roles: "relay" or "producer".

We argue that there’s a 3rd role that should be treated independently: nodes with the purpose of resolving local state queries or serving as data source for downstream tools that require ledger data.