Cardano Overview
  • 📖What is cardano?
    • Cardano 101
    • Onboarding Guide
      • Simple Cardano
    • Cardano Statistics
    • Flawed Narratives About Cardano
      • Facts About Cardano Market Evolution
  • ⚙️How does Cardano work?
    • Table of Contents
      • Three Layers
        • Consensus Layer
          • Proof of Stake (PoS)
          • Pros and Cons of PoS
        • Ledger Layer
        • Network Layer
      • Cryptography
      • Peer-to-peer Communication Between Nodes
      • Interoperability
      • Hard Fork Combinator
      • Stake pools
      • Financial Aspects
        • The ada token: definition and functionality
        • Staking
        • RealFi
  • 🌐Blockchain Model
    • Blockchain Model Contents
      • Cardano Roadmap
        • BYRON
        • SHELLEY
        • GOGUEN
        • BASHO (We are here)
          • Basho Era Progresses with Vasil Hard Fork
        • VOLTAIRE
      • Extended Unspent Transaction Output (EUTXO)
      • No-Surprises Transaction Validation on Cardano
      • Things Cardano Does Not Do
        • Cryptocurrency Burning
  • 🕸️Descentralization
    • Descentralization Contents
      • Ouroboros
      • The Ouroboros Path to Descentralization
        • Further Reading
  • 🌌Scalability
    • Scalability Contents
      • Taking a Closer Look at IOG Research
        • How Layer 1 and Layer 2 Solutions Create a Faster and More Resilient Blockchain
        • Scaling Cardano
      • Layer 1 Solutions
        • Pipelining in Ouroboros
        • Input Endorsers
        • Tiered Pricing
      • Layer 2 Solutions
        • Sidechains
          • Easy Addition of New features
          • Scalability
        • Hydra
        • Mithril
  • 🏛️Governance
    • Governance Contents
      • Liquid Democracy
      • Project Catalyst
      • Catalyst Circle and Community Participation
  • 🎨Cardano Ecosystem
    • Ecosystem Contents
      • Wallets
        • Daedalus
        • Lovelace
          • By building Lovelace we aim to...
        • Yoroi
        • Hardware wallets
        • Other compatible wallets
      • Ecosystem
        • Ecosystem Explorer
        • Marketplaces -Minting service
        • P2P trade
        • Cardano Blockchain Explorer
        • Tools
        • Faucets
        • Documentation
        • Payments
        • News
      • EVM Compatibility
        • Milkomeda
        • Blueshift
      • Descentralized Exchanges (DEX)
      • DApp Store
        • Demeter Run
      • Stable Coins in Cardano
      • Projects
        • Digital Identity
        • Educational Initiatives
        • A Long List of Projects
      • NFTs
      • Glossary
  • 📣Social media
    • Social Media
      • Official Cardano Media
      • Cardano Fans Media
  • 🛠️Developer portal
    • Developer Portal Contents
      • Programming Languages
        • Haskell
        • Plutus
        • Marlowe
      • Plutus Tx: Compiling Haskell Into Plutus Core
      • Cardano Resources and Further Reading
      • Research Papers
  • 📝About
    • About
      • Purpose of This Site
      • Who am I?
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  1. What is cardano?

Cardano 101

Cardano is a third-generation, open source, proof-of-stake blockchain platform.

Table of Contents

  • What is Cardano?

  • Founding and IOG Organization

  • The Team Behind Cardano

  • The Cardano Blockchain

  • Commitment to Decentralization

  • How does Cardano work?

    • Three layers: Concensus, Ledger and Network layers.h

  • Cryptography

  • Peer-to-peer communication between nodes

  • Ouroborosg

  • What makes Ouroboros unique?

  • EUTXO

  • Interoperability

  • Sidechains

  • Hydra

  • Mithril

  • DApp Store

  • Hard Fork Combinator

  • Programming languages

  • Chain comparisons

  • Financial aspects

  • Wallets

  • Governance

  • Digital Identity

  • Educational initiatives

  • NFTs

  • Cardano resources and further reading

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