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Developer Portal

Why develop in cardano?

• 3rd Gen

  • Cardano is a decentralized third-generation proof-of-stake blockchain platform and home to the ada cryptocurrency. It is the first blockchain platform to evolve out of a scientific philosophy and a research-first driven approach.

• Formally Verified

  • The Cardano platform has been designed from the ground up and verified by an industry-leading combination of top engineers and academic experts in the fields of blockchain and cryptography. Cardano uses formal verification methods to ensure that the system behaves as designed.

• Security

  • Security is one of the founding principles of our blockchain. Cardano is written in Haskell, a secure functional programming language that encourages building a system using pure functions. This leads to a design where components are conveniently testable in isolation. Furthermore, advanced features of Haskell enable us to employ a whole range of powerful methods for ensuring code correctness, such as basing the implementation on formal and executable specifications, extensive property-based testing, and running tests in simulation.

• Scalability

  • For Cardano to deliver a resilient infrastructure on a global scale, it needs to be able to scale on par with legacy financial systems. Even though we have designed Cardano with resource efficiency in mind, scaling remains a fundamental problem for blockchain systems of all kinds. To get towards a solution of the scaling problem, cardano researchers have different solutions for Layer 1 and Layer 2. This means cardano will keep speeding up and in parallel.

• Interoperable

  • The ability to interact with other systems, or interoperability, is a fundamental design feature of Cardano. One of the current design innovations in Cardano is the use of sidechains, which means that you can compartmentalize the system and enable interoperability within the blockchain platform. Data can be kept off the main chain in what is called a sidechain. Multiple sidechains can run concurrently, so if one part fails, the rest of the system does not fail, as it is maintained separately. This results in greater assurance and reliability within the blockchain. By using sidechains you can transfer assets between parallel blockchains that operate in different rules, mechanisms or languages and ways of utilizing the network.

• Descentralization:

  • How descentralized is cardano? Check https://adapools.org/groups

    • Green color means single pool operators.

    • The other colors are organizations / whales.

• Efficiency

  • Cardano has bundled sales / transfers to multiple addresses. And Cardano does it in one transaction! This means less network traffic.

  • After Vasil HF, transactions are faster and they can carry thousands of NFTs and tokens each.

Sources:

https://docs.cardano.org/

https://docs.cardano.org/explore-cardano/cardano-design-rationale