# Cardano

## Notes

* [Cardano appears to be a trap for moderately smart people who don’t have time to read cryptocurrency whitepapers all day. Staking is nothing new, smart contracts are nothing new.](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26005048)

## Links

* [Charles Hoskinson | A Year in Review for Cardano in 2018](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJQKSTcL5pI)
* [Cardano Progress Update (Jan 2019)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWVwfedO54Y)
* [IOHK PlutusFest Keynote Address | CEO Charles Hoskinson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbTlrzvz6Bc)
* [IOHK PlutusFest 2018 | IOHK Language Architect - Manuel Chakravarty Interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZL9SBNfS-0\&feature=share)
* [Charles Hoskinson - The Road Ahead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu9-j2H9qQY)
* [In Defense of Peer Review (2019)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-rbn73cUEk) ([Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/cardano/comments/aopmjc/in_defense_of_peer_review/))
* [The IOHK Summit 2019 - Live Stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAJ5n_smUY4)
* [New Shelley formal specifications complete (2019)](https://iohk.io/blog/new-shelley-formal-specifications-complete/)
* [Cardano Roadmap](https://cardanoroadmap.com/)
* [Plutus Platform](https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus) - Plutus language implementation and tools.
* [Enter the Hydra: scaling distributed ledgers, the evidence-based way (2020)](https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2020/03/26/enter-the-hydra-scaling-distributed-ledgers-the-evidence-based-way/)
* [Formal Models for Ledger Rules](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-ledger-specs) - Formal specification and executable model of the ledger rules introduced by the Shelley release.
* [cardano-node](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node) - Integration of the ledger, consensus, networking and node shell repositories.
* [Cardano Ops](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-ops) - NixOps deployment configuration for IOHK/Cardano devops.
