Hello, Builder! 👋 It’s time for IOG’s monthly roundup of developer related news and updates…
🥑 This newsletter is curated by Rebecca Hopwood for developers and our technical community. If you'd like to help improve our work, make a suggestion, or share an idea, please offer your feedback by filling out the short survey below.
Here's a quick overview of what you'll find in this digest...
🗓️ Community calendar ⚒️ Ecosystem tools 👀 Cardano working groups
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📝 NEW CARDANO ECOSYSTEM RESOURCE
🎉We are excited to announce that there is now a new Cardano Ecosystem Tools section on Cardano Docs. This is a space where you can share your expertise, insights, and experience with the Cardano community by contributing useful tutorials, guidelines, and solution overviews related to development on the Cardano blockchain.
To add a new section, all you need to do is open a pull request on the Cardano Docs repository, create a new file, and use Markdown formatting to structure your documentation. We ask that you follow the common structure outlined in our contribution guidelines, which can be found in the Cardano Ecosystem Tools section. 📝
💪 Your contribution will help maintain a high standard of quality for the Cardano Ecosystem Tools section and ensure that it continues to be a valuable resource for the Cardano community.
Thank you for your contributions, and happy development! 🚀
📈 DAPP RELATIONS
The number of projects building on Cardano continues to grow every week! Here's an updated overview of the projects we're currently tracking (up from 1203 projects last month)…
🗓️ COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Here are a few of the stages and spaces you can expect to see across IOG’s channels this month…
🐉 Hydra monthly review - April 26th: Join the monthly Hydra review meeting on Wednesday, April 19th at 16:15 UTC, in which the team behind the Hydra project will share demos & recaps on progress since the previous month, a run through of the roadmap, community feedback, and more. Add it to your calendar here or find the event in Discord.
🎙️ Hydra Twitter space - April 27th: IOG has been collaborating and exploring use cases for Hydra with MLabs, one of which includesa way to handle auctions.Join us on the IOHK Twitter account with members of IOG, MLabs, and community guests, to discuss this potential use case!
✨ Essential Cardano360 - April 27th: Join us on YouTube for the premier of the April edition of your usual 360 show. We’ll be joined by guests from the ecosystem, as well as members of the IOG team. Keep an eye out on Twitter for more details.
Have an idea for a Discord stage or Twitter space? Let us know in the survey linked above! For upcoming events, keep an eye out on the IOG technical community Discord server!
👀 ESSENTIAL CARDANO360
In March, the team shared another episode of Cardano360, your essential guide to the latest news from across the ecosystem. In that spirit, IOG has rebranded the show to become an arm of Essential Cardano, a channel for promoting community-generated content, while championing the innovators scaling the ecosystem for continued adoption.
In the latest edition of Essential Cardano360, we’re bringing you the latest content, enriched with insights and updates from various team members and ecosystem guests.
ICYMI: Check out the P2P explainer video from Duncan Coutts here, an explainer for CIP-1694 here, plus the first public Hydra monthly meeting here.
🎉 LACE 1.0 IS HERE!
Lace 1.0 has landed!
Designed to make your Web3 journey as effortless and enjoyable as possible, Lace lets you manage digital assets, view and store NFTs, view transactions, easily stake your ada, and connect your wallet to Cardano DApps, all from one easy-to-use, fast, and secure space.
Catalyst: The Catalyst team is committed to facilitating business growth and technical workshops, to offer as much education as possible to support the growth, development, and success of projects building in the Catalyst ecosystem.
The team is looking to increase the cadence of these sessions and keep the community connected with the process. With this in mind, they are opening up speaker/guest slots for business and technical leaders within the community to sign up and deliver presentations at the workshop sessions, taking place on the bi-weekly coordinator meetings.
👉 If you’d like to take part, please sign up via this form.
👀 CARDANO WORKING GROUPS
The Cardano ecosystem has seen tremendous growth in the past year. With this growth, there have been areas of development that have needed to expand in parallel. One way to tackle these usability and interoperability domains through community collaboration is the assembly of a number of informal developer Working Groups (WG).
A Working Group brings together experts and committed community members around one specific topic of discussion. Each group sets its own goals regarding solutions to drive ecosystem success and adoption going forward. Read this blog to find out more about what these are, and how you can get involved.
Input Output Global (IOG) is currently facilitating the creation and bootstrapping of these groups. The ultimate goal is community empowerment to self-mobilize and collaborate on decision-making processes and solution implementation.
🆕 STATUS UPDATES
For weekly insights into development around core technology, wallets, services, governance and more, check out the regular status updates from members of the IOG team here.
