Since its inception in 2015, Ethereum has been the dominant platform for crypto companies to build projects on. Its combination of smart contracts and ERC-20 tokens allows anyone to create their own tokens on top of Ethereum’s infrastructure – that led to the birth of DeFi.
As a result, a litany of other protocols has been racing to create their own versions of Ethereum’s ecosystem.
Some of the quickest has been Solana, Tezos and Near, who have been aggressively courting developers to build on their platforms. One of the more cautious projects trying to create an Ethereum alternative is Cardano. It also was founded in 2015, but rather than adding functionality quickly, IOHK, the project that oversees the development of Cardano, has been slowly adding features after extensive testing and peer review.
What is Cardano (ADA)? The Peer-Reviewed Blockchain
Some six years after its inception, Cardano’s Alonzo upgrade is about to add a raft of new features that bring it more closel
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