Its great seeing this interest in Cardano and Ada. I'm Tom Kelly and work as a Community & Marketing manager at the Cardano Foundation. It's a very exciting time for us right now as we publicly launched Cardano on Friday and today/yesterday began trading on Bittrex.
What is Cardano? Cardano is blockchain technology that harnesses the latest research and engineering best practices to build a system that will run decentralised applications, smart contracts and is fit to securely carry very high value.
Cardano is being built by IOHK, a leading technology company. Their international team of leading experts, academics and cryptographers have built Cardano over the past two years, inspired by the best features of existing cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ripple and Ethereum. Of its many innovations, Cardano is the first blockchain to use a provably secure, proof of stake algorithm - the only one to have been academically peer reviewed by leading cryptographers through its acceptance to Crypto 2017, the worlds top cryptography conference.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amycastor/2017/08/23/at-crypto-2017-blockchain-presentations-focus-on-proofs-not-concepts/#35d474f67b70.
There is a wealth of information available to read on the Cardano Hub website.
https://www.cardanohub.org/en/home/Anyone who has questions about the project should come to our community channels listed below. The roadmap for future updates to the project will be shared very soon, so join the community to keep up to date!
Cardano Community Channels
Slack:
https://cardano.herokuapp.com/Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cardanocommunityTwitter:
https://twitter.com/cardanocomReddit:
https://reddit.com/r/cardanoDo not take this as a bashing. I am merely pointing out what I can read from this initial introduction. A platform for decentralizes apps and smart contracts sounds exactly the same as Ethereum. Why is it the first blockchain to use provable secure POS? What is the difference that makes it so?
Also, academically peer reviewed? Maybe it is the only one that asked to be reviewed. I am certain any number of others can request the same but see no benefit. Is this maybe the "first" with a lot of Doctorates?