Dear Readers,



This week has been a very exciting time at Cardano, momentum is building with growth of interest in our forums and social channels. We also had new exchange listings and currency pairings for Ada, further improving liquidity and progress on the technology roadmap. Interest in the Cardano project is reflected in the growth of Cardano’s market capitalisation, now putting Ada in the top 10 cryptocurrencies globally. This is a strong message from the crypto community and provides validation of Cardano’s potential as a transformative technology. We have a two updates today on the imminent launch of Rocket.Chat, our new messaging platform, as well as Cardano Forum launched last week.



Further, we would like to share with you some of the key highlights from the updated Roadmap which IOHK released earlier today.



We have a couple of updates today on the imminent launch of Rocket.Chat, our new messaging platform, as well as Cardano Forum which was launched last week.



Further, we would like to share with you some of the key highlights from the updated Roadmap which IOHK released earlier today. The Cardano Forum



We have also created a section just for our Last week we launched the new Cardano Forum to create a space for the Cardano community to interact, as well as creating a knowledgebase for all things Cardano. Adoption has been strong, with over 1000 members signed up in less than a week registering 100k total pageviews!We have also created a section just for our Japanese community and will be adding more countries and languages in the coming weeks and months. Sign up to Forum Binance Lists Ada Yesterday major exchange Binance listed Ada with a BTC and ETH pairing! This is fantastic news and will allow the Cardano community to continue to grow. Click below to see the live markets on Binance.

ADA <> BTC



ADA <> ETH

Rocket.Chat (Beta) We have selected Rocket.Chat as our new chat platform based. At this time our implementation of Rocket.Chat is in ‘beta testing’, meaning we are actively testing features and performance, however the platform is fully open for our community to join and we encourage you to sign up and start chatting with other Cardano community members.



Rocket.Chat offers similar chat functionality to Slack, but gives us the tools to better protect our users from spammers and scammers. Whilst there will always be teething issues with adopting a new platform, we are confident that this is the right direction for the community. We will be slowly phasing out support for Slack, so please use Rocket.Chat from now on. We look forward to seeing you there! chat.cardanohub.org Roadmap Update The roadmap released today includes more detail on the features that will be part of Shelley, the next phase of Cardano development.



This includes the voting centre, through which users will vote on proposals to develop the protocol. Paper wallets are being introduced to help users securely hold Ada offline in cold storage. Users will find it much quicker to start up the Daedalus wallet through the introduction of a light client mode that will enable a faster syncing time to the blockchain. Visualisations for some of these features will help show users what exactly these features will look like. IOHK engineers are also moving to a revised working process which is possible now the foundation of Bryon can be built upon.



This new approach to software development where more regular updates are made to the code will bring benefits to users, such as features being delivered sooner.



This is a major change that involves detailed planning and coordination and is explained in a blog post. Cardano Roadmap