Dear Readers,



We are delighted to report that Cardano has now successfully launched! For the last two years we have been working towards this point, and we are incredibly humbled by your support and belief, without which, none of this would have been possible. Launch Update Cardano has now successfully launched, and is publicly trading on Bittrex, our first exchange partnership. In the first 24 hours of Ada being listed on Bittrex over $100 million dollars was traded on the BTC <> ADA market. Cardano instantly jumped into the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap globally. There has been a lot of press coverage, including an article on Nasdaq.com, which you can read below. Read Article Launch Event On Saturday 14th October the partners responsible for creating and maintaining Cardano will be hosting a launch event. The event will take place in Tokyo and key team members from Emurgo, IOHK and Cardano Foundation will be presenting. See below for a schedule of the events presentations:



1.00pm - Doors open



2.00pm - Greetings and opening speech



2.10pm - The role of Emurgo and future goals - Ken Kodoma, CEO of Emurgo



2.20pm - Emurgo’s road map - Darren Camas, senior advisor to Emurgo



3.00pm - Future development road map - Charles Hoskinson, CEO of IOHK



3.40pm - Cardano engineering and design - Duncan Coutts, Int Director of Engineering at IOHK



4.30pm - Ouroboros and the consensus design - Bernardo David, Research Fellow for IOHK and Assistant Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology



4.50pm - The Daedalus Wallet - Team Daedalus



5.10pm - The Role of Cardano Foundation - Michael Parsons FCA, Chairman of Cardano Foundation



6.00pm - Event ends



The event is now fully booked, but there will be a Facebook live stream link which will be posted across our community channels, including the Cardano community Facebook group. Cardano Community Facebook Cardano Help Desk Tour Update Hundreds of Ada voucher holders attended our help desk tour which travelled across Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima and Fukuoka. The feedback Cardano representatives received was that it was extremely useful and it was extremely encouraging to see how excited many members are about the project. The tour will be in Tokyo at the TKP Garden City Shibuya between Wednesday 11th of October to Friday 13th October. If you have not yet signed up and would like to attend please register via the below link. Book Now The Cardano community is growing! We have seen great participation across all Cardano online community channels since the launch on Friday 29th October. Below are some key community stats from the launch: The Cardano community Facebook group which only launched on Thursday 28th September now has over 3,400 members The Cardano Foundation and Cardano community Twitter accounts now have a combined following of over 5,800 followers The Cardano Community Slack has now grown to over 2,900 members The Cardano Reddit page has seen a dramatic increase in subscribers, now with over 800 readers We would like to thank all community members for being so active across all our channels, as well as a special thank you to everyone who has posted about Cardano across the wider cryptocurrency community. There will always be those who try to hinder Cardano’s success by spreading myths, rumours, or lies about the project.



As a community each one of us has a responsibility to promote the true value of the Cardano project and it's great to see members taking initiative in the early days of our public launch. From everyone at Emurgo, IOHK and Cardano Foundation we thank you for your continued support. Please keep up the good work!