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Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 20, 2026Published at 1:39 AM EDT · New York
Hoskinson Is Writing a New Smart-Contract Language for Cardano, Which Holds $63 Million in DeFi
Solana reported 8.92 billion non-vote transactions in the third quarter, a sign of how far activity is concentrating on a few chains.
Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, said on X that he is building a new programming language for the network. The language will bundle transaction requests with cryptographic proofs. He has not given it a name, a specification or a r…
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As total on-chain capital contracts, value keeps concentrating on the largest chains and the applications with live demand, squeezing long-tail protocols and forcing consolidation.
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