Cardano On-Chain Governance: The Voltaire Era and CIP-1694

Cardano On-Chain Governance: The Voltaire Era and CIP-1694

A technical overview of Cardano's on-chain governance under CIP-1694 (the Voltaire era). Covers the three governance bodies, the seven action types, ratification thresholds and lifecycle, vote delegation, and what it means for developers.

10 minute read
A Categorized Guide to Cardano Improvement Proposals

A Categorized Guide to Cardano Improvement Proposals

A categorized tour of the Cardano Improvement Proposals. Explains the CIP and CPS processes, the status lifecycle, and walks through all nine official categories (Meta, Ledger, Consensus, Network, Wallets, Tokens, Metadata, Plutus, Tools) with their notable proposals.

15 minute read
Writing Cardano Smart Contracts with Aiken

Writing Cardano Smart Contracts with Aiken

A technical guide to Aiken, the smart-contract language for Cardano. Covers the eUTXO validator model, the single-binary toolchain, Plutus V3 validator handlers, parameterized minting policies, the built-in test runner, and the CIP-57 blueprint deployment flow.

15 minute read
Three Vulnerabilities from the OpenZeppelin Stellar Contracts Audits

Three Vulnerabilities from the OpenZeppelin Stellar Contracts Audits

A technical walkthrough of three real, resolved findings from the OpenZeppelin Stellar Contracts audits — silent supply inflation via self-recovery, signer aliasing through non-canonical keys, and a ledger-arithmetic TTL underflow — each with the vulnerable code, a flow diagram, and the fix.

15 minute read
Deploying a SEP-41 Fungible Token on Stellar with OpenZeppelin

Deploying a SEP-41 Fungible Token on Stellar with OpenZeppelin

A technical walkthrough of the three ways to issue a fungible token on Stellar, the architecture of the OpenZeppelin stellar-tokens library, and a compile-verified SEP-41 contract from cargo new to a funded testnet deployment.

27 minute read