Updates

Showcase State management

I have been silent for a while, publishing progress reports and demos is not as fun as programming and debugging. I released the latest update of cardano.el , which now uses an SQLite database to manage state. It is a massive increase in complexity, but it enables wallet like features. It keeps track of key files, script files and manages addresses. More over it now has an optional integration to Cardano-Wallet, the backend for Daedalus. That solves managing an HD wallet and directly spending. For everything else of more complex nature you can go back to using the editor.

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Secured funding from Catalyst

Earlier this week Catalyst released the results of Fund 7. I was pleased to find some of my projects received enough support for funding. Thank you to all of you who entrusted me with their confidence vote. Cardano.el the transaction editor Had a flawless score from the Community advisors 5.0, the only one on the Open Source Developer Ecosystem challenge, and ranked 4th in voting results. I’m overall happy about this. This project is also the most advanced one. I have worked on it before fund 6 and, I already released usable software by the Cardano summit 2021, and has only improved since then. Now that community interest and support is there through funding I can focus on this tool a lot more.

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Demo transaction editor: Mint and distribute Cardano Native Tokens

On the Ars magna YouTube channel I uploaded a demo on how to Mint Cardano Native Tokens using cardano.el the transaction editor This video shows you how to write a complex transaction that mints two Non-Fungible-Tokens (NFTs), with its minting policy, time-lock, Metadata information and direct distribution into targeted addresses. Everything in on step, everything up for the edit. If you like this project, what it offers and roadmap, make it a reality and vote for it. Catalyst Fund 7 voting period will end soon. Help me enrich the Cardano ecosystem with valuable tools.

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Demo transaction editor: Key generation & spending transactions

I uploaded a new demo video on the Ars magna YouTube channel to demo cardano.el the transaction editor. This is a short video showing how to create new keys and their corresponding wallet addresses. Then it shows how to craft a spending transaction to move your funds out of some of your UTxOs into any desired addresses. Watch it here: This demo is now the short example on the cardano.el project page.

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Ars Magna is online

This website is finally live, a bright light emerging out of the water as this post picture. Ars magna displays a collection of my current projects, goals and challenges building on Cardano. Everything from a weak idea to a running project. It provides a constant reference of my work and is openly accessible, contrary to the proposals I write on Ideascale for project Catalyst. This website launches after lots of struggle trying to create a minimalist theme, it was an unnecessary amount of Yak shaving. Yet I did it, because I was unhappy with the available options floating around the internet. Yes, most of them look a lot better, I’m not a designer, yet they did not offer the format and structure I wanted for this site. In fact, because at this early stage the structure is not clear, I better have my minimalist version and let it grow with my needs.

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