/biz/ - Business & Finance

Cardano
>Ouroboros proof of stake - formally verified + provably secure
>inspired much of Polkadot's BABE consensus mechanism
>designed from first principles
>90+ academic papers with hundreds of citations

>frictionless staking - no slashing lockup / minimum stake
>already has 1400+ stake pools
>decentralized governance - community makes decisions, not some foundation/random people
>decentralized treasury - allows funding of projects that provide value to Cardano/ADA
>predictable fee costs
>smooth upgrades due to modular design

>superior Extended-UTXO model
>Ouroboros Hydra layer2 - scales smart contracts / transactions
>each stake pool can run a Hydra head, 1000+ TPS per head
>1000 Hydra heads = 1 million TPS
>E-UTXO allows for safer/easier network sharding

>Plutus - functional programming language
>Marlowe domain specific language - easily build secure financial contracts
>IELE virtual machine - create dapps in any popular language
>developed Sonic - state of the art ZK implementation
>native asset standard - tokens are cheaper / simpler to work with
>network fees can be paid in other tokens (if approved by governance/liquid enough, ex: USDT, LINK)
>governance-as-a-service for projects inside/outside Cardano
>hardfork combinator - ensures safe/smooth upgrades (no accidental chain splits)

>digital identity/credential standard - Atala PRISM
>product authentication standard - Atala SCAN
>supply chain provenance standard - Atala TRACE
>meta-data standard

>transparent technology / product updates
>one of the largest communities in crypto
>formal commercial adoption strategies
>focus on developing nations - fastest growing economies, youngest demographics and the strongest need for crypto
>MoUs with governments of Ethiopia, Mongolia and Georgia
>collaborated with New Balance to provide authentication
>working with SingularityNet / Ben Goertzel (genius behind 'Sophia the Robot')
>most crypto influencers speak positively of Cardano

Cardano was built properly the first time
even Polkadot wants what they have