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>Million-dollar baby: Project Catalyst DAPP developer Fund 4
>https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/02/12/our-million-dollar-baby-project-catalyst/
>$450,000,000 On-chain Treasury for Funding DAPP developers
>$1,000,000,000+ in funding will be available in the future
>$1,000,000 Round 4 underway now -- focus to DAPP devs. Full Daedalus Integration for Voting this Round!
>10 total rounds of funding to happen this year

>Decentralized Identity - Cardano's Atala PRISM
https://www.atalaprism.io/

>Atala PRISM Demo
>https://youtu.be/wemcgPA3IPQ

>Cardano to onboard 5 million people
>https://youtu.be/l09YHErt90c

>Native Tokens
https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/02/04/native-tokens-to-bring-new-utility-to-life-on-cardano/

>ERC-20 Converter:
https://blockchain.news/news/cardano-erc20-converter-cross-chain-communication-extended-interoperability
>Video Demo (start at 10:20)
>https://youtu.be/e_C90pUrfKs?t=620

Smart Contracts in April
>Solidity, Javascript to Marlowe, Drag & Drop via Marlowe, Hardcore Haskell
>Solidity Smart Contracts 100% Ethereum compatibility via Cardano's KEVM
>Drag and Drop smart secure formally verified smart contract creation via Marlowe
https://alpha.marlowe.iohkdev.io/#/

The market is waiting to be captured.
Intro to this video (first 2 minutes) ...provides high-level context preview for the next section on multiple programming language support:
>https://youtu.be/GJANeEkj408

Multiple Programming Language Support for Smart Contract Creation
>https://youtu.be/k8a6tX53YPs

>Solidity (KEVM)
>C
>C++
>C#
>Javascript
>PHP
>Swift
>.NET
>Objective-C
>Rust
>Scala

Solidity:
https://developers.cardano.org/en/virtual-machines/kevm/about/devnet-skill-set/

Marlowe:
https://alpha.marlowe.iohkdev.io/#/blockly

Plutus:
https://playground.plutus.iohkdev.io/

The future of DeFI requires formal verification (start at 33:00)
>https://youtu.be/lj9SlvOIBgU?t=1980

Media Channels that Cover Cardano:
>https://www.youtube.com/c/IohkIo/videos
>https://www.youtube.com/c/charleshoskinsoncrypto/videos
>https://www.youtube.com/c/CryptoCrowOfficial/videos
>https://www.youtube.com/c/KaizenCrypto/videos
>https://www.youtube.com/c/bigpey/videos
>https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCryptoviser/videos

Projects Coming to and Moving to Cardano
>SingularityNET moving to Cardano and fully focus on Expansion into Cardano - ETH token to have low importance
https://singularitynet.io/

>DNATags™ full conversion to Cardano
https://apnews.com/press-release/accesswire/technology-business-ho-chi-minh-city-financial-technology-ho-chi-minh-9d0cf712d9ad6af0bd918ae63b64c8eb
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dnatags-tm-convert-ethereum-solidity-140500242.html

>Celsius Network to Cardano - Losing Millions of USD each Year in ETH Fees (start at 26:15)
>https://youtu.be/75mjfCNdGnk?t=1575
https://celsius.network/
https://medium.com/daily-highlights-crypto-analysis-news/celsius-network-announces-plans-to-add-cardano-ada-to-its-supported-cryptocurrency-deposit-list-f60621c18bb
https://cointelegraph.com/news/celsius-ceo-thinks-ethereum-could-lose-its-market-dominance-if-this-doesn-t-happen

>BeefChain (only USDA approved blockchain for tracking Beef & Sheep - Multi-billion dollar food-traceability market in the US)
https://beefchain.com/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminpirus/2019/04/25/beefchain-receives-first-usda-certification-for-a-blockchain-company/?sh=2445651d7607
https://coingeek.com/beef-tracking-gets-easier-as-beefchain-receives-usda-certification/
https://www.ledgerinsights.com/proof-of-steak-blockchain-food-beef-traceability/

>Stablecoin AgeUSD algorithmic stablecoin
https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2021-02-05-building-ergo-how-the-ageusd-stablecoin-works/
https://cryptoslate.com/emurgo-ergo-and-iohk-announce-ageusd-the-first-stablecoin-that-will-come-to-cardano/
https://decrypt.co/40264/cardanos-stablecoin-will-be-better-than-makerdao-says-hoskinson

>>28144628
Believe the science
https://iohk.io/en/research/library/
Believe the development velocity
Believe the projects moving to Cardano
or don't, and post your bleeding wojak in april
>>28138052
here's a video for you OP.
https://youtu.be/LYS9sUP0BoI