Fund12 Results, Cardano Codex & Aiken

GM Frens,

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Project Catalyst announced Fund12 results on July 16, with 258 projects receiving a thumbs-up from the community. The previous weekend, the NuCast-led Cardano Codex hackathon recorded 400+ registrations for its Hyderabad edition. In other updates, the decentralized GPU computing network, Dedium, has gone live on Cardano. One-fourth of Cardano Stake Pool Operators (SPOs) upgraded to Node 9.0.0 this week. Let’s deep dive into these developments:

Open-source & real-world integration proposals get “yes”

Fund12 results are now in, with 258 projects winning out of 1200+ proposals. The Snek community has won big, with seven proposals getting funded (6 individual entries and one collaborative proposal. 50,000,000 $ADA will be distributed among the selected projects as per pre-defined milestones. Check the complete results here!

Project Catalyst is a community-driven innovation that supports Cardano-based concepts and impactful projects in the real world. It focuses on placing the community at the core of Cardano's future evolution and development. If you are new to the Cardano ecosystem and have a game-changing idea, the Project Catalyst Fund13 round is coming soon. Stay tuned to Project Catalyst’s X handle.

Cardano Codex Witnesses Impressive Turnouts

NucastIO hosted the second session of the Cardano hackathon in Hyderabad, with nearly 250+ Indian Web3 developers and engineers attending the event (Over 400+ registrations).  The event had insightful presentations from Nucast, Cardano Spot, Intersect, NMKR, and Trivolve Tech.

Node 9.0.0 is loading on-chain governance 🗳️
Almost 25% of Cardano Stake Pool Operators (SPOs) upgraded to Node 9.0.0 at the time of writing this newsletter.

Dedium goes live with its presale of DEDI

The decentralized GPU computing network, Dedium, raised 2.2M $ADA within 24 hours of its presale on July 18th. Check the latest stats about DEDI’s presale on Axo!

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