Cardano's DApp ecosystem is booming, will Haskell be the next "MOVE"?

Adaverse Asia

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2022-10-19 07:00

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Haskell, the next thousand-dollar-an-hour programming language?

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Haskell, the next thousand-dollar-an-hour programming language?

Original source: Adaverse Asia

Original source: Adaverse Asia

On September 22, the Vasil hard fork upgrade of the Cardano mainnet was successfully activated. This upgrade has made major improvements to Cardano's custom smart contract language Plutus, so that the Cardano blockchain can do more and better. Designed to lay the groundwork for a new wave of DApps, new users, and ultimately the growth of the Cardano ecosystem TVL.

Therefore, from this perspective, most of the mainstream wallets are currently rarely compatible with the Cardano network, which is also a key development obstacle for Cardano to further expand its ecology after entering the era of smart contracts.

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Connecting Cardano's DApp ecosystem from Lace

Because of this, as Cardano's native wallet product, Lace developed by Cardano's development team IOG has obvious features:
A light wallet with the same security as the full node wallet;
transactions and payments;
Store and view NFTs;
Pledge Stake;

Interact with different DApps (every DApp launched on Lace will be carefully reviewed);Project CatalystAs an officially Cardano-endorsed light wallet, Lace intends to leverage different Cardano products to combine a range of features into a cohesive user experience, including integration with Atala PRISM for identity and personal data management, and integration with

(Cardano public funds) easy registration and voting.This will include integration with EVM sidechains to allow Ethereum developers to easily leverage the Cardano infrastructure,

Helping users and developers seamlessly migrate their assets from Ethereum to Cardano.

With the Vasil hard fork bringing Cardano into the era of smart contracts, it is expected that as more and more DApps are released on Cardano, the richness and liquidity of DApps will be greatly improved.

Therefore, with Lace, developers can quickly and conveniently access the Cardano ecosystem. For developers, the operation is simple and the functions are comprehensive, which greatly reduces the cost of learning and time.In short,

IOG aims to connect the Cardano-based DApp ecosystem through Lace, thereby building a Web3 version of Google Store/App Store.This means that Lace will become the ultimate traffic entrance, and users can view all DApps and NFTs through the Lace wallet,(DeFi, NFT, GameFi, DAO and even social, e-commerce, etc. Web3 applications), thus serving as an alternative to iOS and Android applications.

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The formation of a prosperous DApp ecology is inseparable from the core competitiveness of the public chain — being friendly to developers, whether it is lowering the threshold for new development, reserving enough forward-looking designs for new DApps, or allowing existing applications to Programs can be easily migrated (just like the rise of EVM-compatible public chains such as BNB Chain and Polygon).

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Forward-looking layered network

Today's congestion in Ethereum has proved the importance of Layer 2 for scalability, and various Layer 2 upstarts are also extremely high valuations of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.

In fact, Cardano directly chose a layered design in the initial model. Cardano was originally positioned as an open-source PoS underlying public chain based on the Ouroboros Paros consensus protocol. The system adopts a settlement layer + computing layer. The settlement layer is responsible for processing simple transfer and mining services, and the calculation layer is responsible for processing the interaction of smart contracts.

In this way, through a special layered network arrangement, the first and second layers are combined with each other, and under the premise of security, it effectively solves the "big problem" of the public chain, which is scalability:

Layer 2 (the second layer, the application smart contract layer) uses the data of Layer 1 (the first layer, the base currency layer) and provides a low-cost and high-performance DApp operating environment, and Layer 1 is responsible for verifying the calculation results of Layer 2 and providing basic support , the first and second layers are organically combined, thus ensuring the safe and efficient flow of value.That is to say, Layer1 is also the security layer and settlement layer of Layer2—— Bearer guarantees the security of Layer 2 and is responsible for the value settlement of the entire network, while, so that assets can flow freely, safely and efficiently between the first and second floors.

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General purpose functional programming language Haskell

At the same time, the programming language can reflect the core tone of a blockchain project.As the underlying custom language of Cardano's smart contract programming language Plutus, Haskell can be said to be born for DApps.

The core is around the two key words "portable" and "safety":It provides a theoretical framework for describing and evaluating functions, where

Each function is a function in the mathematical sense with a high degree of security.

In Haskell, functions perform low-level tasks and specify the tasks that the program needs to complete. At the same time, it is a statically typed language, and the code is easily evaluated during compilation, so type checking can ensure that the code is concise and clear. and correct.Compared with existing blockchain programming languages,

In this way, based on the complete and low-threshold Cardano underlying infrastructure, developers can access the Cardano EVM sidechain and develop rich DApps with very low learning costs, thereby forming a Cardano ecosystem with a hundred flowers blooming and realizing Cardano's ecological value.

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Haskell, the next thousand-dollar-an-hour programming language?

"MOVE", as the programming language adopted by the new public chain Aptos, Sui, etc., is on the list for the first time. Recently, it has become a popular fried chicken in the new public chain, and there are even tempting stories about MOVE programmers earning thousands of dollars an hour.

Even the GitHub page information of "Solana" Labs shows that it has incorporated the Move language into its own Github code base, or plans to add support for the Move language.The blockchain world is a good place for technical talents to flex their muscles.

From Solidity to Rust to MOVE today, behind it is the public chain development wave of Ethereum — Polkadot / Solana — Aptos.

As of now, Cardano's market capitalization ranks 8th in the cryptocurrency industry, with a market capitalization of up to 25 billion U.S. dollars, and if all goes well, this year's Vasil mainnet release will bring a new wave of DApps, new users, and ultimately the growth of Cardano's ecological TVL Lay the groundwork.

This means that after the hard fork of Vasil, more DApps will emerge, and industry leaders and venture capitalists will invest in Cardano and launch their projects - which will directly lead to a large number of recruitment opportunities that understand the Haskell programming language.Overall,

As Cardano advances in depth like the smart contract era, the demand for Haskell expertise continues to increase, and the salary of Haskell developers is also destined to maintain a steady increase.

And in data-intensive industries like finance, medicine, and biotech, Haskell is really useful — the expression type system and abstractions simplify big data infrastructure and make code reusable, banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions are following Haskell is widely used in client projects.

At the same time, as of 2022, there will be only a handful of Web3 developers using the Haskell programming language, but Haskell plays a vital role in producing high-quality software, and mastering additional Haskell will undoubtedly make it easier for developers to stand out.So even from the perspective of development of career opportunities for developers,

Haskell might not be the next "MOVE" opportunity worthy of developers' attention, and the next key opportunity for developers to earn thousands of dollars an hour.

As Cardano's global incubation investment fund, Adaverse, like Lace, also relies on Cardano's official team endorsement support:

In short, Adaverse aims to help developers save the heavy workload on top of Cardano's infrastructure, and fully focus on product business logic, so that development and operations can be more efficient and cost-effective, and faster with other Cardano Ecological DApp forms a synergistic effect.

At the same time, as a commercial incubation company and venture capital institution under Cardano, Ken Kodama, CEO of EMURGO, also stated that Emurgo will invest more than 200 million US dollars to support the growth of Cardano's ecology in the next three years, of which funds come from Emurgo's own capital , will be used directly in Cardano projects as well as in other networks whose products will be integrated with the Cardano network.

Among them, the developer community and DApp ecology will be the key to victory.