Cardano has announced that it is now a member of the Linux Foundation. According to a blog post, the Cardano Foundation has joined as a gold member, becoming the only nonprofit active at this level.

Big Announcement! The #CardanoFoundation has joined the @linuxfoundation as a Gold member to enable mass innovation through open source.

Read full article: https://t.co/zGEh0qommT #OpenSource pic.twitter.com/v7h2noAsC4

— Cardano Foundation (@CardanoStiftung) June 22, 2022

As reported previously, Cardano Foundation Chief Open Source Officer Dirk Hohndel had a fireside chat with Linux creator Linus Torvalds at the Linux Open Source Summit in Austin.

We are excited to welcome the Cardano Foundation as a Linux Foundation Gold Member. Welcome to our global #opensource community @Cardano! https://t.co/0lMKPvg9Gc #Cardano #Blockchain #OSSummit pic.twitter.com/K3uQ61o22X

— The Linux Foundation (@linuxfoundation) June 22, 2022

Commenting on this event, Dirk Hohndel stated: ”The Cardano Foundation is focused on driving the adoption of blockchain technology, and we strongly believe that building a vibrant open source community around our technology is a key part of achieving that goal.” The Linux Foundation, with its outstanding track record as a facilitator of collaboration around interesting open source technology, is a perfect place for us to be.”

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is expected to appear today, June 23, before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.

Hoskinson will be providing testimony and responding to questions from members of the committee regarding the hearing, “The Future of Digital Asset Regulation.” The Committee on Agriculture oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Coincidentally, Input-Output Chief Scientist Aggelos Kiayias will also be speaking at the IEEE Conference on Dependable & Secure Computing today, June 23.

Cardano’s web3 innovations

Daedalus wallet is IOG’s full node implementation and it is a desktop application. IOG’s entire node implementation is a desktop program known as Daedalus wallet. IOG claims it is creating Lace, which it describes as a “one-stop-shop” for all blockchain operations, to make the wallet user experience simpler.

Lace is a lightweight wallet that would streamline online banking and serve as a gateway to Web 3.0. Users of Lace will be able to communicate with one another and with businesses directly, exchanging assets and data without the need for intermediaries.

At the time of publication, ADA was trading up 2.12% at $0.473.

The Cardano Foundation has joined the Linux Foundation. In an announcement released by the Cardano Foundation yesterday, Cardano stated that they have joined the Linux Foundation as a gold member. The announcement added that this makes the Cardano Foundation the only non-profit active at this level.

The Cardano Foundation also expressed its excitement to have the opportunity to work on its commitment to open-source, while also “contributing to the positive advancement of blockchain as a world-changing technology.”

The Chief Open-Source Officer at Cardano Foundation, Dirk Hohndel, sat down in an exclusive Q&A with Linux creator, Linus Torvalds, at the Open Source Summit in Austin.

Commenting on the event, Hohndel stated, “Open-source is about communities. It’s about bringing together people from different companies, countries, and backgrounds. The Cardano Foundation is focused on driving the adoption of blockchain technology and we strongly believe that building a vibrant open-source community around our technology is a key part [of] achieving that goal. “

Hohndel also stated that “The Linux Foundation, with its outstanding track record as a facilitator of collaboration around interesting open-source technology, is a perfect place for us to be.”

In addition, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, noted that “The Cardano Foundation represents a natural path to adoption of blockchain technologies to enable decentralized computing across a diverse set of applications.”

He also added that “With Dirk leading Cardano’s open-source ecosystem and the strong community already supporting this work, we’re excited to bring to bear our resources to build together into the future.”

We are delighted to announce our membership with The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source. The Cardano Foundation has joined as a Gold member, becoming the only nonprofit active at this level.

Cardano Foundation Chief Open Source Officer Dirk Hohndel spoke yesterday at the Open Source Summit in Austin in an exclusive Q&A with Linux creator Linus Torvalds. 

Commenting on this event, Mr Hohndel said:

“Open source is about communities. It’s about bringing together people from different companies, countries, and backgrounds. The Cardano Foundation is focused on driving the adoption of blockchain technology and we strongly believe that building a vibrant open source community around our technology is a key part to achieving that goal. The Linux Foundation, with its outstanding track record as facilitator of collaboration around interesting open source technology, is a perfect place for us to be.” 

The Linux Foundation’s Executive Director, Jim Zemlin, meanwhile noted that:

“The Cardano Foundation represents a natural path to adoption of blockchain technologies to enable decentralized computing across a diverse set of applications. With Dirk leading Cardano’s open source ecosystem and the strong community already supporting this work, we’re excited to bring to bear our resources to build together into the future.” 

All of us at the Cardano Foundation are excited by the opportunity to further cement our commitment to open-source through collaboration with the Linux Foundation on activities that supports our mission to drive adoption of the Cardano blockchain, while also contributing to the positive advancement of blockchain as a world-changing technology.

About the Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 1,800 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, Hyperledger, RISC-V, and more.  The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration.

For more information, please visit: linuxfoundation.org

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Cardano Foundation Chief Open Source Officer Dirk Hohndel met with Linux creator Linus Torvalds in a fireside chat at the Linux Foundation OS summit. Open-source software and principles are key parts of the Cardano Foundation’s commitment to ensuring distributed control and governance in the Cardano ecosystem. Therefore, the Cardano community regards this as positive.

Prolly nothing.

Linux meets Cardano.

Imagine cardano-node and cardano-cli being included in all Linux distributions so that anyone, any time can process transactions.

It’s coming, sooner or later. https://t.co/ABjG0jefiB

— $conrad (@conraddit) June 21, 2022

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson tweeted about the development as “good things to come.”

Good things to come… https://t.co/ZSnVIh7OIc

— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) June 21, 2022

Dirk Hohndel joined the Cardano Foundation in April 2022 with over 30 years of experience as an open-source officer. Presently, Cardano’s chief open source officer, Hohndel, is charged with the responsibility of leading the foundation’s strategy to build a third-party contributory open source ecosystem for the core Cardano Protocol.

In addition to being a Linux Foundation board director for five years, Hohndel was one of the original creators of the organization in the early 2000s.

Cardano founder set to address committee overseeing CFTC

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson will be appearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit on Thursday, June 23, at 10:30 a.m. EST.

In a separate piece of news, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson seems to be interested in the fast-food business. The Cardano founder had tweeted an image of a fast-food restaurant called “Nessies” coming to Wyoming.

A Twitter user had inquired, “Getting into the restaurant business huh?” to which the Cardano founder replied, “The town nearby my ranch doesn’t have good options.” So I’m gradually rebuilding the town’s culinary options.”

Another user had asked if the restaurant will allow payments in ADA, to which Hoskinson replied “yes.” The creator of Cardano is well known for pursuing his passions.

In March, Charles Hoskinson announced an investment in Colossal, a biotech start-up that wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth.