NFT volumes rose 328% over weekend from prior one
cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has responded to the recent growth in the NFT sector. He responded with a GIF image posted on Twitter, “Much ghost much chain”.
Cardano has often seen criticism in the past, most often that which compares it to a ghost chain.
The CardanoNFT project continues to gain traction with a new record reaching 24-hour volume of 4.4 million ADA. According to StockTwits NFT data, the NFT volume increased by 328% over the weekend compared to the previous one. Cardano also entered the top three NFT chains, bringing Immutable X to fourth place.
In a historic milestone, The Ape Society, Cardano’s biggest NFT project in terms of collection share by 24-hour volume, also reached the 10,000 ADA floor price.
First Cardano smart contract in TypeScript launched on testnet
As shared by Cardano’s focused Twitter account, ada whaleThe first Cardano smart contract fully written, compiled and serialized using TypeScript has now been launched on the ready testnet.
The Cardano blockchain was built using the Haskell functional programming language. Plutus, Cardano’s programming language for smart contracts, and Marlowe, Cardano’s domain-specific language for financial smart contracts, are both based on Haskell. Both off-chain and on-chain codes for Cardano are also written in Haskell.
In July, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson shared “the first untyped Plutus core program completely generated and serialized using only TypeScript.”
This new milestone might imply that developers may be able to write smart contracts on Cardano using TypeScript soon.
