Cardano’s parent company, IOHK has announced the launch of its Marlowe playground and the winners of the Wyoming hackathon.
In the statement, IOHK has announced that it launched its much anticipated Marlowe Playground. This platform will allow non-developers to create their smart contracts on the Cardano blockchain.
The company behind the Cardano blockchain also announced the Wyoming hackathon winners, an event which was held recently. The company listed three projects from all the projects submitted that showed the best use cases for Cardano, which would help accelerate the United Nations sustainability goals.
IOHK wants to enable smart contract functionality on its platform
In its statement, IOHK said it unveiled the Marlowe Playground to create an avenue that would birth smart contract functionality on its platform. Furthermore, the firm also said it wanted non-programmers to develop smart contracts, limiting barriers to entering the Marlowe Playground.
This information means that anyone with little or no programming experience would be allowed to build and test smart contracts on the Cardano blockchain. Apart from allowing users to develop and test smart contracts, the playground will also enable them to perform simulations, verify and test smart contracts.
The release of the Marlowe Playground alpha version is a move by the company to begin delivering smart contract functions to the Cardano blockchain. In this vein, the entire process is expected to come to life starting from next month.
Product Director at IOHK, Aparna Jue, told reporters that the firm wants to use this new playground to empower the next generation of developers. IOHK wants the developers to create game-changing financial applications by reducing the limit to enter into the Cardano blockchain.
IOHK announces the winners of the Wyoming hackathon
Moving away from the launch of the Marlowe Playground, IOHK has also announced the winners of the $10,000 Wyoming hackathon. IOHK in previous weeks hosted the Wyoming Blockchain Stampede social impact challenge.
The challenge was designed to enable developers and programmers to discover the various use of Cardano to accelerate the United Nations Development goals. The major aim of the United Nations’ goal is to create financial inclusion for around 1.7 billion unbanked people across the globe.
The hackathon winner was Liqwid Finance. It created a project that will eliminate middlemen in peer-to-peer financial transactions while opening services such as credits, loans, and saving to everyone. The company said that the project leveraged its smart contract functionality to create lending markets.
The second place was taken by a project that provided a sustainable solution to industrial and hazardous waste. Wavachain, the second-place project, leveraged the Cardano blockchain to create a digital market place that will match companies creating these wastes to companies that will recycle them.
The third-place project, FundTrack, created a structure that would allow companies to track effort against cost while handling tasks. To cap off the statement, the CEO of IOHK, Charles Hoskinson, said the company received massive amounts and quality projects during the just concluded hackathon.
“Supporting grassroots innovation like this is part of the reason we founded IOHK, and we’re thrilled to be able to support these ideas on their journey to real-world adoption,” the CEO said.
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