In this interview, Jingles, one of the co-founders of Mesh, talks about the project and how it aims to improve the developer experience within the Cardano ecosystem. Mesh is an open-source software developer kit that provides developers with the necessary resources and support to build innovative and impactful applications on the Cardano blockchain. Jingles discusses Mesh's features, the reasons for choosing Cardano, and the project's plans, such as a bounty program and improving the serialization library.

Dynamic P2P networking is an important evolution for Cardano and a further boost to the network's performance, resilience, and decentralization. It comes as a built-in functionality with node v.1.35.6 release today. The SPO community is now encouraged to test P2P functionality by updating one of their relays to use the P2P topology mode.

A set of frequently asked questions about the recent Valentine upgrade. It introduces built-in functions for ECDSA and Schnorr signatures alongside Cardano's native signature system, facilitating efficient cross-chain applications. This upgrade, requiring a focused hard fork, maintains the ledger era while expanding developer tools for secure and versatile DApp creation. It leverages popular cryptographic standards to enhance Cardano's usability and interoperability with other blockchains, ensuring high security through expert audits.

We interviewed the NEWM team, a blockchain-based project aiming to create a music ecosystem that allows musicians to own their creative content and monetize their art from conception to retirement. Including a streaming platform, music rights marketplace, micropayments, ticketing, and fractionalization of IP rights, focusing on user-friendly design and technology using the Cardano blockchain.

For the January edition of the Spotlight Article, we interviewed James Dunseith, Co-Founder of Gimbalabs.

The Hydra Head Protocol, is a layer-2 scalability solution for Cardano, enabling the creation of off-chain ledgers for more efficient blockchain use. Developed as a joint effort by the Cardano Foundation and IOG, Hydra facilitates fast, private transactions within small networks (Hydra Heads) that later settle results on the Cardano mainchain. It's designed to be isomorphic, meaning transactions within Hydra Heads have the same capabilities as those on Cardano, but without the need for stake pools, ensuring full consensus among participants. Hydra aims to improve Cardano's scalability and efficiency, supporting a variety of use cases like payments, games, and marketplaces, with a focus on adoption and integration by developers.

For the September Spotlight Article, we interviewed people from ADAO. Their mission is to build open-source tools, educational and supportive resources to empower robust, decentralized systems of collaboration and governance, starting with Cardano

In this Spotlight Article, we interviewed Ashish Prajapati, one of the co-founders of strica.io, a Cardano blockchain-focused development company, with products like Cardanoscan and Typhon Wallet.

For this Spotlight Article, we interviewed the Cardano Guild-operators, creators of tools like CNTools, gLiveView, the short 1-epoch community-owned Guild Network and Topology Updater.

For the May Spotlight Article, we interviewed Nicolas Arqueros. He is one of the co-founders of dcSpark and also a core contributor to the Milkomeda Protocol.