mission oriented (DeFI, banking unbanked, Financial Operating System)
- PoS
- 150 TPS layer 1 performance, which can be optimised to 1000 TPS if needs be
- up to 1 mln TPS via Hydra layer 2
- on chain governance via Voltaire and Catalyst project
- on chain treasury system for long term financing of a Cardano project
- best staking experience in the industry, no slashing, no locking, sending funds automatically
- peer reviewed - formally verified at best crypto conferences
- already starting to work slowly on protecting from quantum adversary
- native assets that do not require smart contract (thus less buggy and faster)
- ADA is deflationary, e.g. ETH and DOT have inflation (albeit they strive to have max 2% at some point, now is it like 10%)
- ERC-20 converter
- decentralized with over 1000 stake pool operators
- IELE VM will allow smart contract developers to write smart contract is any programming language supported by k framework
- running Ethereum as a side chain to tap into liquidity and Solidity Developers
- Fund 1, Fund 2, Fund 3, Fund n to kick start projects (like Apple did back in the days)
- promoting DSLs (Marlowe, Glow) since writing secure smart contracts securely is super hard
- exceptional sidechain research, we starting to see fruits of this (Ethereum as sidechain, Bitcoin as Sidechain)
- NIPoPoWs enabled, that allows to move value between PoW chains (e.g. Litecoin) as part of Cardano's network
- superior eUTxO model but still UTxO (nice for concurrency)
- oracle pools