A Rose by Any Other Name
5 min
Chapter 5 of John Greene’s “Cardano for the Masses” falls squarely in the middle of the book’s ~380 pages. At 50 pages, it is also the book’s longest chapter - and to be honest it felt like it! After four chapters of background, introduction, and blockchain basics, this chapter dives into the deep end, with detailed explanations of smart contracts, metadata, native tokens, and UTXOs.
This is important, meaty content. Smart contracts and native tokens are the flexible, functional tools that make Cardano more than just a 1-dimensional financial ledger. With them, users can do so much more than send each other money. Mint NFTs, tokenize real-world assets, and deploy tokens of your own design, for your own purposes. Fundraising,…
