MAYZ - Whitepaper V2
  • INTRODUCTION
    • What is MAYZ?
    • Why MAYZ?
    • How Does MAYZ Work?
      • Types of Members
      • Fund Creation Process
      • Escrow Service
    • Protocol Path
      • MVP
      • Release 1: Full Cardano
      • Release 2: Cross-Chain Goal
    • Token Types
      • MAYZ Utility & Governance Token
      • Fund Token
    • Tokenomics
      • Total Distribution
      • Vesting Schedule
  • MAYZ PROTOCOL
    • Technical Document
      • General Aspects
        • Mutual Funds
        • Liquidity Pools
      • Purpose of MAYZ Protocol
      • MAYZ Holders Community
      • Protocol Contract
        • Definition
        • Functioning
      • Fund Contract
        • Definition
        • Functioning
      • ADA/LP Swap Contract
        • Definition
        • Operation
      • Escrow Agreement
        • Definition
        • Operation
      • Investment Unit, LP and uLP Token
        • Definition
        • Decimals and fractions
        • Recommendations
        • ADA in the Investment Unit
        • Investment Unit, LP Token and uLP Token Value
      • Deposits in the Fund
      • Withdrawals from the Fund
      • Fund Re-Indexing
      • Commissions
        • Payment of Commissions
        • Charging Commissions
        • Recovering Fees
      • UTxOs of Deposits in the Fund
      • Oracle Contract
  • Cardano Fund
    • What is Cardano Fund?
      • Cardano Fund
      • Passive Investment Strategy
    • Why Cardano Fund?
      • Cardano Fund Vision
    • How Does the Cardano Fund Work?
      • Spects
      • Where to Start
  • MAYZ
    • Development Roadmap
    • Meet the Team
    • Funding Strategy
    • ISPO
    • Knowledge Base
      • Why Cardano?
      • What is a smart contract?
      • What is an Index?
      • What Is a Blockchain Oracle?
      • What is a Cross-Chain Bridge?
  • Links
    • Website
    • Twitter
    • Discord
    • Medium
  • BRAND KIT
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Why Cardano?

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What makes Cardano such a timely investment?

Blockchain technology is in its very first years of development, and adoption is growing exponentially. With the rise in economic destabilization, the threat of extended war, and the weaponization of the current financial system, new financial infrastructure will find an opportunity to gain market share over the next few years.

While Bitcoin started the cryptocurrency revolution and Ethereum introduced Smart Contracts, Cardano is leading the Third Generation Blockchain, aiming to solve scalability, interoperability, and governance matters.

Cardano is a proof-of-stake, sustainable and open-source blockchain with a big focus on interoperability, security, and scaling using a solid foundation of peer-reviewed data. Cardano is one of the few blockchains with concrete community building. Currently has more than 21B Market Cap and millions of users worldwide. Led by Charles Hoskinson (co-founder of Ethereum), it has followed a path of peer-reviewed research and updates, unlike other Blockchains' “move fast and break things” style. Cardano's growth will depend on solving scaling solutions.

Cardano Ecosystem

Alonzo hard-fork was implemented on Cardano last year, allowing Smart Contracts. Hundreds of new Defi (Decentralized Finance) projects started to build on Cardano. Lending/Borrowing, Swaps, Launchpads, Stablecoin protocols, Oracles, Synthetic Assets, Insurance, Marketplaces, Data, Decentralized Exchanges, Metaverses, Play to Earn, and NFT projects are some of the areas and projects that are building on Cardano. Also, Layer 2 solutions and interoperability projects like Bridges and Converters.

We are watching the very first stage of an ecosystem that will create a lot of richness, solutions, and value for the world.

Ultrascalable Cardano

The explosive growth in Defi Smart Contracts on Cardano has led to congestion on the network. This was anticipated and prepared for in the long-term roadmap of Cardano. With the last Vasil Hardfork implementation, we enter the fourth Cardano era, called Basho, focusing on scalability. The Cardano Foundation is now focused on bringing scaling solutions, including increasing the block size and Layer 2 solutions like Hydra and ZK (zero-knowledge) rollups.

Vasil Hardfork and Hydra are massive innovations that are allowing Cardano to support 2 million transactions per second and solve many of the challenges Defi projects and dApps on Cardano used to have.

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