plutarch-plutus VS cardano-node

Plutarch (IP) - https://github.com/Plutonomicon/plutarch-plutus : Plutarch is a typed eDSL in Haskell for writing efficient Plutus Core validators.

Plutarch - Smart Contract Optimization for production (https://github.com/Plutonomicon/plutarch-plutus)

Also, I'd say Plutus is more complicated than Haskell, but only b/c there are so many counter-intuitive ways to do things. A big part of the problem is performance; we use tools like Plutarch to minimize overhead, but it still ends up being a problem.

I'm pretty sure that the good dApps will optimize their code to make transaction size as small as possible. This will directly lead to lower fees or more revenue for the dApp. Many dApps are already using Plutarch to reduce transaction size. It's pretty cool that Plutarch has emerged from the Cardano community and not IOHK.

-Plutarch v1.1 released https://github.com/Plutonomicon/plutarch

Cardano (ADA) – The Sustainability-Focused Blockchain

Hoskinson decided to support Ethereum classic after that and also launched Cardano.

This sluggish activity is hitting smaller cryptocurrencies like Cardano and Solana, which are seeing much slower growth than bitcoin. Trading platforms popular with retail investors, such as Robinhood, are moving to end support for trading these tokens, and the risk of an SEC crackdown has made institutional investors even more leery of them.

Cardano Node 8.1.1 is out. https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/releases/tag/8.1.1

Documentation on that can be found in https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/blob/master/doc/reference/configuring-a-node-using-yaml.md and https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/blob/master/doc/reference/cardano-governance.md.