https://lantr.io Insights and updates on blockchain development, smart contracts, and decentralized infrastructure from Lantr Engineering https://lantr.io/blog/scalus-intersect-budget-milestone-4 Progress update on Lantr's Intersect-funded Scalus project. Milestone 4 delivers robust testing capabilities with property-based testing, in-process Cardano Emulator for JVM and JS/TS, advanced data structures, completed Rosetta blueprints catalogue, Ledger Rules Framework, and full Van Rossem intra-era hard fork readiness. Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://lantr.io/blog/scalus-authenticated-collections-benchmarks Detailed benchmarks of Merkle Patricia Forestry variants (radix-2, 16, 64), fusing optimizations, and Incremental Merkle Trees on Cardano. Includes full transaction fee breakdowns showing why execution cost is only 11% of the total fee. Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://lantr.io/blog/tdd-atdd-ai-coding-era AI makes writing code faster, but the bottleneck was never typing. TDD and ATDD have become the primary mechanism for maintaining human control over what gets built — tests are no longer verification tools, they are the specification language. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://lantr.io/blog/scalus-emulator-cardano-js-scenario-testing The Scalus Emulator brings full Cardano ledger validation to JavaScript. Run complete transaction scenarios — chained UTxOs, time-dependent unlocks, multi-party flows — from your test suite in seconds. Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://lantr.io/blog/scalus-intersect-budget-milestone-3 Progress update on Lantr's Intersect-funded Scalus project. Milestone 3 delivers production-ready transaction builder, ecosystem integrations, DApp starter kit, Yaci DevKit infrastructure, and expanded smart contract catalogue. Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://lantr.io/blog/frost-schnorr-threshold-signatures-bitcoin A step-by-step guide to FROST (RFC 9591) threshold Schnorr signatures for Bitcoin — from Schnorr basics through Shamir secret sharing to the full protocol, with worked examples. Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://lantr.io/blog/scalus-intersect-budget-milestone-2 Progress update on Lantr's Intersect-funded Scalus project. Milestone 2 delivers comprehensive documentation, design patterns, smart contract templates, and growing developer adoption. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://lantr.io/blog/cardano-budget-2025-drep-voting-decision How we vote on Cardano's 2025 budget as DReps. Balancing ecosystem funding, Catalyst proposals, and sustainable treasury spending in Cardano's decentralized governance. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://lantr.io/blog/cardano-voting-power-distribution-2025-analysis Analysis of Cardano DRep voting power distribution in 2025. See which delegates control governance decisions and how ADA delegation shapes Cardano decentralized future. Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://lantr.io/blog/cardano-treasury-withdrawal-strategy-2024 Mathematical model for sustainable Cardano Treasury withdrawals. DRep voting strategy for 2025 budget allocation and long-term ADA treasury management. Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://lantr.io/blog/cardano-fee-market-transaction-prioritisation Why Cardano needs transaction fee prioritization: Analysis of DDoS vulnerabilities, mempool congestion, and proposed solutions for fair transaction ordering. Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://lantr.io/blog/scalus-cardano-dapps-development Scalus: Build Cardano smart contracts and dApps in Scala 3 with native Plutus support. Full-stack development from on-chain validators to off-chain transaction building. Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://lantr.io/blog/bitcoin-cardano-blockchain-future Comparing Bitcoin and Cardano architectures — from proof-of-work vs proof-of-stake to UTxO models, smart contracts, and what each blockchain's design reveals about the future. Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT