In this talk from the Cardano 2020 Virtual Summit, I am explaining the design of the custom native asset functionality of Cardano (starting at 18:40min). This is based on the work published in the following two research papers at ISoLA 2020: UTXOma: UTXO with Multi-Asset Support and Native Custom Tokens in the Extended UTXO Model. Custom native assets are supported on the Cardano mainnet since the Mary hardfork that happened in March 2021.
Welcome to the blog of Manuel M T Chakravarty. I am a computer scientist with a background in programming languages, parallel programming, distributed systems, and cryptography. My current research is mostly at the intersection of programming languages and cryptography with applications to permissionless blockchains. I am also a software developer who is passionate about functional programming. I develop for macOS, iOS, and Linux. I am the principal developer of Haskell for Mac, a unique programming environment for the Haskell programming language that facilitates learning and experimenting with code. I am mostly developing in Swift and Haskell. Check out some of my technical talks (some have video links). You can find me on Bluesky (@TacticalGrace.justtesting.org), Twitter (@TacticalGrace), GitHub, and LinkedIn.