What is Cardano Goguen?

Cardano’s network update, Alonzo, is finally live. With Alonzo’s arrival at at 21:47 UTC at epoch 290, smart contracts – pieces of code that self execute when predefined conditions are met – can now begin to be created and deployed on the Cardano mainnet.

Smart contract deployment As of December 19, there are currently 929 smart contracts live on Cardano’s mainnet , which are mainly focused on DeFi, following September’s Alonzo upgrade. Thanks to Alonzo, developers can now create DeFi protocols such as DEXes and lend/borrow platforms on the Cardano blockchain.

Goguen era The era is named after Joseph Goguen, the US computer scientist and academic. The Goguen era represents a big step forward in capability for the Cardano network as it is designed to allow developers to create decentralized applications on top of the Cardano blockchain .