Cardano Simplifies Smart Contract Development with Aiken Alpha Launch

• Cardano launched the new Aiken alpha phase.
• Aiken simplifies the development of smart contracts on Cardano.

Cardano, the blockchain platform, launched the new Aiken’s alpha phase. The new update Aiken is the open-source smart contract language and toolchain, specially introduced to simplify and enhance the development of smart contracts on the Cardano platform.

The launch comes at a time when the blockchain industry is facing problems like difficulty in setting up hard-to-debug smart contracts, a low level of blockchain interaction, and poor interoperability. Cardano’s Aiken solves these challenges and simplifies the development of smart contracts.

Plutus, the smart contract platform of Cardano, is challenging to use in other languages for the off-chain code, and teams cannot work with their usual tools or languages. But Aiken leverages IOG research on Plutus, focuses on on-chain code, and simplifies the integration into any off-chain infrastructure stack.

The added advantage of Aiken’s solution is that it is easy to learn. Smart contracts are purely functional and strongly typed. It has state-of-the-art features and also optimized for the developer experience. It provides effortless integration with other tools and languages. Moreover, the tooling modularity can be used for each specific need.

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