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History of Cardano
Cardano was founded in 2015 by Charles Hoskinson, one of the founding members of Ethereum. The development of Cardano was funded through an initial coin offering in 2017, which raised over $60 million. The first version of Cardano’s blockchain was launched in September 2017, which focused on establishing the Cardano Settlement Layer and the Ouroboros consensus algorithm. In the next phase, Cardano focused on optimizing decentralization by shifting in favor of community-run nodes. Next came smart contracts and the creation of decentralized applications, and Cardano is now in the scaling phase, which is focused on enhancing its performance and stability.