...and we're going to go ahead and play. Let's look at the stuff that was written down. All right, let me share my screen. All right, in the beginning, it starts with our good friend, the Cardano Ledger formal specifications. So, this is a public repo, and these are the blueprints of Cardano. So, if you're ever curious about anything in Cardano land, from the beginning with Byron, Shelley, Allegra, Mary, Alonzo, Babbage and soon to be Conway...

If you scroll down, there are seven governance actions within CIP1694. Three of these are regulating functions for the Constitutional Committee, and the other four, specifically four to six, are replications of the process that occurred here. This is defined in the update proposal of Shelley, along with some extensions for the new things you can do in Conway.

Parameter updates, which is why they're seldom done, much to my dismay, and other people's dismay as well. You know, because of that, it created an urgency to figure out a significantly better way of doing things, which is the entire point of the Conway era. What's been under construction now with CIP1694. Apparently, some people have really tried to make this an issue and argue that...

... look back at seven years of history and all the different components and compartments of the systems, you kind of have a lot of false starts and things that didn't work out as well as you'd hoped. But when you take into account and compare that to the things that did work out the way you hoped, we now have active specifications for Conway. We now have a beautiful node.

Now there's a big open question of alternative clients and blueprints. Okay, so there are some people who want to do a Rust client. I saw on Twitter there's some people that want to do TypeScript. That's great and fine, but the issue is what is the canonical Cardano. What is Cardano? Well, a major innovation that's occurring right now with the CIP1694 work, the Conway era that's being pushed out with sanchonet, is that we actually wrote the specifications for these not in a prose like LaTeX but actually in AGAD.

There's kind of like 6 major areas of concern for Sanchonet, and there's kind of a mad dash that all the developers are pushing towards to get Sanchonet to a level of functionality where people feel very comfortable playing around with it, breaking that functionality and it's rolling out a lot of new concepts. For example, this is the first release where we have an end to end active specification for all of the Ledger rules and the things that define what the Conway era is the Voltaire era is.

For example, with the Conway era, will be the very first era of Cardano to move to a full true formal specification with code extraction. So we actually have an active specification of the Voltaire Ledger logic, and we can extract from that Haskell code and compare it to the production system.

All right. Right over here. We have the release of Cardano node 8.0.0. It is a major release of the Cardona node that adds initial experimental support for the Conway Ledger era. Include some additional CLI commands, bug fixes, network configuration options, SPOs are recommended to deploy this version on all nodes.

This is a huge roll up, over 8 months of work went into Cardano node 8.0.0 For a variety of reasons, things kind of lived on different branches, and they eventually got all brought in after we did the SECP256k1 hard fork and this is the beginning of the Conway Ledger era, which means that when you look at CIP1694. It's going to be added into this family of nodes and then we can test it in pre prod.

So, this is the foundation upon which the Conway era can be pushed through. And this is where dReps are going to get registered. This is where the Constitutional Committee, all that other stuff will happen doesn't mean it goes into Cardano proper, because for that to happen, the Hard Fork has to occur, you guys have to vote on that.

...you know, let's get in there. Got the more paint on all that shit. Take that dime out of your pocket. Who are these fucking people? Uh, bless you. Any news on the New Balance partnership? Well, that concluded a long time ago. That's the oldies. Yeah, we did a pilot program with their Innovations vision and we shipped the Tangent Cart with Cardano in the Conway leather shoe. Yeah.