Adrestia: Gateway to the World

Personalized Addresses Anyone?

Adrestia is the goddess of revolt and vengence.

Which is rather ironic, because Adrestia here is all about building bridges. And these very important bridges allow external parties and apps to communicate with the Cardano chain.

Adrestia is Cardano’s Gateway to the World

Cardano-wallet, ReST and Graphql bring chain integration to wallet apps, exchanges and blockchain explorers. Haskell Shelley mainnet is built to be robust, so as you can imagine, it is not an easy task to build bridges to Daedalus etc. without sacrificing security and performance. Rightly pointed out by many, Adrestia is not the light of the Cardano party, unlike Goguen or Voltaire. But it remains an understated yet critical piece of the Cardano infrastructure.

The implementation of Bech32 will soon allow personal & recognizable addresses, a great boon for wider adoption of blockchain technology. Not sure about you, but I can never remember the string of 20+ alphanumeric characters for my public wallet key.

Also discussed is the possibility of “Polyglot”, meaning additional support for languages such as Javascript, Python and perhaps Rust. Currently Haskell is the only available language target.

Official Links:

Adrestia User Guide: https://input-output-hk.github.io/adrestia/

GitHub: https://github.com/input-output-hk/adrestia/