Anyone can now build smart contracts for Cardano with Marlowe toolkit

Input Output Global, Inc. (IOG), a software research & development company, launched Marlowe, a smart contract solution for Cardano development, at an event in Lisbon today. Marlowe's open source toolset empowers anybody, whether they’re seasoned enterprise developers or community members with limited coding experience, to develop applications on blockchain. Marlowe's launch represents a significant step forward for mainstream blockchain adoption.

After successfully completing a security audit by an external firm, Marlowe offers the community an easy, efficient, and safe smart contract and decentralized applications (DApps) development toolset. Creating smart contracts in Marlowe doesn’t require specialized programming skills.

IOG developed Marlowe to introduce greater efficiency in the smart contract and DApp design and rollout process. Featuring reusable and customizable templates, a built-in simulator to test contracts before deployment, easy setup and example applications, and powerful APIs, builders need only focus on workflow and business logic.

As part of the launch, IOG is collaborating with TxPipe to offer access to Marlowe Runtime with no set-up and just a few clicks with Demeter Run. Demeter Run is a cloud-based platform that allows for access to Cardano blockchain infrastructure. This means that developers can take full advantage of Cardano’s blockchain technology without having to set up and maintain their own infrastructure.

This ecosystem of easy-to-use tooling gives those community members with a vision for a smart contract use case or dApp the perfect means to design and implement their solution. With a comprehensive set of tools that includes support for JavaScript and Haskell, integration with Blockly, and fast and easy deployment on a cloud service or local host, anybody can realize the power of smart contracts on the Cardano blockchain.

Lisbon is a significant hub for blockchain in Europe. Marlowe’s mainnet launch event took place as part of the Smart Contracts meetup at Poolside, Lisbon’s web3 hub, gathering local developers to advance use cases and development goals for smart contracts.

Omer Husain, Head of Product and Tribe Lead for Marlowe said: “Launching Marlowe on mainnet took extensive work from our team and our partners, and I’m fascinated to see how the community will take it and run with it to bring their dApp ideas to life on Cardano.

“We have strived to make a platform that is as easy, efficient, and secure as possible, that opens the gates for developers with amazing ideas to more easily realize the potential of their innovation.”

Tim Harrison, VP Community & Ecosystem, said: “The launch of Marlowe is a significant step towards empowering anybody, from a developer to a community newcomer, to add to the ever-growing Cardano ecosystem with innovative dApps.

“We’re also delighted to partner with respected projects like Demeter Run, with their TxPipe platform helping to add even more functionality to Marlowe, further empowering developers in their deployments.”