Overview
Cardano Media Taiwan is a free news site that publishes blockchain coverage in Traditional Chinese, the written form used in Taiwan. Readers get ecosystem headlines, weekly summaries of engineering work, and beginner explainers without having to read English. Every translated article ends with a link back to the English piece it came from, so the original is always one click away1.
The site is published by Purchains Labs, a small Taiwanese team that also runs Chinese-language Cardano groups on Telegram, Facebook, and YouTube. Coverage stays on Cardano: protocol upgrades, governance votes, wallet releases, and funding news, much of it drawn from official ecosystem publications such as Essential Cardano and carried across in full23.
Key Features
- Cardano news without the language barrier. Articles are written in Traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan, so Mandarin readers can follow protocol upgrades and governance decisions without translating English posts themselves1.
- A weekly recap of what got built. The site republishes Cardano's weekly development report in Chinese, covering ledger changes, wallet updates, developer tooling, scaling work, and treasury spending decisions2.
- Sources you can check yourself. Each translated article closes with a link to the English publication it came from, so a reader can compare the wording or carry on reading in the original23.
- A live view of the network. A separate page reports the ADA price, how much of the supply is staked, and how far the current epoch has progressed, using data credited to the CardanoScan explorer. An epoch is the roughly five-day cycle Cardano uses to pay out staking rewards4.
- Free to read, no account needed. Every article is open, and the archive is grouped under headings for Cardano, education, news, and events1.
What to Expect
You land on a scrolling feed of article cards, each carrying a headline, a short summary, a publication date, and the writer's name. The interface is Chinese throughout, including the menus and category labels, so an English-only visitor will need a browser translation tool to move around. Anyone who reads Mandarin will find it plain and easy to scan, with a dark mode toggle and a comment thread under each piece.
Two formats do most of the work. The weekly development report is a structured rundown of engineering progress across the ledger, wallets, developer tooling, and governance. The community digest is a broader roundup of ecosystem announcements, from grant programmes to testnet launches. Both are translations of English originals and both name their source at the foot of the page, which makes it easy to verify anything that matters23.
A separate tab tracks the network itself alongside the team's own stake pool, listed under the ticker DDOS, with its block production and pool history shown in full45. Delegation is kept out of the editorial pages, so the reading experience is not built around a pitch.
Publishing runs on a roughly weekly rhythm, which makes the site a periodic catch-up rather than a live news wire. The value it adds is the translation layer: readers comfortable in English are better served by the original ecosystem publications, while Mandarin speakers get the same material without the extra step. English-language alternatives are listed in the directory's Cardano news outlets category.
