Overview
Whiteboard Cardano is a YouTube channel that explains how Cardano works through short, hand-drawn videos. It has published 97 videos since 2022, on subjects ranging from wallet addresses to governance voting. The channel describes its own purpose as sharing Cardano knowledge in the most simple and understandable way it can1.
Whiteboard Cardano covers wallet addresses and how they are put together, native tokens and what separates a payment token from a utility token, NFTs, a first smart contract written in Aiken, and how delegate representatives (DReps) carry other people's votes in Cardano governance. Playlists group the governance training sessions and a recorded community meetup2. Proposals have been filed with Project Catalyst, the community funding process for Cardano, under the proposer name Whiteboard Cardano, most recently for Fund 153.
Key Features
- One idea per video. Each video takes one topic and works through it with drawings1.
- Hand-drawn explanations. Concepts are sketched out whiteboard-style, with characters and diagrams standing in for the abstract parts1.
- Governance and DReps explained. A run of videos covers delegate representatives, the people ADA holders can hand their voting power to, and what stepping into that role involves1.
- A first look at smart contracts. One of the recent uploads walks through building a first smart contract in Aiken, a programming language used to write Cardano contracts, and its title offers the walkthrough to viewers with zero experience1.
- Playlists that group the series. Separate playlists collect the DRep training run, a funding review session and a recorded blockchain meetup held in Ho Chi Minh City, so related videos can be watched in order2.
What to Expect
You land on a library of 97 videos. They are in English and use hand-drawn scenes, and the channel keeps a Shorts tab alongside its main uploads. New uploads have paused since October 2024, so the value sits in the back catalogue1.
A sensible route in is the wallet address and token explainers, then the governance videos if you want to understand how voting works. The recent uploads include one introductory Aiken walkthrough, so anyone hoping to write code will also want the fuller Cardano guides and beginner videos listed elsewhere in the directory.
This is a small community project. Whiteboard Cardano keeps a public link hub pointing at its other accounts4, links a shared Miro board carrying the channel's name5, and runs a Discord server6. Public Catalyst records show none of the completed proposals filed under its name as approved, and the most recent submission is still pending3.
