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Most of their development is enabled via partnership. In-fact smart contact and new hard fork is result of partnership - https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/05/12/developers-add-muscle-to-plutus-smart-contracts-on-cardano-for-defi/ https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/05/12/developers-add-musc...