New Cardano Roadmap Puts March 2021 Date For Goguen Mainet Rollout
IOHK fired up the Cardano community by releasing details of the Goguen roadmap yesterday. After the successful rollout of Shelley, many look to Goguen as the final hurdle before challenging Ethereum on level ground. The roadmap puts the Goguen mainnet launch at around March 2021. Considering the frequent delays to Shelley, this represents an ambitious […]
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At yesterday’s Cardano 360 event, IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson gave an update on the long-awaited Alonzo upgrade. Due to stress testing and exchange integration, Hoskinson expects a rollout in mid-August. IOHK had previously penciled in a date of the end of March 2021 for this to happen. A five-month delay hasn’t gone down well with […]
IOHK is planning a "smooth upgrade path to Goguen." IOHK, the development arm behind Cardano, recently announced a new hard fork of the protocol scheduled for mid-December. Kevin Hammond, a software engineer at IOHK, revealed this week that Cardano will undergo a hard fork later this month as part of its transition to the Goguen development era. Although most observers associate hard forks with trauma, Hammond said that these events are handled much differently on Cardano:“[...] Cardano handles hard forks automatically, without stopping block production. This gives a uniquely smooth....
In the past week, Cardano price surged by more than 100% and overtook Bitcoin Cash to become the sixth-largest cryptocurrency. The price of Cardano (ADA) rose more than 100% in the past week as it overtook Bitcoin Cash (BCH) to become the world’s sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.There are two major factors behind ADA’s strong upsurge throughout the past several weeks. First, most major cryptocurrencies saw large rallies following BTC’s uptrend to $36,400 and Cardano has some important network upgrades lined up in 2021.ADA/USDT daily price chart (Binance). Source:....
Smart contract deployment picks up the pace on Cardano’s testnets for the Alonzo, as project leadership says progress is still on track despite delays. The Cardano network is in the watershed phase of its network development and upgrades. The ongoing phase of the protocol’s roadmap is the Goguen phase, bringing smart contracts to the network. This is the third phase of the roadmap after Byron and Shelley. The Goguen phase was split into three stages, Allegra, Mary and Alonzo.The Allegra update went live on December 16 last year, and the Mary update was deployed on the mainnet on March 1....
Cardano’s Mary upgrade and token gains are poised to compete with Ethereum, while metrics suggest that Ethereum is still king. The Cardano Foundation's coin ADA, hit its all-time high of $0.97 on Feb. 12, having started the year trading at $0.18, thus entailing 438% gains year to date. Apart from the macro trends in the cryptocurrency industry driving up the price of flagship assets, such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) translating to other altcoins, such as LINK, DOT, etc., Cardano’s growth could also be attributed to the network updates that Cardano has been running on its blockchain....