Cardano’s upcoming Alonzo update pushes ADA price despite a major delay
Cardano will strive to become an Ethereum contender if the upcoming Alonzo update lives up to the expectations of being a game-changer. The Cardano Foundation is led by Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano and also the co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain. On April 6, through his YouTube channel, he discussed Cardano’s roadmap covering the next four years in a video titled “Some Musings about the Roadmap.” In these musings, he mentioned that although the Cardano developers are working on solving the scalability issue and Cardano’s approach to it, he will only turn his attention....
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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 launched its first Alonzo smart contract testnet on May 27. On June 11, IOHK confirmed that Alonzo is now able to deploy smart contracts. More than $30 billion worth of Cardano’s ADA has been staked in anticipation of a major milestone in the network’s evolution — one that could set the stage for wider network adoption and a more considerable price appreciation for the cryptocurrency.Roughly 71.7% of ADA’s circulating supply, worth roughly $31 billion at today’s prices, have been staked across 2,665 active pools, according to data provider PoolTool. On Thursday, the price of ADA....
Amongst the madness in broader crypto, along with Cardano’s substantial volatility, the Alonzo hard fork update for ADA has sought to provide a solution to maintaining its powerhouse status, and continue to dominate the year. This solution, though, has some twists and turns that leave the bulls hopeful and patient. ADA And The Push To The Top Cardano has had an amazing run this year with the new wave of crypto bulls ready to see what ADA will become. Dubbed the “Ethereum killer,” Cardano and it’s founder Charles Hoskinson seem confident that his team will and....
On Friday, the price of the token cardano spiked over the $2 handle nearing the crypto asset’s all-time high that took place three months ago. Cardano’s price jump derived from a video announcement stemming from Cardano’s Nigel Hemsley when he explained the Cardano network would upgrade on September 12, 2021. The highly anticipated “Alonzo Purple” upgrade aims to boost the Cardano project with fully functional, advanced smart contract solutions. Alonzo Upgrade Scheduled for September 12 Cardano is looking to upgrade the network in the near future, as....
The Vasil hard fork was originally scheduled to go live in June, but teams behind the Cardano blockchain development have prioritized a smooth network transition. After failing to go live last month, the Cardano Vasil hard fork is delayed again as teams behind the Cardano blockchain development target a smooth network upgrade.Input Output Global (IOG), the organization responsible for Cardano’s research and development, released a YouTube update on Thursday on the upcoming Vasil hard fork.IOG technical manager Kevin Hammond announced that the Vasil hard fork will be postponed one more time....