Fork of July: Cardano Vasil upgrade successfully launched on testnet

Once the Cardano testnet hard fork is complete, all that remains is to fork the mainnet, which will arrive in about four weeks or when the developers will have had enough time to prepare their tools for the upgrade.

The highly anticipated hard fork of Vasil has been completed on the Cardano testnet, bringing it one step closer to its mainnet reality and promising vast performance improvements.

Project developers, Stake Pool Operators (SPOs), and exchanges are now encouraged to deploy their work to the testnet to ensure integrations run smoothly when the mainnet gets the Vasil treatment in about four weeks.

We are happy to announce that today at 20:20 UTC, the IOG team successfully forked the #Cardano Testnet. This is an important next step in the journey towards upgrading Vasil on the mainnet.

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Once completed on the mainnet, the Vasil hard fork will enable faster block creation and greater scalability for decentralized applications (DApps) running on Cardano. Input Output HK (IOHK), the organization that produced Cardano, said in a tweet on Sunday that in addition to performance improvements, developers would benefit from "significantly improved performance and scripting efficiency" and lower costs. reduced.

Vasil will also enable interoperability between Cardano sidechains, one of the main features the developers intend to launch in the current basho phase of blockchain development. Basho is Cardano's fourth development phase which focuses on scaling and will be followed by...