What's going on with the Cardano testnet and the Vasil hard fork?
The issues surrounding the Cardano Vasil hard fork have been "incredibly corrosive and damaging", according to founder Charles Hoskinson, who seeks to put the controversy to an end.
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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson continued to refute claims that the Cardano testnet is “catastrophically broken,” implying the need to finally move forward with the long-delayed Vasil hard fork.
In a Twitter thread on Sunday, Hoskinson shared his frustration with some of the videos claiming that the Cardano testnet has a "catastrophic" problem, which stems from a Friday thread from Cardano ecosystem developer Adam Dean.
The developer claimed that the testnet was "catastrophically broken" due to an undiscovered bug in Cardano's Node v 1.35.2 that creates incompatible forks - which had managed to fly under the radar in previous tests.
Following the bug, Cardano has released its new client software, Cardano Node v1.35.3, on two separate testnets.
However, Dean noted that since the majority of operators upgraded to v1.35.2 to simulate the Vasil hard fork, v1.35.3 is also "incompatible and unable to sync" with the original testnet, and both testnets are "without blocking history."
Hoskinson however argued that the coding issue found on this node version had been removed in the 1.35.3 update, sharing his frustration that further testing would cause further hard fork delays:
"We could of course, as a community, delay the launch of Vasil for a few months to retest the code that has already been tested a dozen times and is already running. That's worth- worth it for all the DApp developers who have been waiting for this update for almost a year now?"
During an Ask-Me-Anything on Friday, Hoskinson also said there has been an “unfair narrative” floating around Cardano and its testnet issues, which he called “incredibly corrosive and harmful".
"You can't confuse a failing testnet with the mainnet because testnets are built and destroyed all the time in this industry. That's what they're about. [...] way to Cardano itself.”
On Sunday, Hoskinson noted that "the reality of something so large and complex is that one can easily be trapped by...
The issues surrounding the Cardano Vasil hard fork have been "incredibly corrosive and damaging", according to founder Charles Hoskinson, who seeks to put the controversy to an end.
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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson continued to refute claims that the Cardano testnet is “catastrophically broken,” implying the need to finally move forward with the long-delayed Vasil hard fork.
In a Twitter thread on Sunday, Hoskinson shared his frustration with some of the videos claiming that the Cardano testnet has a "catastrophic" problem, which stems from a Friday thread from Cardano ecosystem developer Adam Dean.
The developer claimed that the testnet was "catastrophically broken" due to an undiscovered bug in Cardano's Node v 1.35.2 that creates incompatible forks - which had managed to fly under the radar in previous tests.
Following the bug, Cardano has released its new client software, Cardano Node v1.35.3, on two separate testnets.
However, Dean noted that since the majority of operators upgraded to v1.35.2 to simulate the Vasil hard fork, v1.35.3 is also "incompatible and unable to sync" with the original testnet, and both testnets are "without blocking history."
Hoskinson however argued that the coding issue found on this node version had been removed in the 1.35.3 update, sharing his frustration that further testing would cause further hard fork delays:
"We could of course, as a community, delay the launch of Vasil for a few months to retest the code that has already been tested a dozen times and is already running. That's worth- worth it for all the DApp developers who have been waiting for this update for almost a year now?"
During an Ask-Me-Anything on Friday, Hoskinson also said there has been an “unfair narrative” floating around Cardano and its testnet issues, which he called “incredibly corrosive and harmful".
"You can't confuse a failing testnet with the mainnet because testnets are built and destroyed all the time in this industry. That's what they're about. [...] way to Cardano itself.”
On Sunday, Hoskinson noted that "the reality of something so large and complex is that one can easily be trapped by...
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