September 22 is the date of the launch of the Vasil hard fork of Cardano, 3 months after the target date

The latest update, which is the fifth for the blockchain, will include improvements to the Plutus programming language and promise greater scalability for lower fees.

Cardano has set September 22 as the date for its Vasil mainnet upgrade, blockchain founder Charles Hoskinson announced on his YouTube vlog on Friday. The hard fork was originally scheduled for June this year and rescheduled twice.

According to the R&D company associated with Cardano Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), which worked on the update, three necessary critical mass indicators have been achieved:

"1. 75% of mainnet blocks are created by Vasil node final candidate (1.35.3) 2. About 25 upgraded exchanges (accounting for 80% of ada liquidity) 3. Top 10 DApps by TVL confirming that they have upgraded to 1.35.3 in pre-production and are ready for mainnet."

IOHK wrote that, of the top 12 crypto exchanges, MEXC and Bitrue are “ready” for the upgrade, while Binance is “almost here” and Upbit, Coinbase, WhiteBit, BKEX and HitBTC are “in the works”. ".

VASIL UPGRADE: CONFIRMED DATEFollowing successful completion and extensive testing of all core components, as well as confirmation of Community readiness, we and @cardanostiftung can announce today the 22nd September for the #Vasil update to the #Cardano mainnet. $ADA1/9

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