With the launch of the Vasil hard fork on Cardano’s testnet, developers will have four weeks to test its performance before releasing it on the mainnet.
Cardano's Vasil hard fork was successfully launched on July 3 at 20:20 (UTC) on the testnet, which is a very important step for the future of the network. Since its implementation on the testnet, developers, node operators and exchanges have been working on the hard fork. They will have four weeks to test and experiment with the update., before it is launched on the mainnet.
Once launched on the mainnet, the Vasil hard fork will allow a Faster block creation and increased scalability, which will be able to take advantage of decentralized applications (DApps) currently running on Cardano.
Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), the organization that manages the operation of Cardano, explained in a tweet that, beyond performance improvements, Developers will benefit from “greatly improved scripting performance and efficiency”, as well as lower overall costs, with commissions that will be almost zero.
Vasil too will allow interoperability between Cardano sidechains, this being one of the main features that developers aim to achieve in the Basho phase; the fourth and current phase of Cardano development, which focuses on scaling and will be followed by Voltaire, whose main objective will be to develop and improve governance.
The previous phase, Goguen, implemented the launch of capabilities to deploy smart contracts on Cardano, with the Alonzo hard fork.
For its part, IOHK has made it clear that There will be no fork proposal on the Cardano mainnet until “all ecosystem participants” are comfortable with the changes and ready for implementation on the main blockchain, which should happen within the next four weeks.
Charles Hoskinson says Cardano needs more developers
With Vasil's release on track, Charles Hoskinson, creator of Cardano, explained that the organization is focused on the Creation of various working committees, such as the “governance steering committee, technical steering committee, and others related to growth and adoption.”
This is a huge amount of work, which is why Hoskinson has pointed out the Need to find new talent and add more developers to the teamHoskinson believes that “you have to allow a set of people in the ecosystem to grow and evolve to the point where those people are able to participate.”
To this end, the company has announced the creation of a registration website so that anyone who wants to be part of the organization, contribute or become a member, has a simple and accessible way to do so.
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