The measure, although disappointing, is taken to avoid problems and bugs that could endanger the future of the blockchain.
Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), the blockchain engineering company that developed Cardano, has announced that expected hard fork Cardano's Vasil is delayed another month.
Charles Hoskinson, one of the founders of Cardano, says that Vasil will bring a huge improvement in overall performance of the blockchain, as well as its capabilities to process smart contracts. The update was scheduled for next June 29However, after the disappointing news from IOHK, it is estimated that it will not be released until the last week of July.
Nigel Hemsley, head of delivery and projects at IOHK, has noted in a company blog post that the core team at Input Output Global (IOG), which is currently working on the upgrade “is very close to finish the main work”. However, there are still Seven errors that need to be fixed and require a lot of work. While none of them are classified as “serious,” they need to be addressed before the update is released.
“The Vasil work has been the most complex development and implementation program to date, from several angles. It is a challenging process that requires not only significant work from core teams, but also close coordination across the ecosystem,” Hemsley explains in the article.
As a result of these unresolved issues, the Cardano Foundation (the non-profit organization that oversees the development of Cardano) and the IOG team agreed to postpone the launch of the hard fork Vasil on testnet from June 20th to June 29th.
Once the testnet has been forked, Cardano-based decentralized application (dApp) developers and stake pool operators (SPOs) will have approximately four weeks “to carry out any required integration and testing work” before the Vasil hard fork goes live on the mainnet in late July.
Vasil will be the largest and most complex upgrade to Cardano since the Alonzo's release, which implemented the ability to manage smart contracts on the blockchain. This is why the IOG and IOHK team are delaying the launch of the fork, as they want to ensure that the network remains secure and avoid any potential issues in the future.
La hard fork will reduce the size of transactions, which will help improve network speed and help transaction fees virtually disappear.
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