Cardano has delayed the Vasil upgrade on its mainnet for the second time. The project’s developers want to conduct further testing before its launch, which will mark Cardano’s move into the “Basho” era.
From the Cardano Input Output (IOG) development lab the announcement of the update The launch was originally planned, but the launch has been delayed for a second time by a few more weeks. The upgrade will be carried out via a hard fork, and after a meeting held last Thursday to finalize the schedule for this fork, the developers announced that they needed to carry out further testing before launching on mainnet.
IOG technical manager Kevin Hammond explained that the delay is in place to ensure all parties, including API developers and exchanges, are ready for it.
Specifically, the developer explained that “from where they are, it may take a few weeks before moving to the actual Vasil hard fork,” noting that this “is really important because all users have to be ready to be able to move through the hard fork if they want to ensure that the process is smooth for them and for the end users of the Cardano blockchain.”
Vasil's second delay in a short time
Following the premature announcement of the Cardano update, this is the second delay of Vasil in a short time. However, the Cardano team has explained that this delay is due to the implementation of specific key tests to avoid inevitable problems, thus optimizing the update by the development team. Specifically, Hammond said they were focusing on “the authority of the evidence, getting it right and not rushing it.”
The Vasil update was initially expected to be released on June 29, but the developers delayed the release earlier than planned due to seven bugs that made it impossible to fully activate Vasil. They then indicated the end of July as a new tentative schedule, but when that date arrived they had to delay the update for the second time.
Vasil is a highly anticipated Cardano update that aims to increase the scalability of this blockchain. According to experts, this is one of the most important updates for the network since the Alonzo fork launched in September 2021, as it will allow the transition to the “Basho” era.
Vasil is key to Cardano’s safe and planned transition from the Goguen era to the Basho era, the stage of improving the scalability, optimization and interoperability of this network.
This upgrade will be activated on the Cardano mainnet via a hard fork, a backwards-incompatible change to the software used to produce and validate new blocks.
Furthermore, IOG has noted in previous statements that it is key that the different parts of this ecosystem coordinate in order to launch Vasil. In this way, the final decision to update the Cardano testnet will be consulted with the network's dApp development community, but before this, developers have to solve critical problems in testing, perform benchmark tests, and inform the community so that they can test their dApps before implementing this hard fork.
Amidst these expectations for Vasil's arrival, ADA, Cardano's native cryptocurrency, has experienced high volatility. Over the past week, the token has fluctuated between $0,45 and $0,55.
