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LAUNCH CONFIRMED: Today, around 17:26 UTC we successfully submitted an update proposal to the
#Cardano
mainnet, to trigger a hard fork combinator event on Sunday 💪🙌
#Cardano
$ADA 1/6
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!: We can confirm that the
#Cardano
‘Mary’ protocol update was successfully applied to the
#Cardano
mainnet tonight at 21:44:51 UTC via a managed hard fork combinator event.
Welcome to the beginning of an exciting new multi-asset era on
#Cardano
$ADA 1/4
HARD FORK SUCCESSFUL: Delighted to report around 19.44 UTC today we successfully forked the
#Alonzo
testnet to the new
#AlonzoWhite
node. The new network is happily making blocks already. 1/5
IMPORTANT THREAD: Over the past 24 hours we have seen a lot of social media speculation (and let's face it, outright FUD & misinformation) over Cardano’s ledger approach and specifically ‘concurrency’. Let’s clear this up.
#Cardano
$ADA 1/n
So there we have it. Since c. 20:20 UTC today, the
#Cardano
Testnet now officially supports
#Plutus
#smartcontracts
. Final testing & integrations ahead. SPOs will now upgrade their mainnet nodes. Then next stop… mainnet upgrade. Still on track for 12 September. Onward! $ADA
VASIL UPGRADE: DATE CONFIRMED 💪
Following the successful completion & extensive testing of all core components, plus confirmed community readiness, we along with
@cardanostiftung
can today announce 22nd September for the
#Vasil
upgrade on the
#Cardano
mainnet. 🧵
$ADA
1/9
#CardanoSummit2021
- The world comes together on
#Cardano
!
One week from now, IOHK &
@Cardano
teams & the global community will gather for the biggest
#blockchain
event ever.
Join us for a mix of virtual and live events from around the world👇
It’s happening.
We’re targeting 12 September 2021 for the ‘Alonzo’ upgrade, bringing smart contracts to Cardano via a hard fork combinator (HFC) event.
Find out more about the journey to a new era of smart contracts, DeFi and more for
#Cardano
$ADA
#Vasil
mainnet HFC event successful!🍾
We’re happy to announce that today, at 21:44:00 UTC, the IOG team, in collaboration with the
@CardanoStiftung
, successfully hard forked the Cardano mainnet via a HFC event, thus deploying new
#Vasil
features to the chain.
🧶1/5
NEW BLOG: Years of hard work have brought us here. And today, as we prepare to deploy
#smartcontracts
capability to
#Cardano
,
@timbharrison
takes a moment to reflect on how far we have come. And the promise that lies ahead.
#Cardano
$ADA
NETWORK UPDATE: Today, we have proposed the next parameter update as we continue to increase
#Cardano
network capacity in line with the plan. The proposal will increase block size by a further 8KB taking it from 72KB to 80KB.
🧵⤵️
1/9
❗🍴 Today, we have just submitted an upgrade proposal to the
#Cardano
testnet to hardfork the chain into the
#Alonzo
era and enable smart contract capability. This will take effect within the next few hours. 1/5
@CardanoStiftung
@Cardano
Fresh out today
#Alonzo
rollout plan!
In our regular monthly show, we're sharing more on how
#Alonzo
will comprise a colour-coded series of testnets, gradually rolling out from TODAY with
#AlonzoBlue
#Cardano
$ADA
@Cardano
Streaming NOW on YouTube!
Later today,
@SundaeSwap
will launch their DEX on the
#Cardano
TestNet launch. We’re expecting a huge amount of interest in this highly-anticipated event, and lots of activity. This is why we are collaborating. Because we're looking to learn a lot, too.
1/8
NEW BLOG: Our incoming ERC20 converter will allow Ethereum-based tokens like $AGI
@singularity_net
to run on our proof-of-stake blockchain.
Coming soon to testnet. Find out more:
#Cardano
$ADA
@Cardano
WE'RE ON!! We can today confirm that the ‘Mary’
#Cardano
protocol update is now fully confirmed for March 1st.
Another key milestone in the
#Goguen
rollout, the update introduces native tokens & multi-asset support, bringing exciting new use cases for
#Cardano
1/3
We’re delighted to report that in the last few minutes we have submitted an update proposal to hard fork the
#Cardano
Testnet, and commence the countdown for the
#Vasil
mainnet upgrade. 🧵
1/n
D-DAY CONFIRMED: Today, we have just successfully submitted an update proposal to the
#Cardano
blockchain, handing over full responsibility for block production to the stake pool operator community on March 31st. This is what
#Decentralization
looks like. Onward!
@Cardano
$ADA
LET'S GO: We are happy to share that we have just released a brand new version of the
#Cardano
node, version,
#AlonzoBlue
2.0 to the testnet.
This is an important milestone – thanks and congrats to all the
#AlonzoBlue
team for the hard work to bring us here 🙏
#Cardano
$ADA
1/4
We’re happy to report that today at 20:20 UTC the IOG team has successfully hard forked the
#Cardano
Testnet. This is an important next step in the journey towards the Vasil upgrade on mainnet. 🧵
1/10
Today, we’re pleased to report that the IOG team has successfully tagged and released
#Cardano
node 1.35.0 which we can confirm will be the final candidate for the mainnet Vasil release.👌
🧵
1/8
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: delighted to report that since c.10 minutes ago, the
#Cardano
Testnet is officially in the multi-asset era.
At 20:20:16 UTC, we successfully forked & applied the
#Goguen
'Mary' native token upgrade. Next stop mainnet, by the end of the month👍
@cardano
Join us on Sunday 12 September for the
#Alonzo
HFC event and the start of
#Cardano
’s
#smartcontract
era.
We’ll watch the new epoch rollover together, with chat from the team about how far we’ve come and what comes next in the journey. And some special guests. 1/2
OUT NOW: Our first ERC-20 converter is now live on testnet!
@SingularityNet
#AGIX
tokens will be the first to take advantage of
#Cardano
's lower fees, higher transaction capacity, and enhanced security👇 1/4
Yesterday, we upgraded the
#Cardano
testnet, successfully deploying
#Plutus
#smartcontracts
capability. The focus now is on final component testing & exchange integrations, ahead of the
#Alonzo
mainnet upgrade, still on track for deployment on 12 September 💪
#Cardano
$ADA
JOIN US: The ‘Alonzo’ upgrade will bring smart contracts to Cardano via a hard fork combinator (HFC) event.
Find out more about the journey to a new era of smart contracts, DeFi and more for Cardano.
And when we plan to deploy...
ETHIOPIA PARTNERSHIP: Blockchain comes of age with the world’s biggest
#blockchain
deployment 📢 Tech rollout to 5 million Ethiopian students bringing unique new solution to improve educational outcomes and futures
#Cardano
@IOHK_Charles
@jjtoconnor
@DrGetahun
✍️1/3
#VASIL
UPDATE: Progress continues positively with only minor bugs remaining. Today, however, we have agreed to ensure the core dev team and
#Cardano
ecosystem collaborators have more time for testing before commencing the mainnet countdown.
More here:
NEW BLOG: With core smart contract capability now deployed, the next phase for
#Cardano
focuses on performance optimization and scaling.
Here’s how we plan to steadily increase Cardano’s capacity & throughput during 2022. And it starts right here…
NEW VIDEO: We're on the way to
#Cardano
#Alonzo
In the first of our new regular development updates,
@timbharrison
talks to the delivery team about the test net program, the rollout and more
@cardano
$ADA
The
#Alonzo
upgrade is nearly here. So we’re asking every
#Cardano
SPO community to upgrade their nodes to 1.29.0 and get ‘Alonzo ready’. We’re c. 36% today. We want to be 80%+ as we approach the HFC event. Reckon we can we get to 70% by Monday, SPO fam!? 🙏💪
#ReadyForAlonzo
As we enter the Basho phase of
#Cardano
development, we’ll be focused on optimization & scalability.
Here are some of the adjustments & innovations (11, in fact…) that will all play their part in steadily increasing capacity through 2022.
🧵Ready?
Block production is fully decentralized in
#Cardano
. Next up, full P2P network
#Decentralization
.
Great to share this next milestone – a real P2P node in action – in this visualization fresh today from our brilliant
@IOG_Eng
team 👍
@Cardano
We’re pleased to announce that after a successful
#Vasil
upgrade on the 22nd of Sept, the new capabilities (including node & CLI support for reference inputs, inline datums, reference scripts), along with a new
#Plutus
cost model, are now available on the
#Cardano
mainnet! 🎉
#Cardano
never sleeps. Neither does
@IOHK_Charles
who, right after the epic
#CardanoSummit2021
flew straight from Laramie, WY to Washington, D.C. to deliver a monumental keynote to the Government Blockchain Assoc. Plus a two hour "questions marathon" 🙌💪
With
#Cardano
now entering the Basho optimization phase, ongoing enhancements to the core node will perform a key role. We’ve packed node v1.33.0 full of new features & improvements, upping Cardano’s expressiveness & the chain’s ability to do more
#CardanoSummit2021
- The biggest online
#blockchain
event ever!
We've built 7 virtual
#Cardano
worlds on the back of a turtle😉 Join us for this unique experience & discussions about the latest blockchain innovations, Cardano news & what the future holds.
We’re releasing the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) sidechain alpha! (Now on testnet.)
Build your Solidity-based applications on
#Cardano
- a decentralized, permissionless, sustainable blockchain.
The future is interoperable.
This from
@Cardians_
is beautiful. And not even the whole story. A budding ecosystem has been working tirelessly in the background for months. Many will take a while longer to launch on mainnet. But starting tomorrow, be assured, we have an amazing few months ahead of us
#Cardano
NEW BLOG: Cardano enters the age of
#AI
as it welcomes Grace, the robot designed to revolutionize global healthcare.
#Cardano
will become a secure & private environment for Grace's AI modules.
#CardanoSummit2021
Congratulations to
@SundaeSwap
on their launch today. Due to heavy
#Cardano
network load, some users may be waiting longer for transactions to complete as a result.
This is to be expected around DEX launches & large NFT drops. Thanks for your patience during these busy periods.
Today, we are delighted to report we have successfully spun up the first testnet in our
#Alonzo
rollout.
#AlonzoBlue
is our early alpha network, providing core Alonzo-node networking capability. 1/2
Good luck to all the
@sundaeswap
team & community with their
#Cardano
testnet launch, announced for this weekend. We’ve been happy to collab with the team on their plans. You can read more here: 1/3
Who's ready to sample some flavors?🍨
We're proud to announce that the SundaeSwap Testnet Event will be going live on the Evening of Sunday, December 5th (EST)! 🎉
Read the article below for more details! 👇
NEW BLOG:
#Cardano
’s eUTXO approach to
#smartcontract
execution offers greater security, full cost predictability & no charges for failed transactions.
It's a novel approach to parallelization already being embraced by innovative
#DeFi
devs $ADA $ETH
PARAMETER CHANGE INCOMING: A few hours’ from now, a fresh network parameter update will increase
#Plutus
script memory units per transaction on the
#Cardano
mainnet from 11.25M to 12.5M – a 1.25M increase.
🧵⤵️
1/10
PARAMETER UPDATE: Today, we have commenced the update proposal process to increase Plutus script memory units per transaction on the
#Cardano
mainnet by 1.25M. This initial change will take effect at the boundary of epoch 317 on Tuesday 25th January at UTC 21:44:51 🧵↩️
NEW VIDEO: We're collaborating with
@SundaeSwap
on their
#Cardano
testnet launch, kicking off Sunday 5th December.
We caught up with Chief Information Officer, Pi Lanningham, to talk about our collab, their launch & the growing
#Cardano
$ADA ecosystem
#CardanoSummit2021
is our biggest event ever! 🎉
When? 25-26 September
Where?
#Cardano
virtual world & over 40 physical locations around the globe
Why? Be the first to hear about all the exciting news & partnerships we'll share
How to save your spot? 👉
Today, we have just released a beta version of the integrated PAB and have now invited our developer community to try it out on the Cardano testnet, put it through its paces and provide us with their feedback 👍💪
#Cardano
$ADA 1/4
What does a thriving ecosystem look like? With 100+ DApps already under active development, we're highlighting just some of the growth in our ecosystem over the next 30 days ☀️🌱 So you may ask... Who is
#BuildingOnCardano
? 👇
#Vasil
HF update📢
🏃We’re now into the final mile as we head towards the
#Vasil
upgrade and HFC event. Work is proceeding well and our operational focus remains on delivering the H/F by the most efficient route BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY to the right quality.
#Cardano
1/n 🧵
NEW BLOG:
#Cardano
’s deterministic
#smartcontracts
design removes the risk of unpredictably high fees, monetary loss from failed transactions & reduces adversarial behavior. Read more in
@polinavinovino
's technical blog
#Cardano
$ADA
ANNOUNCEMENT: To bank the unbanked we first need to connect the unconnected.
We’re partnering with
@WorldMobileTeam
to build a new mobile network, starting in Tanzania. We’re honored to premiere a special film during our
#CardanoAfrica
show, streaming now
#ALONZO
UPDATE:
We’ve had a good first week on the
#AlonzoBlue
testnet:
👍Initial SPOs and pioneers set up their nodes
👍Successfully hard-forked into
#Alonzo
era: our HFC technology performed perfectly🤘
#Cardano
$ADA
1/3
What does the world look like when everyone gets an equal opportunity to innovate, to grow, to thrive?
Join us for
#CardanoAfrica
this Thursday April 29 & learn how
#Cardano
is building fresh opportunities across the African continent:
#CardanoAfrica
countdown is ON! 6,5 hours to go! ⏰
Join us at 16:30 UTC to hear how
#Cardano
and decentralized technology will help Africa build a new future. Blockchain has come of age.
Register here
The Basho phase of
#Cardano
development is all about scaling and network optimization. The Hydra family of protocols is a key element on this steady path to increased performance and growth.
Here’s the latest on progress 👇
Announcing a landmark partnership with
@dish
, bringing the world of global telecoms and the
#blockchain
space together. It's the first collaboration of its kind, unlocking significant value for DISH's customers while growing adoption for
#Cardano
Tune in:
Not long now before the Cardano
#Alonzo
upgrade ⏰
We’ll livestream from c. UTC 21:30 today & cover the HFC event at the epoch boundary. It's still early days for our brand new ecosystem. But join us to celebrate this milestone!
Subscribe & hit the🔔
NEW BLOG: Cardano is architected with a highly-decentralized, secure network layer. And a parameterized approach that, step by step, will steadily scale to support a global user base of millions.
Today, we're starting that process...
#Cardano
Read more:
We’re live-streaming the HFC event. It's still early days for our brand new ecosystem. But join us to celebrate this milestone!
#CardanoCommunity
#Cardano
$ada
#Cardano
#smartcontracts
are coming...
We're on track to meet the projected HF dates for both testnet & mainnet
#Alonzo
upgrade, as Nigel outlined in last week update👇
A new era is set to begin on Sunday 12th September 2021 🌅 $ADA
NEW BLOG: Another important milestone for
#Cardano
as financial data powerhouse Bloomberg adds Cardano to its ‘Terminal’ real-time market information platform and leading exchange
@CoinbasePro
lists $ADA
LEVEL UP! So there we have it, 100% decentralized block production on
#Cardano
.
Thank you to each and every SPO and developer out there who has brought us here, helping build, run & grow
#Cardano
. This is a great moment. And we're still just getting started. Over to you... 🚀🧨
NEW BLOG: Just launched, a new
#Cardano
P2P testnet will drive ever greater network
#decentralization
. Working with a small group of SPOs, we have now implemented automated peer-to-peer components – to make network node connections smoother & more seamless
While you might have been taking it slow over the past few weeks, projects
#BuildingOnCardano
have been working restlessly on everything from
#DeFi
, marketplaces & DEX projects to solutions for identity, gaming, oracles, wallets and more. 1/n
Today we passed another important growth milestone for
#Cardano
, with an incredible 1M+ wallets now delegating via our Proof of Stake network 🎉
Thanks as ever to the incredible
#CardanoCommunity
for the ongoing support. Here's to the next million!👍🙏
@CardanoStiftung
@pool_pm
Wen Djed? NOW!
We are excited to announce that Djed's public Testnet is now released!
We invite you to test the platform by minting and burning $Djed on
Learn how:
$COTI
@CardanoStiftung
@InputOutputHK
Today the
#Cardano
community celebrates the birthday of Gerolamo Cardano (born, 24 Sept 1501)
Physician, mathematician & inspiration for a blockchain ecosystem!
What better way to celebrate than with a global
#CardanoSummit2021
this weekend? 🎂🥂
PARAMETER UPDATE: Today, an update proposal (submitted before the weekend) will trigger an increase in per-block
#Plutus
script memory units limit from 56M > 62M. This change will take effect on
#Cardano
mainnet at epoch boundary 328 today, 21 March at UTC 21:44:51.
1/8 🧵 ↩️
LOOKING GOOD: Last week, we shared the latest dispatch from the road to
#Cardano
#smartcontracts
in our mid-month update.
Thanks to all the community for the messages of support & for all YOUR incredible work to bring us here. 1/8
The ‘Mary’ native token
#Cardano
HFC event is now less than 24hrs away. And we’re very happy to report that we have just released our first ever multi-asset
#Daedalus
wallet!! 💪🔥🚀🍾1/3
NEW DAEDALUS: Fresh out now, Daedalus 4.0.3 brings support for native tokens, making
#Daedalus
a multi-asset wallet that enables users to send and receive native tokens
#Cardano
$ADA 🥳 1/4
ALONZO UPDATE: We’re continuing to make good progress with the rollout program and this week we’ve started onboarding new SPOs and developers to join
#AlonzoWhite
. Here’s a thread to share how we're rolling!😀👍
#Cardano
$ADA
@Cardano
1/14
Earlier today
@IOHK_Charles
appeared before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
Here's his testimony on the future of digital asset regulation
2/2 It’s still early days, with exciting times ahead. For the full story on what to expect next, check out our latest blog
Onwards!💪
#DeFi
#BuildingOnCardano
#Cardano
$ADA
#CardanoSummit2021
goes live in c.90 min!
Join us to hear CEO
@IOHK_Charles
LIVE opening keynote.
Register here and get the magic link to join the virtual world
PARAMETER UPDATE: Today, we have commenced the update proposal process to increase per-block memory units limit for
#Plutus
scripts on the Cardano mainnet. This change will take effect at the boundary of epoch 321 on 14th February at UTC 21:44:51.
1/8
NEW BLOG: Failed transaction? No problem. No fee!
#Cardano
's innovative approach to transactions effectively splits them them across two phases. It maintains fee predictability while compensating SPOs for validating. More from
@polinavinovino
#CardanoSummit2021
is coming September 25 & 26!
7 events, 20 local meetups & dozens of discussions - taking place in both physical & virtual worlds & covering all aspects of
#Cardano
universe, this is going to be our largest event ever.
Register today:
Before the weekend, an update proposal was made to increase
#Cardano
mainnet block size by 8K. This change will take effect later today at the boundary of epoch 335, Monday 25th April @ UTC 20:20:00. The current block size is 80KB, and after this change, it will be 88KB 🧵 1/5
ICYMI: Plutus Application Backend (PAB): supporting development on
#Cardano
.
We’re now in the process of integrating the PAB to the wallet backend & delivering an end-to-end environment for developers to test
#DApps
, prior to mainnet deployment.