Cardano follows the general sentiment in the market and records a slight recovery during today’s trading session. ADA may be able to profit if Bitcoin or larger cryptocurrencies continue to build bullish momentum.
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At the time of writing, ADA’s price trades at $0.45 with a 2% profit in the last 24 hours. Cardano has suffered a loss of 6% over the past 7 days.
The company behind Cardano’s development Input-Output Global (IOG) successfully forked the network’s testnet. An “important” step in the upcoming deployment of the Vasil upgrade on the mainnet.
The company called on to stakepool operators, exchange platforms, and other actors to “commence their final testing and integration processes”. Cardano, which will be launching Vasil on its mainnet in a month’s time, will achieve one of its major milestones for 2022.
According to IOG, Vasil will provide Cardano with “significant performance and capability upgrades”. The network will be able to increase its performance and throughput by providing developers with a “better experience”.
The network will also become interoperable with more functionalities such as the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which will make it easier to migrate an ERC20 token from Cardano. It could allow for the launch of new protocols and decentralized apps (dApps). IOG claimed:
The Vasil upgrade is the most ambitious program of work we’ve undertaken. All members of the community are involved. It is our primary concern to ensure that the upgrade goes smoothly and is secure.
It might be a while before these dApps become popular, as developers release tools that allow users to interact. But, there is a lot of bullish potential in the future. Sebastian Guillemot, a developer on this subject. said:
The problem with this approach is that although they are now supported at protocol level, it may take some time to build the necessary tooling. It will also require a significant change in the way wallets deal with tokens.
Cardano founders on their 2022 priority
Charles Hoskinson (CEO at IOG) spoke of the hard work that goes into the Vasil upgrade as the network moves forward. 2022 was a year of adoption and scaling up the dApp ecosystem.
Hoskinson spoke of this importance in that context when he highlighted the value of network updates, such as the Alonzo Hard fork. According to Cardano’s inventor, Vasil will see even more tangible results.
the work we’ve put in is showing – we’ve got a rapidly growing dApp and vibrant NFT ecosystem, with currently over 1,000 projects building on Cardano (…). It’s always difficult to define one key moment but the Vasil hard fork is pretty significant.
IOG will now focus on governance after these changes are made. As Hoskinson said, they will still work on updating the network, but “each year has a theme”.
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Hoskinson claimed that ultimately, the network’s potential will be realized if the use-cases and real-world value it offers to its users are provided. This goes hand in hand with having a “clear” roadmap despite the criticism about delays from certain users:
We have always pursued a defined, clearly-staged roadmap to deliver on Cardano’s capability and fulfil its long-term potential.