Cardano’s IOG provides overview of how far Vasil Hard Fork has come
On July 3, IOG teams hard forked the Cardano testnet to Vasil functionality. Both exchanges and SPOs (stake pool operators) were said to need at least four weeks for testing, which puts the last week of July as the tentative date for Vasil’s mainnet launch.
After the testnet hard fork announcement, work continued in earnest, starting with the initial node v.1.35.0. The IOG teams progressed to working on node v.1.35.1, which fixes an issue with the snapshot replay. Cardano testnet explorer and other dependencies also saw upgrades following the new node.
Work has also progressed on the maintainability of pipelining and the addition of tests for increased confidence and prevention of regression.
Currently, IOG reports in its weekly evaluation report that it is working on the upcoming release of node v.1.35.2. This version hopes to bring improvements and fix bugs found in the previous node versions during Vasil testing.
This follows as teams continue to test Vasil’s functionality, working closely with DApps and Cardano-based projects. Plutus V2 testing is also continuing using the Vasil devnet while the V2 cost model will soon be restored to the Cardano testnet.
Currently, 1,040 projects are building on Cardano, while 92 projects have recently been launched on Cardano. The number of NFT projects is at 6,304, while Cardano native tokens stand at 5.5 million. Plutus scripts were at 2,929, while Github commits totaled 2,632 for the week.
Blueshift announces a bridge
Blueshift, a Cardano-based DEX, has announced a bridge that allows users to move assets from Cardano to Milkomeda directly from its interface.
Milkomeda, a sidechain protocol that allows Ethereum DApps to function on Cardano, launched in late March.
Cardano’s Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) alpha sidechain remains in development, currently in the testnet. The permissionless sidechain will allow developers to write Solidity smart contracts on Cardano and create EVM-enabled DApps and ERC20-enabled tokens while enjoying many benefits of Cardano.
