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ALONZO UPDATE: We’re delighted to announce that we have now successfully spun up #AlonzoPurple and have today begun the new user onboarding process👍 💪
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$ADA #Cardano @CardanoStiftung @Cardano @emurgo_io @IOHK_Charles

This is an exciting and important next step in the #Alonzo journey. In fact, the #Cardano journey. With the support of our OG community testers on the Blue & White phases, #AlonzoPurple will be the first fully public Cardano testnet to support #smartcontracts 🚀
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It's an important moment, marking significant progress in the rollout of #smartcontracts on the #Cardano mainnet which is targeted for the end of August/early September.
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Our community has been central to the progress made so far. We have now invited the 150+ strong test team to join the new #AlonzoPurple network and a new Discord channel.
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In addition, we are today extending a priority invitation to 300 graduates from the #PlutusPioneer program, our developer education course training 000s of developers to code #Plutus #smartcontract.
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Once the initial #AlonzoPurple team has been successfully onboarded (kick-off call Monday), we’ll hard fork the network and open #AlonzoPurple to any developer who wishes to join.
6/12

We have already been engaging with a number of exchanges on #AlonzoWhite. With #AlonzoPurple we’ll broaden this further, adding more exchanges. This integration work – being driven by a @CardanoStiftung integration team led by Mel – is crucial to success.
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We want to ensure as many exchanges as possible are ‘Alonzo HF-ready’ when we hard fork the network, to ensure that their customers maintain uninterrupted deposit/withdrawal access to their $ada and do not have to wait for this to be sorted out afterwards.
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So getting these folks on board promptly and integrating will be a major focus this month. We’ll publish a page next week so you can keep track of this exchange integration work. And see when YOUR preferred exchange is Alonzo ready 👍
9/12

And remember join us the end of next week for the mid-month update. We'll share more updates on where things are at and share details on the huge amount of work going on. And we'll have those latest tentative #Alonzo HFC dates! 😃
10/12

So #Alonzo progress is very good. We still have a way to go. We expect more bugs and may yet encounter bumps in the road. That is what a testnet is for. And there is still plenty of integration, testing and ongoing optimization to go.
11/12

But we’re on track and feeling good. And we have an incredible @Cardano behind us, alongside us and cheering us on And a truly exciting future, just around the corner.

Let’s go... #Cardano
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