❗🍴 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
🤯🍄 This is a major milestone and marks the final, critical stage prior to hard forking the #Cardano mainnet, on target for 12 September. $ADA
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🔬 Over the days ahead, we’ll be doing final checks and testing within a controlled environment to ensure that we are ready to upgrade the main #Cardano network. And usher in a transformative era of #smartcontracts capability.
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👉 To hear more about the final technical steps we’ll take before the mainnet hardfork, check out this clip from yesterday’s #Cardano360. 4/5
🖖 Thanks to our dedicated team & colleagues for their incredible hard work. And to all the SPOs, Pioneers and development partners – and this whole amazing community – for bringing us to this point. Nearly there now. Onwards! #Cardano $ADA 5/5
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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
The #Alonzo HFC event will be the most significant upgrade yet, laying the firmest of foundations for an exciting new era of #smartcontracts on #Cardano. Here's the moment – just minutes ago – that Sam submitted the upgrade proposal 2/6 🤘
On Sunday, core Plutus #smartcontracts capability will be deployed to the #Cardano mainnet using our unique HFC technology. Along with compatibility upgrades across the whole software stack 3/6
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
Cardano is a UTxO (Unspent Transaction Output) blockchain, which utilizes a different programming paradigm for DApps than on account based blockchains like $ETH 2/n
The specific flavor #Cardano uses is the eUTxO – or extended model which we believe offers greater security, allows for fee predictability (no nasty surprises...) and offers more powerful parallelization. 3/n
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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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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👉 Fund5 results almost in
👉 Fund6 starts next week with a special live keynote from Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles
👉 Fund6 community challenges published
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
To recap, we're building out the remaining #Goguen#Smartcontracts capability via a series of color-coded testnets, supported by the #Cardano community. We're adding new community testers as we go, steadily adding new users as we add functionality, test, iterate & improve 2/14
On Monday, we asked our #AlonzoBlue community testing team to nominate and bring new members into the program (a mix of experienced SPOs and developers) ready for #AlonzoWhite. We’ve now also invited and started onboarding these new users 3/14
🚀Cardano’s decentralization journey: D=0 on 31 March, P2P rollout begins next
💪DevNets: 1,200+ developers onboard
✔️New IOG stake delegation: community call in early April
🧐LLVM smart contracts universality = more developers on #Cardano. Early version 6 months away 😲 2/5
⛔️Alpha Frontier: towards a common certification standard for safe, secure smart contracts
😍First-ever public demo of Uniswap-type app, running in Plutus
🤓Plutus Pioneer Program. Want to learn #Plutus? Apply today!
🤖Singularitynet working on Ai domain-specific language 🔥 3/5