Cardano Vasil Hard Fork Postponed to Allow for More Testing – Recent news revealed that the core Input-Output Global (IOG) team had agreed to postpone sending the Vasil hard fork update proposal as previously stated. IOG is the group responsible for facilitating a Cardano Testnet upgrade. The team made a suggestion that the delay was caused by seven unresolved defects, none of which have been classified as severe.
The decision to delay the hard fork was made after the core team’s end-of-week evaluation call, according to a blog post from June 20. The post stated that the core team still needed to run a few outstanding items to make sure everything is functioning as planned, despite the fact that the team had completed 95% of the Plutus V2 test scripts.
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The post added:
“We have decided that a few more days will be required for this. As a result, we will miss our previously stated goal date of June 29 for a mainnet hard fork.”
The IOG team claims in the blog post that the work on the Vasil hard fork is the “most complicated program of development and integration” it has undertaken to date and that it also needs close ecosystem coordination.
The final choice to hard fork the Cardano Testnet will be taken after consultation with “members of the SPO and DApp development community,” the blog post states.
Noted in the post:
“The end of June has been set as the new target date for the hard fork of the testnet by IOG and the Cardano Foundation. We will then provide exchanges and SPOs four weeks to conduct any necessary testing and integration tasks. There is no need to rush this because it is only reasonable. Therefore, the working hypothesis should now be that a Cardano mainnet hard fork will take place during the final week of July.”
The IOG team stated that the decision had been made to ensure that deployment was done properly, while acknowledging that the announcement of the hard fork delay is likely to disappoint some.
Supporters of Cardano believed that the hard fork would enable the ADA token to surpass the $1 threshold by the end of June. The token’s price has fluctuated between $0.51 and $0.46 since the announcement, nevertheless.
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In the meantime, the IOG team issued a warning: “In software development, there can be no absolute dates.” The core team emphasized that if extra time is still required, the developers will be very comfortable with this.
