Everything is Fine with Vasil Hard Fork, Assured by Cardano Founder 

The Vasil Hard Fork Wouldn’t Encounter any Delays

Charles Hoskinson, the inventor of Cardano, informed the cryptocurrency world that, if no new problems are uncovered, the process leading up to the Vasil hard fork should go down without a hitch. The Ethereum co-founder followed up on a webcast from two weeks prior in which he guaranteed the Cardano community that the Vasil hard fork wouldn’t encounter any additional delays by speaking on a video stream from a cryptography conference in Santa Barbara, California.

Hoskinson reported that the Cardano testnet was hard forked to run Vasil update version 1.35 in early August. Before the updated software is implemented on the primary blockchain or mainnet, it is tested on a testnet, a sandbox environment running upgraded software, to see how decentralized apps behave. A hard fork is a large blockchain update that invalidates previously valid transaction blocks or the opposite.

Three flaws discovered during internal testing led to the release of three new versions, the most recent of which being 1.35.3. All key modifications have been tested by engineers and quality assurance companies, however, certain edge situations still require testing. Edge cases are deviations from the expected behavior of a system under circumstances that are near to its intended operational limitations. There are very few odds of something going wrong, according to Hoskinson. If no bugs are found, version 1.35.3 will most likely be chosen for the fork.

Changes to the Smart Contract Platform

Hoskinson informed the neighborhood that the project’s 700 workers at Cardano were putting in long hours. The Vasil hard fork, he continued, was particularly complex since it addressed many topics, including consensus and changes to the Plutus smart contract platform. On the testnet, decentralized apps are already operational.

Hoskinson said that a sizable amount of code has been deployed in response to people who questioned the number of decentralized apps on Cardano. Making sure all current decentralized apps will work with the Vasil mainnet hard split has been one of the concerns. He emphasized to the group that because Vasil is a hard fork, all node operators, including exchanges and stake pool managers, must update to version 1.35.3 of their software.