Hoskinson anticipates no further delays
According to Github data shared by cardano update, Cardano node 1.35.3 has been released. As reported by U.Today, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson, commenting briefly on Vassil, mentioned the new node v.1.35.3 as a possible candidate for a hard fork. Hoskinson also said that he “doesn’t anticipate any further delays until something new is discovered.”
As stated in the developer notes: “Node 1.35.3 fixes some important issues with previous versions of the node and provides some CLI enhancements. The node provides full Vasil-era capabilities.” It was also noted that “None of the (known) issues were considered to be blockers for the mainnet hard fork as they would be addressed in future releases.”
The IOG team hard forked the Cardano testnet for Vasil functionality on July 3. Following the announcement of the testnet hard fork, development proceeded with Initial Node v.1.35.0. After the bug was found the IOG teams started working on nodes v.1.35.1 and v.1.35.2.
In late July, during the Cardano 360 event, Kevin Hammond, IOG’s technical manager, stated there could be a few more weeks of delay without stating a specific date for the release. This, he says, was necessary for further testing and ensuring a smooth process.
The much-awaited Vasil hard fork is one of the most significant updates for Cardano yet. This is because Vasil expects to bring significant improvements to Cardano and its Plutus smart contracts.
Here’s Cardano’s main value driver per ADA whale
For the Cardano-focused Twitter account, ADA whale, what drives value in ADA may not be TPS (transaction per second) or DeFi TVL (total value locked) but rather the “main value driver for ADA is the fact it plays a critical role in a digital economic network adopted by >1m people who trust the network’s security, yield, monetary supply, growth prospects and will therefore accept it as a (digital) medium of exchange.”
Cardano was described as “aggressively priced” in a recent market report by Messari.
