Cardano Set To Enter The Babbage Era After Alonzo HFC Milestone
October 21 2021 - 7:00PM
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Cardano successfully deployed the Alonzo Hard Fork Combinator over
a month ago, which has no doubt been one of the most important
upgrades to happen on the network Alonzo HFC brought with it smart
contracts capability on the network and with this came
decentralized finance (DeFi) services to the ecosystem. Developers
could now develop and deploy decentralized applications (DApps) on
the Cardano blockchain. This provided a boost for the network and
Cardano continues to work with developers to get their DApps
deployed on the blockchain. After this milestone, a question on the
minds of supporters has been, ‘What’s next?’ With the Alonzo HFC
operating as intended, the developers behind the blockchain can now
move to the next phase. This phase is referred to as the Babbage
era. Related Reading | Cardano Loses 3rd Spot On Crypto Top
10, Why It May Drop Even More The Next Big Step Kevin Hammond,
software engineer at Input Output gave an update on what the
developer was working on next. Hammond revealed that IOHK was
moving into what they referred to as the Babbage era. This phase
which is named after Charles Babbage, the mathematician credited as
“the father of the computer”, is meant to smooth out any wrinkles
that may be leftover after Alonzo. ADA price at $2.32 | Source:
ADAUSD on TradingView.com IOHK will roll out various performance
improvements on the blockchain in this phase. These, Hammond said,
are improvements which the developer had been working on for some
time but had not yet launched. The developer intends to improve the
sinking speed, and in addition, will address performance issues
that operators have pointed out since the Alonzo HFC has been in
operation. This part is important in ensuring that users of the
network have a smooth experience when carrying out activities on
Cardano. Realizing The Best Of Cardano The Plutus Language on the
Cardano network is also getting an upgrade. Hammond revealed that
the developer was planning on improving the language by introducing
a new Plutus Language version on the blockchain. The Plutus
script-specific aspects of the network will be improved to allow
for a faster and increased volume of transactions in each block.
This new Plutus version will feature additional features which were
created due to demand from the user base. Since the network has
seen increased activity from the developer-side, it has also come
with various requests on the things that they would like to see the
network do. Related Reading | ADALend Makes It On “The
Essential Cardano List” By IOHK On the decentralization side,
Hammond talks about the network’s plans to further decentralize the
blockchain. The software engineer didn’t give many details on this,
but this will likely be a situation where Cardano puts the
community more in control of what happens on the network. The
revelations from Hammond are evidence of the fact that IOHK is
continuing its work to make the blockchain the best it can be.
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