Cardano, Update Countdown to Break Through Performance Limits..."Technical Flaws Are a Thing of the Past"

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Cardano (ADA) has taken a key step ahead of its mainnet upgrade. With the van Rossem hard fork submitted to the preview test network, the first step for the transition to protocol version 11 has been confirmed.

U.Today reported on May 6 that Intersect, a member-based organization within the Cardano ecosystem, submitted the van Rossem hard fork to the preview test network. Intersect stated, “The van Rossem hard fork GA was submitted to the preview test network today.”

The pre-release of Cardano Node version 11.0.1 was also unveiled. This version was presented as a prerequisite for safely passing the hard fork. SPOs, DApps, and developers active in the preview environment were advised to upgrade as soon as possible.

Node 11.0.1 was described as the first node release to support Cardano's intra-era hard fork. This node enables the protocol version 11 upgrade once the hard fork governance measures are implemented on-chain through voting by SPOs, DReps, and the Constitutional Committee.

The van Rossem intra-era hard fork is an upgrade that brings Cardano Preview to protocol version 11. During this upgrade process, the Cardano mainnet protocol will transition to major version 11 and minor version 0. Since the ledger remains in the Conway era, no separate era transition will occur.

Protocol version 11 is key as it bundles Plutus performance, ledger consistency, and node-level security improvements into a single intra-era upgrade. Due to the nature of an intra-era hard fork, the transaction structure does not change, and the overall upgrade burden on the ecosystem is reduced.

Following this upgrade, several new Plutus primitives defined in CIP-0109, CIP-0132, CIP-0133, CIP-0138, and CIP-0153 will be provided. The upgrade integrates the built-in function configurations across Plutus V1, V2, and V3, allowing existing Plutus V1 and V2 scripts to utilize all built-in functions after the hard fork.

According to the Cardano Constitution, at least 85% of stake pools, based on active stake, must upgrade to a node version capable of supporting protocol version 11 before the governance measure is ratified. The van Rossem hard fork has entered the verification phase before the mainnet transition, through its submission to the preview test network and the release of Node 11.0.1.

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