Altcoins

$ADA: Two Prominent Cardano Community Members Clear Up FUD Around Vasil Hard Fork

On Thursday (August 18), Adam Dean and Andrew Wesberg, who are two prominent members of the Cardano community, kindly took the time to clarify the current status of testing for the Vasil protocol upgrade.

Dean, who is currently co-founder of Buffy Bot Publishing, is a former stake pool operator (SPO); these days, he builds software that is powered by Cardano. As for Wesberg, he is an Android developers, as well as an SPO (“Blue Cheese St₳ke House“).

Their comments were made during a very interesting conversation with Dan Gambardello, Founder of Crypto Capital Venture, as well as the host of the very popular YouTube channel “Crypto Capital Venture”.

Based on what was said in this interview and what said by Dean and IOG Co-Founder and CEO Charles Hoskinson in recent tweets (posted in the past couple of days), here is a recap of what has been happening, and what lies ahead on the road to the Vasil hard fork combinator (HFC) event on the mainnet.

First, a very serious defect in release candidate 1.35.2 was discovered after some SPOs prematurely upgraded their mainnet nodes to this version:

(2/n) because operators rushed to upgrade on #Mainnet and it was creating incompatible forks and causing a decrease to chain density. #Kudos to @ATADA_Stakepool and @PooltoolI for doing the research of on-chain data to identify 1.35.2 v. 1.34.1 as the culprit…

— Adam Dean (@adamKDean) August 18, 2022

Well good thing some SPOs started using 1.35.2 on mainnet because the bug was first identified on mainnet by @ATADA_Stakepool and other SPOs afaik.

— Rick McCracken DIGI (@RichardMcCrackn) August 19, 2022

Meanwhile, on the main Cardano testnet (which had been working perfectly fine for over two years), the majority of SPOs upgraded their nodes with release candidate 1.35.2 to “simulate a Vasil HCF event there,” which sadly managed to “catastrophically” break this important testnet, meaning that it now cannot be upgraded to release candidate 1.35.3. Although a couple of new testnets have been created to allow Cardano DApp developers and SPOs to test this latest version of Cardano, according to Dean and Wesberg, it is still early days, and until the community of DApp developers and SPOs has finished their testing on these new testnets (which could take a few weeks), they should not be upgrading on the mainnet since we cannot at this stage be super confident that there are no “showstopper” bugs in release 1.35.3.

(4/n) We are now testing 1.35.3 on two «new» testnets that do not have a block history like testnet (having gone through all previous Cardano HFC events there) or a simulation of multi-node-version blocks on the chain…

— Adam Dean (@adamKDean) August 18, 2022

According to data by Cardano PoolTool, so far (as of 3:30 p.m. UTC on August 19), 17% of Cardano stake pools have updated their mainnet nodes to release 1.35.3, and there will be an Vasil HFC event on the Cardano mainnet once 75% of the mainnet nodes have upgraded to Vasil code (i.e. release 1.35.x, where “x” is 3 if no new defects are found).

Source: Cardano PoolTool

Well, @IOHK_Charles and @InputOutputHK have said that we will test/hard fork once 75% of nodes are upgraded on mainnet. So we are seeing a truly «decentralized» vote by the validators (stake pool operators) in this case. Presuming no bugs are discovered, I would guess few weeks

— Adam Dean (@adamKDean) August 19, 2022

Although what Dean and Wesberg are arguing for, i.e. not rushing to release 1.35.3 on the mainnet (since it has not gone through proper end-to-end testing on any of the new testnets), Hoskinson believes that release 1.35.3 is ready for the mainnet and so do some DApp develpers and SPOs.

For example, here is what the operator of the Digital Fortress stake pool said earlier today:

This chart shows less slot battles between the 17% nodes on 1.35.3 and the 67% nodes on 1.34.1 on Cardano mainnet.

This is also a good indication the 1.35.2 problem is fixed in 1.35.3 in addition to the testnet testing. pic.twitter.com/c095S0UWiV

— Rick McCracken DIGI (@RichardMcCrackn) August 19, 2022

So, currently, it seems that we are on track for a Vasil hard fork on the mainnet sometime in September, and hopefully IOG, as well as Cardano fans in general, will not pressure DApps developers and SPOs into rushing the Vasil upgrade on the mainnet just because Cardano rival Ethereum is having its Merge event on September 15.

The IOG correctly pointed out earlier today that the timing of the Vasil hard fork on the mainnet is up to the SPOs and not IOG:

You’re the SPOs, you ultimately decide. I’m seriously tired of taking the blame on both sides. Cardano is decentralized. The people running the network ultimately decide upgrades not me.

— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) August 19, 2022

Image Credit

Featured Image via Unsplash

   

Source

Click to rate this post!
[Total: 0 Average: 0]
Показать больше

Добавить комментарий