$ADA: IOG explică de ce upgrade-ul lui Cardano Vasil a fost amânat de „Câteva săptămâni în plus”

On Thursday (July 28), Kevin Hammond, Technology Manager at Input Output Global (IOG), the company responsible for Cardano’s research and development, explained why the Vasil furca tare), which until yesterday was expected to take place on the Cardano mainnet by the end of July, has been delayed again.

De ce următoarea actualizare majoră a lui Cardano este numită „Vasil”?

On 10 December 2021, Charles Hoskinson, Co-Founder and CEO of Input Output Global (“IOG”), the company responsible for Cardano’s research and development, explained that he was going to honour his Bulgarian friend and Cardano ambassador Vasil Stoianov Davov — who sadly a murit in his apartment in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on 3 December 2021 “after a long combat with pulmonary embolism” — by naming the next hard fork after him. Vasil was an artist, entrepreneur, blockchain consultant, Haskell practioneer, and ginkgologist. Furthermore, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was a highly beloved and respected member of the Cardano community.

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Why Vasil Upgrade Did Not Take Place on June 29 As Originally Planned

On June 20, IOG Co-Founder and CEO Charles Hoskinson explained why the Vasil hard fork would not be going live on the mainnet on June 29 as originally planned.

Hoskinson a spus:

We’re pretty close to the target. We’re code complete, and what code complete effectively means is you probably could flip the switch and get away with it, and certain projects would do that, but what happened after the collapse of Terra (LUNA) is that I gave a directive to a lot of engineers to say we should probably measure three times and cut once given the nature of things.

And so, additional tests were added in the Plutus suite and additional work was done for QA above and beyond what we normally do for hard forks. So, that was one dimension of the puzzle that made it more complicated.

The other dimension of the puzzle was that after Consensus we did have an enormous amount of contact with dApp developers and other people, and there was a desire to be a bit more inclusive in the QA process and the testing process. A lot of them said ‘hey, we need several weeks on testnet to be able to play around with these things’. And at the end of the day, this is not a hard fork for the average Cardano user. The Vasil hard fork has always been a hard fork specifically for dApp developers.

It speeds up the transaction rate with pipelining. And then all the CIPs are basically there to make Plutus smart contracts easier to write. If you’re a developer, whether you’re doing it on the mainnet or the testnet, you should have the same development environment in that respect.

So what’s more meaningful to the community, frankly, is making sure that the testnet runs Vasil so that people who are building dAps on Cardano can deploy those dApps… We don’t anticipate that this July date is going to in any way impact the actual rollout of all the dApps have been waiting for Vasil because now they have a testing environment to do that...

July is not too far off, you know, and all things considered, it’s kind of in an acceptable zone in my view. It’s a little frustrating because I really wanted to make sure that we got something in June, but getting it on the testnet I think is good enough for the developers because they’re the primary constituent here, and that’s not going to slow down ecosystem growth.

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The delay of Vasil is not because the engineering team is stumbling around trying to find answers.

The delay is calculated for the purpose of testing.# Cardano is the most sound & reliable blockchain because of this careful, steady, & intentional approach.$ ADA

- Dan Gambardello (@cryptorecruitr) 21 Iunie, 2022

What Can the Cardano Community Expect From the Vasil Upgrade?

On July 4, Tim Harrison, VP of Community & Ecosystem at IOG, published a blog in which he talked “the significant performance and capability enhancements to Cardano” that the Vasil upgrade (which he called “the most significant network upgrade since the deployment of staking via Shelley“) — expected to go live on the Cardano mainnet at the end of July — will deliver.

Harrison a spus:

As well as bringing improvements to smart contracts, the upgrade is part of the Basho phase of the Cardano roadmap, which focuses on scaling and network & ledger optimization and will bring multiple improvements to the ledger. Vasil will be deployed at the protocol level using Cardano’s hard-fork combinator (HFC) – innovative technology which enacts seamless protocol transitions and ledger upgrades minimizing disruption for end-users…

The upgrade… will implement widely anticipated features such as conducte de difuzie și upgrade la Plutus – Cardano’s core smart contract language. Many of the improvements have been scoped and developed with the support of the wider development community and stem from Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs). Additionally, a number of new cryptographic primitives will be provided, and script validation processes will further see adjustments and optimizations contributing to consistency in block propagation times and higher transaction processing rates.

With regard to diffusion pipelining, he had this to say:

In essence, it streamlines the process of sharing information about newly created blocks among network participants by ensuring that blocks can be shared (propagated) in the network well within five seconds after their creation. For this, diffusion pipelining propagates blocks before their full validation, thus ‘overlapping’ the time spent on diffusion with the time needed on validation.

Pipelining also ensures that the block header referencing the hash of a previous block is propagated correctly. The body of the block is retained within the metadata included in the next block, which is essential for DDoS attack resistance even without full block confirmation. Ultimately, diffusion pipelining will add scalability by enabling further block size increases and Plutus script improvements, as IOG continues to optimize the network throughout the rest of the year.

Harrison then went to talk about Plutus script enhancements as well miscellaneous other important enhancements, such as Script collateral adjustment (CIP-40).

Why the Vasil Upgrade Has Been Delayed Another Few Weeks

Joi (28 iulie), la ediția din iulie a emisiunii lunare Cardano360 de la IOG, Tim Harrison i-a cerut lui Kevin Hammond o actualizare cu privire la upgrade-ul Vasil.

Managerul tehnic al IOG a spus:

Ca de obicei, echipa a lucrat foarte mult pentru a oferi comunității beneficiile hard furk-ului Vasil. Și vestea bună este că săptămâna aceasta tocmai am etichetat o nouă versiune 1.35.2 pentru a remedia unele probleme pe care le-am găsit și facem testarea finală și analiza comparativă chiar acum. Deci, 1.35.2... este o versiune numai pentru testnet. Rezolvă unele probleme pe care le-au identificat operatorii de stake pool, dezvoltatorii DApp, testele interne și alte persoane. Și scopul este că va elimina orice probleme finale pe măsură ce mergem la bifurcația dificilă Vasil.

Deci, în mod evident, Tim, ceea ce facem este că ne concentrăm pe testarea temeinic, pe remedierea corectă, și nu pe grăbirea, iar comunitățile sprijină pentru a ne ajuta să facem asta a fost absolut genial. Am lucrat îndeaproape cu mulți membri de frunte a comunității pentru a face acest lucru perfect...

Aceasta este dezvoltarea de software. Inevitabil, unele probleme pot apărea. Și ceea ce trebuie să facem este să evaluăm aceste probleme pe măsură ce apar, să stabilim ce impact ar putea avea și trebuie să ne asigurăm că orice probleme care ar putea afecta utilizarea nodului pe măsură ce mergem la Vasil sunt pe deplin lucrat.

Evident, de unde ne aflăm, ar putea mai fi câteva săptămâni înainte să mergem la furca Vasil propriu-zisă... Toți utilizatorii trebuie să fie gata să treacă prin bifurcația dificilă pentru a se asigura că există un proces fără probleme atât pentru ei, dar și foarte important. pentru utilizatorii finali ai blockchain-ului Cardano. Pe măsură ce lansăm la noile versiuni de noduri, vom comunica foarte strâns cu operatorii pool-ului de mize și alți utilizatori.Matei 22:21

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