IOHK the blockchain engineering firm behind the Cardano network has announced a one month delay to the long-awaited Vasil upgrade.
The Vasil upgrade is set to provide a massive performance improvement to Cardano and its smart contract capabilities according to Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson. The latest estimate is now set for the last week of July.
Nigel Hemsley ,IOHK’s head of delivery and projects noted that the core Input Output Global team working on the upgrade is extremely close to finalizing the core work but there are still seven bugs that remain unresolved.
Hemsley stated that the work on Vasil has been the most complex program of development and integration to date, from several angles. It’s a challenging process that requires not only significant work from core teams, but also close coordination across the ecosystem.
As a result, the Cardano Foundation and the IOG team agreed to defer sending the Vasil hard fork to the Cardano testnet from June 20 until June 29.
Once the testnet has been hard forked, devs from Cardanao-based dApps and stake pool operators SPOs will have roughly four weeks to carry out any required integration and testing work before the Vasil hard fork is initiated on the mainnet in late July
