The Next 90 Days For ADA
Recently, ADA Founder, Charles Hoskinson, Posted a Livestream Update of Cardano’s Next 90 Day Roadmap. This will be a recap of the highlights from this Livestream. If you wish to watch the stream for yourself, check it out through the link below.
Charles started this Livestream detailing how ADA will start the transition into the Allanzo era. For those who don’t know, ADA is a constantly updating blockchain, with each fork of ADA adding in significant features or optimization to the blockchain. The previous hard fork of ADA, codename Mary, added the ability to run non-native tokens on the ADA blockchain. What this means is that ADA gained the ability to natively run other assets on its blockchain. This can include Stablecoins like USDC and Tether (USDT) or even NFT’s (Non-Fungible Tokens).
The Allanzo fork to the Cardano Blockchain will bring smart contract functionality to ADA as well as to all assets built upon the ADA ledger. This will open up a whole new world to the Cardano Ecosystem. This will allow the possibility to see many projects like crypto-kitties, that currently run on the Ethereum blockchain to be built on or ported over to ADA for cheaper fees. There will be a huge growth in the use of ADA as its functionality expands.
As stated in the Livestream, ADA is developed by over 10 different teams, and the Cardano Foundation has employed tactics to ensure the creation of smart contract applications (also known as Decentralized Applications or DApps) on ADA. They employed a 10-week course where they allowed 1500 participants to develop smart contract code to be tested before the system goes live for everyone. This will ensure that there is infrastructure in place or being developed for ADA’s smart contract fork right as it goes live or shortly afterwards. Charles and the Cardano Foundation focus on correctness and then focus on optimization, and with this in mind, they are planning for as smooth of a launch to Allanzo as possible.
Charles Hoskinson has said that Cardano is a community-built project and has expressed his will that over the next 90 days, resources and information will be funneled to viable projects and developers so that they can launch their applications on Cardano when the Allazo hard fork occurs. This is done through their catalyst program. This community-focused and developer-focused approach means that ADA’s smart contracts will not be DOA so to say. It will hopefully launch strong and continue strong as long as the community that uses it remains the focus and priority.
On the end-user side, Cardano will remain relatively the same. The Cardano Foundation is in talks with Dapps to create standards to improve the user experience in things like browsers and other Dapps that will be launched on Cardano.
In conclusion, while it is not certain that the Allanzo hard fork will be launched on the Mainnet within 90 days, there are significant projects in place, a concrete roadmap, as well as tools and resources flowing from the Cardano development team to outside developers. All of this leads me to believe that when the Allanzo hard fork does launch live on the Mainnet, it will be a resounding success! Keep an eye out on Cardano during these 90 days and see if they are able to make something great!
Source: ADA Founder, Charles Hoskinson, Talking the Next 90 Days of ADA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6negi1yAQQ&t=9s
