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Cardano[1] has been one of the ecosystem’s most prominent projects of late, with its progress pushing some to draw a comparison with the likes of Ethereum. Right now, it is in the Goguen era, well set to add smart contract functionalities via Alonzo. However, it would seem that Alonzo might have to wait, at least for some time.

While it hadn’t been scheduled, the mainnet deployment of the Alonzo upgrade was expected in August 2021. This is now likely to be pushed forward since it is still in the testnet phase of its progress.

A look at the two-part changes

According to IOHK’s Charles Hoskinson, the Alonzo update on the mainnet is still a few weeks from now. In revealing so, the exec also shared two-part changes that will take place on the network.

For starters, addressing the Alonzo hard fork combinator event in a recent vlog[2], Hoskinson said,

“Now the Hard fork combinator event is strictly about getting Alonzo capabilities to the node and meaning that if the Plutus code was submitted, you would be able to execute those transactions to be valid.”

Meanwhile, the second event is about building the infrastructure around that node. This is expected to allow both off-chain and on-chain code, while also encouraging the building of full DApps inside the system. Hoskinson added,

“…so, the first part is

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