What can one expect from Cardano's Vasil upgrade?

Highlights

• Cardano blockchain is expected to carry out its much-anticipated Vasil Hard Fork upgrade on 22 September.
• The Vasil Hard Fork upgrade will enrich smart contract capabilities, increase its throughput rate, and reduce the overall costs of the protocol.
• The 8^th-ranked token, on 21 September, was trading at the US $0.448240 with a 24-hour trading volume of US$78,66,59,731, according to CoinMarketCap.

Barely a week after the crypto market witnessed the breakthrough in history with the Ethereum Merge, another leading token is all set to undergo a major upgrade on 22 September. The Cardano (ADA) blockchain is expected to undergo the Vasil Hard Fork upgrade, which will improve ADA’s smart contract capabilities, increase its throughput rate, and reduce overall costs.

Cardano uses Plutus as its programming language, allowing the DApp developers to create unique experiences. The Vasil Hard Fork upgrade preparations have been underway for some time now, and together with Ethereum Merge, it is often seen as the most important upgrade that the crypto networks have seen this year.

Cardano's engineering teams have been working round the clock, and exhaustive tests are being conducted to prepare the protocol ahead of the launch. The Cardano Foundation revealed that the new capabilities of the protocol and a new Plutus cost model would become available for developers to utilise on the mainnet from 27 September.

What is Vasil Hard Fork?

As a definition, a hard fork aims to upgrade to the earlier versions of a protocol’s Blockchain network. So, through the Vasil Hard Fork, Cardano protocol can bring its smart contracts in parity with Ethereum.

The Vasil Hard Fork will be reduced transaction costs, scalability of the Decentralised applications and the speed of the transactions. Cardano has often been seen as lagging behind Ethereum's Layer-1 smart contract feature, and unlike the ETH, ADA depends on the account-based model. Following the upgrade, Cardano is expected to get the freedom of hosting over 1,075 DApps on its platform. Besides, the Vasil Upgrade will allow the developers to store information seamlessly. This would optimise the transaction’s throughput and increase the Blockchain's concurrency.

How is Cardano faring ahead of the upgrade?

The 8^th-ranked token, on 21 September, was trading at the US $0.448240 with a 24-hour trading volume of US$78,66,59,731, according to CoinMarketCap. The token witnessed a minor rally of 0.07% at 8:15 AM (GMT+1) with a live market cap of US $15,32,17,63,503.

The Vasil Upgrade may bring a significant change to the protocol, which may decide the future growth of the protocol. How much the protocol is prepared for any glitch remains to be seen, but both Cardano developers and investors would be praying for a smooth upgrade.

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