Cardano Smart Contracts Hardfork 2021

On Wednesday 1 September around UTC 20:20, the #Cardano Public Testnet will hardfork into the #Alonzo era, adding #Plutus #smartcontracts capability. It marks the start of the countdown to full mainnet deployment & the beginning of an exciting new era for Cardano. Here’s David on what to expect: The Cardano Alonzo hard fork is coming. So what does that mean for Cardano as a whole and what will it look like in the early days after the hard fork? Well, let’s start with where we are right now. Plutus is ready. The Daedalus wallet is ready. Everything is all packaged up. And as of now, it’s been confirmed that we are ready to hard fork to the Cardano Testnet on Wednesday, September 1st. Once we’ve hard forked the test net, then we can start testing everything that was inside that package we just updated inside a live production environment. We’ll be running our own tests and inviting others to test as well – with the main goal, being to test for stability, security testing that the foundational code to write
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