Cardano to Undergo Network Upgrade in Preparation for Shelley

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Published Feb 20, 2020 07:45AM ET

Updated Feb 20, 2020 09:22AM ET

Cardano to Undergo Network Upgrade in Preparation for Shelley

The Cardano (ADA) network will perform a scheduled upgrade on Feb. 20 to introduce Ouroboros BFT, an improved consensus mechanism. The update is an intermediate step between the current Byron era and Shelley, which will introduce staking on mainnet.

Announced by IOHK on Feb. 19, the upgrade will be executed on Thursday at 9:44 PM UTC, or 4:44 PM EST. The network will undergo a hard fork, though the team emphasizes that “it is a planned and managed protocol upgrade.”

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