IOHK, the event arm behind Cardano, lately introduced a brand new arduous fork of the protocol scheduled for mid-December. 

Kevin Hammond, a software program engineer at IOHK, revealed this week that Cardano will endure a tough fork later this month as a part of its transition to the Goguen growth period. Though most observers affiliate arduous forks with trauma, Hammond mentioned that these occasions are dealt with a lot in another way on Cardano:

“[…] Cardano handles arduous forks routinely, with out stopping block manufacturing. This provides a uniquely easy improve course of that enables new options to be launched simply and evolve the platform’s capabilities.”

The arduous fork is designed to introduce new efficiencies to the Cardano community and allow the “token locking” characteristic, which information how a token is being utilized on the ledger.

Hammond defined:

“Locking, on this case, means ‘reserving’ a sure variety of tokens for a specified time period in order that they can’t be disposed of to realize a profit (equivalent to voting, or working a sensible contract).”

Hammond says Cardano will quickly allow integration of different customized tokens into the blockchain that can be utilized alongside ADA, its native cryptocurrency.

Launched in 2017 by Charles Hoskinson, Cardano has been dubbed by proponents because the “Ethereum killer” for its scaling capability and superior good contract options. The undertaking is understood for its time-consuming roadmap that has thus far targeted on blockchain foundations and decentralization. The Goguen period kicks off good contract integration.

ADA is likely one of the top-performing large-cap cryptocurrencies of the previous yr, an indication that traders are rallying round Cardano’s growth progress. The ADA token has returned greater than 400% year-to-date, together with a latest brush with multiyear highs.