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Cardano (ADA) Releases Project Shelley Update
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Updated: Nov. 7, 2019 at 2:21 am UTC
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On Oct. 9, the Cardano (ADA) team released a video updating investors and the public about the progress of Project Shelley, which the firm touts as a path to the protocol’s “full decentralization.”
Cardano Moves Towards Complete Decentralization
The video is narrated by Liz Bancroft-Turner, a project manager at Cardano’s parent firm IOHK. Shelley is part of Cardano’s five-step plan towards a global computing platform and aims to make the project wholly autonomous and decentralized. As explained in the video, the update focuses on three “streams” to reach its goal; delegation, incentives, and networking.
With delegation, users can provide their block signing rights to trusted third parties. Next, ample incentives ensure stakeholders in the protocol are motivated to support the network by staking their ADA tokens to allow a smooth, issue-free operation. Lastly, the networking stream intends to build supporting infrastructure around the Cardano protocol to help the project’s aim of total decentralization.
Much of the update helps solve scaling issues faced by protocols like Bitcoin and Ethereum. If successful, Cardano stands to be adopted as an “enterprise”- ready blockchain that can augment corporate usage, as believed by the community, evidenced in a Reddit thread.
Project Break-Down
Bancroft-Turner explained the project is split into research, design, and implementation stages; of which the research phase is complete already with two papers submitted and the project currently being in the design phase.
Cardano engineers are currently working on creating a technical implementation plan, calculating the dependencies required to run the protocol. This includes what work can be executed in parallel and sequential and the level of skill and duration involved for each.
Next, the project head included IOHK’s testing methodology for the update, which provides a testing strategy, test execution strategy, and test management. The team aims to exercise rigid control to assess for protocol quality while highlighting the risks and mitigation plans for each obstacle detected.
The image below briefly describes each strategy:
Cardano also intends to cover other non-functional testing activities, such as benchmarking and performance inspections, security audits, and checking for network changes while transitioning from a partly-centralized to an entirely decentralized protocol.
Cardano Market Data
At the time of press 2:21 am UTC on Nov. 7, 2019, Cardano is ranked #10 by market cap and the price is down 8.52% over the past 24 hours. Cardano has a market capitalization of $2.12 billion with a 24-hour trading volume of $178.04 million. Learn more about Cardano ›
Crypto Market Summary
At the time of press 2:21 am UTC on Nov. 7, 2019, the total crypto market is valued at at $170.64 billion with a 24-hour volume of $62.38 billion. Bitcoin dominance is currently at 52.10%. Learn more about the crypto market ›
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