By forum.cardano.org on July 29, 2020
When Cardano launched in 2017 it originated at a single point of time with the release of Byron, the value layer of the Cardano protocol and the basis of the ada cryptocurrency. In contrast, the highly-anticipated transition to Shelley has been a gradual rollout, involving years of behind the scenes work, almost 80 peer-reviewed research papers, and multiple testnet iterations. The mainnet version of Shelley will go live today following a hard fork of the Cardano blockchain. This transition...