And just like that we are into a new era on the Cardano blockchain. As ever with Cardano a simple smooth transition, across the hard fork at approx 21:45UTC on September 1st 2024. All ADAvault nodes have now been upgraded to 9.1.1 and are performing as expected. Some positive media coverage even including Coindesk!
Category: Site Announcements
Hardware upgrades
We’ve just completed a round of upgrades to the ADAvault hardware stack which we use to host all infrastructure we run. Compute is now based on AMD EPYC rather than Intel as we found that the AMD offering was more competitive at this refresh, resulting in approximately 200% increase in processing power and cores available.…
Cardano Node 8.1.1
We’ve recently upgraded all infrastructure to a new version of the Cardano Node which has been released, preparing for the Conway era. If you’ve been following along for a while you’ll recall the Cardano penchant for naming ledger eras after major figures from science and literature. John Conway is a significant figure in mathematics who…
Ready for Vasil
All ADAvault nodes have now been upgraded to 1.35.3 ready for the Vasil Hard Fork Combinator event. You can track the overall Cardano ecosystem progress towards Vasil on the PoolTool.io Network Health dashboard. As of writing you can see we are about half way there in terms of SPO upgrades. IOG have set a few…
Vasil Upgrade Status
You may have seen a few concerns on social media in the recent days about the status of the Vasil upgrade. We’ve been keeping our heads down as we didn’t have much to add to the conversation taking place. While we view debate as healthy, our view tends to primarily be informed by IOG (Kevin…