In a tweet posted by the Cardano Basis on Monday, the variety of Cardano (ADA) wallets has surpassed the two million mark. The network reached the earlier milestone of 1 million ADA wallets on Might 22, 2021.
Throughout that interval, the Cardano Basis efficiently carried out the Alonzo hard fork, enabling good contracts on its network. In the meantime, Charles Hoskinson, Cardano’s founder, has shifted his consideration to rising the adoption of blockchain know-how in Africa. By way of a tweet posted final week, Hoskinson claimed that 5 million college students in Ethiopia are on schedule to obtain digital IDs linked to their educational data which are based mostly on the Cardano blockchain.
However Cardano’s technological growth can also be selecting up tempo post-Alonzo. When asked concerning the progress relating to Cardano’s layer-two scaling resolution, Hydra, throughout an ask-me-anything session on Saturday, Hoskinson mentioned:
“We’re going to maintain including sources to Hydra, and we have been attempting to establish some groups so we are able to parallelize the workstream as a result of it is such a excessive business precedence. And it is going to be crucial that we’ll have the opportunity to offload numerous the transaction site visitors that is going to come from the entire apps which are coming.”
Layer-two options function on high of a longtime protocol to enhance network efficiency. In the meantime, sharding within the context of Cardano entails channeling transactions off-chain to staking pools, or Hydra Nodes, with out partitioning the ledger, itself. Theoretically, suppose every Hydra Node can course of 1,000 transactions per second, and there are 1,000 such nodes. In that case, all the Cardano network may course of up to 1 million transactions per second — assuming linear scaling. The venture remains to be present process analysis and growth, with no precise launch date.
