Cardano blockchain is set to launch the Alonzo testnet as early as next month. The company’s chief executive officer Charles Hoskinson stated that the testnet will also bring smart contracts to the Cardano (ADA) blockchain.
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“For the first time, people will be able to write smart contracts and deploy them on Cardano,” he stated.
Based on the plan for the project, the Alonzo upgrade is coming as a hard fork, but the smart contracts will be offered for testing purposes initially. However, the company plans to ensure the mainnet rollout in August.
A major milestone for Cardano
The inclusion of the smart contracts on the Cardano blockchain will represent a major milestone for the network. It will make Cardano a more competitive alternative to Ethereum (ETH). The decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol on Ethereum has exploded, allowing the platform to build on a plethora of decentralized apps dApps largely based on smart contracts.
Since Cardano will be offering smart contracts on its blockchain platform soon, it means the platform will match Ethereum’s platform when it comes to capability.
Blockchain’s developers have developed a Cardano-native dapp that enables users to swap different tokens, – similar to the so-called “killer dapps” on the Ethereum’s network.
DeFi Pulse released data showing that the total value locked in DeFi
