Cardano van Rossem hard fork ships to Preview testnet
The 80% SPO signaling threshold is the gate — once crossed on mainnet, every node still on the old protocol will fork off the chain.
Hard forks, soft forks, scheduled mainnet upgrades, and network split events.
The 80% SPO signaling threshold is the gate — once crossed on mainnet, every node still on the old protocol will fork off the chain.
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