Cardano’s Valentine’s Upgrade to Bring More Cross-Chain Love
Input Output Global (IOG), the blockchain technology firm responsible for the development of Cardano (ADA), has announced that the SECP upgrade mainnet launch has been confirmed for February 14th, 2023. According to IOG, the SECP (SECP256k1) upgrade will make it “easier for developers to build cross-chain applications” with new “built-in functions to Plutus to support ECDSA and Schnorr signatures.” IOG further disclosed that it aims to ship the new functionality to the pre-production test environment on Saturday, February 11th, 2023. As Valentine’s Day swiftly approaches, Cardano seems to be setting the mood for developers, and according to a report by GitHub, developers are reciprocating the feeling. Cardano surpassed 5,000 smart contracts on the network in early February 2023. GitHub revealed daily developer activity on Cardano has been soaring, outranking Vega Protocol, Polkadot, and Decentraland to claim the top spot on February 9th, 2023. GitHub Daily Development Activity: Following Cardano’s Vasil upgrade in September of 2022, the SECP upgrade will add new built-in functionality to the Plutus developer portal that will support ECDSA and Schnorr signatures, making it easier for developers to build cross-chain applications securely. Plutus only provides Cardano’s primary signature algorithm Ed25519 as a built-in function. Signatures such as ECDSA and Schnorr are widely used in other blockchain platforms like Polkadot. Still, they would be more expensive and time-consuming for Cardano developers “unless also provided as built-in functions.” The new cryptographic primitives will reportedly allow developers to use a broader range of multi-signature or threshold signature designs native to Cardano, providing higher security and interoperability for cross-chain decentralized application (dApp) development. The signature designs are expected to make it easier for Plutus dApp developers to work with other blockchains, improving efficiency in terms of the time, effort, and resources required to implement such algorithms. Despite the proximity of the upgrade and substantial whale buy-ins, the price of ADA remains in the $0.36 USD price range at the time of writing—a 10.06% decrease from its seven-day high of $0.40 on February 6th. Cardano’s SECP upgrade displays the #8th ranked network’s commitment to improving its infrastructure for developers. The SECP upgrade could finally bolster the Cardano ecosystem by enticing developers from other blockchains to use Plutus for writing dApps. Read more about Cardano’s Plutus Scripts: Read more about Cardano’s on-chain statistics leading up to the SECP upgrade:
Setting the Mood for Devs
#1: 778 Cardano
#2: 775 Vega Protocol
#3: 677 Polkadot / Kusama
#4: 636 Decentraland
#5: 549 Internet Computer
#6: 477 Ethereum
#7: 475 Klaytn
#8: 417 Holo
#9: 414 ChainLink
#10: 410 Status pic.twitter.com/CrLnEkUKIHOn the Flipside
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