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Cardano Van Rossum Fork Activates First Fully Community-Governed Upgrade
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Cardano Van Rossum Fork Activates First Fully Community-Governed Upgrade

Cardano’s first fully community-governed hard fork went live on Saturday, July 18, activating Protocol Version 11 and validating a governance experiment that took nearly five years to mature into practice. The Van Rossum upgrade, named in tribute to Dutch developer Max van Rossem who died in October 2025, reduces smart contract costs, introduces new cryptographic...

Jul 25, 2026 5 min read