118.3K @WorldOfMercek Cardano spent a decade getting mocked for being "the slow."
Academic chain while everyone else shipped fast and dealt with the fallout later.
This week's testnet is the first real chance to find out if "slow" was actually just "correct, eventually."
A thread 🧵👇 https://t.co/eMWe8ArcnX
118.3K @WorldOfMercek 2\ The name
They called it Musashi Dojo, after the swordsman who wrote the actual book on winning through patience instead of speed.
For a chain that's been called slow for ten years, naming your biggest scaling test after the patron saint of not rushing is either self-aware or just funny.
Probably both.
What's actually being tested is Ouroboros Leios from @IOGroupp, a consensus-layer upgrade that adds a second block type alongside Praos. Evolution, not replacement.
118.3K @WorldOfMercek 3\ The throughput
Cardano runs at roughly 4.5 kb/s today.
The published ceiling is dramatically higher than that, but IOG's own team has said the rollout starts conservative and scales up as demand justifies it.
The ceiling and the starting point are two different conversations.
Each rollout phase is named after one of the five rings:
➜ Earth = design validation
➜ Water = parameter tuning
➜ Fire = real-world conditions
➜ Wind = adversarial testing
➜ Void = mainnet readiness
118.3K @WorldOfMercek 4\ The part about SPOs
Fire is the phase that actually matters if you run a stake pool. Real software. Real hardware. Real conditions. Just without real consequences yet.
No real $ADA touches any of this.
It's a testnet built specifically to find what breaks before any of it reaches mainnet.
If you run a stake pool, this is the window to stress test your setup while breaking something costs nothing.
118.3K @WorldOfMercek 5\ Why it matters
Cardano just removed its biggest technical excuse.
Whether that changes anything else depends on a market that's stopped giving Cardano the benefit of the doubt a long time ago.
Engineering alone won't fix that part.
118.3K @WorldOfMercek 6\ The end
If Leios delivers what it's supposed to, people won't be able to use "Cardano is too slow" as the default criticism anymore.
Everything after that comes down to adoption.
🔗 Live now if you want to see for yourself:
https://t.co/WlRTAULROC https://t.co/Q83as417In
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486.5K @TheMoneyApe If you invested $10,000 in $ADA at its peak 5 years ago, it would be worth just $480 today.
So what actually went wrong? 🤔 https://t.co/IPqIC650ue
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10.7K @yutazzz Cardano - 'van Rossem' hard fork is approaching, and we need all SPO votes, ! 💪💪💪 (Auto-Abstain delegation does not apply to SPO votes for this governance action ! )
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