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Cardano technical upgrades and governance deadline

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Cardano technical upgrade upgrades and governance developments deadline

Cardano is preparing for a two-phase technical upgrade known as the Dijkstra era, designed to improve network throughput and settlement speed. The first phase, scheduled targeted for completion in late Q4 2026, will introduce Ouroboros Linear Leios to increase transaction capacity through supplementary Endorser Blocks. Blocks, alongside features like nested transactions and guard scripts. The second phase, targeted planned for the second quarter of Q2 2027, aims to activate Ouroboros Peras to accelerate settlement via a stake-pool voting layer. Alongside these technical developments, Parallel development continues on Amaru, an open-source Cardano node implementation written in Rust, which aims to enable mainnet block production by November 2026 to enhance network resilience. However, the network faces an upcoming immediate governance deadline on September 1. A vote is required to renew crisis regarding the renewal of four of the seven seats on Constitutional Committee seats. As of August 31, the deadline for the “Update Constitutional Committee. To maintain Committee 2026” vote is September 1 at 21:44:51 UTC. Current participation shows Delegated Representatives (DReps) at 66.3%, just below the necessary minimum of five members, required 67% threshold, while Stake Pool Operators (SPOs) are at 39%, trailing the renewal must 51% requirement. Failure to meet specific approval these thresholds from delegated representatives and stake pool operators; failure would reduce the committee to do so could three members, falling below the mandatory minimum of five. Such a vacancy would prevent the ratification of critical actions, including treasury withdrawals, parameter updates, and the initiation of hard forks, potentially block protocol decisions delaying the Dijkstra era and governance actions. Leios upgrades.

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