Samuel Leathers, IOG Core Technology Product Director and co-owner of the RATS pool with Charles Hoskinson, declared that the Cardano (ADA) pool has been updated to a new version.
Charles Hoskinson negotiates for RATS node upgrade
Cardano founder charles hoskinson And Leathers, a former DevOps engineer at Input Output (IOHK), launched the RATS pool to stake ADA three years ago. This pool was named RATS after the “King of Rats” status given to Hoskinson by his CEO of Blockstream, Adam Back.
This pool enabled Cardano users to delegate their ADA crypto, and has been running ever since.
As a protocol known for continuous upgrades and improvements, Cardano innovators decided to scale up the RATS pool. Therefore, the RATS Cardano pool has been upgraded to Cardano Node 8.9.1. In addition to this upgrade, RATS can now sign Mithril certificates and use new P2P features that enable bootstrap peers and peer sharing with Cardano relays.
Hoskinson appeared on X to encourage his followers to ensure they delegate their ADA to the RATS pool. He also stressed that all the money staked is going into “RATS-related shenanigans.”
More upgrades coming to Cardano
Apart from upgrading the RATS pool to Cardano nodes 8.9.1, Hoskinson has previously hinted at other things. innovative upgrades It is expected to be rolled out on the parent Cardano protocol in the first half of this year.
This includes Changing Hardfork and Plutus V3 upgrades, Two important milestones for the blockchain platform. Plutus V3 engine was launched about a month ago to improve the performance of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) networks.
Chang Hardfork will probably arrive in the second quarter of 2024, but the Cardano developer team hasn’t said much about it yet.
Hoskinson is already intentionally looking beyond blockchain protocols artificial intelligence (AI) The sudden hype surrounding a particularly innovative technology. It’s worth recognizing that his interest in AI is not new.
As the voice of the industry, he recently predicted that computing power could be enhanced by 2030. His predictions depend on the ongoing development of high-performance hardware and model training. He suggests that a standard gaming PC will run his 1,000 times more powerful model of Mixtral, which is today’s leading AI.
