IOG announced:

“We’re delighted to announce that we have now successfully spun up Alonzo Purple and have today begun the new user onboarding process.

“This is an exciting and important next step in the Alonzo journey. In fact, the Cardano journey. With the support of our OG community testers on the Blue & White phases, Alonzo Purple will be the first fully public Cardano testnet to support smart contracts

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“It’s an important moment, marking significant progress in the rollout of smart contracts on the Cardano mainnet which is targeted for the end of August/early September.

“Our community has been central to the progress made so far. We have now invited the 150+ strong test team to join the new Alonzo Purple network and a new Discord channel.”

It’s worth noting that Alonzo Purple is the third and final stage of the Alonzo hard fork, following the Blue and White phases. As soon as this is successfully deployed, it will be the first public testnet to support smart contracts.

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After Alonzo White was deployed about a month ago, it started supporting smart contracts on Cardano, but for only a selected group of 500 users. It also started allowing the minting of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Cardano network will be opened to the full support for smart contracts by the end of August or early September. As soon as the upgrade is deployed successfully in early September as estimated, the network is expected to even start supporting an ERC20 converter.

The development of Cardano has been divided into five updates. According to the deployment order, Cardano is about to complete the Goguen era, which is the implementation of smart contracts. Based on the order, Basho will be the next update, followed by Voltaire.

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According to Charles Hoskinson, the creator of Cardano (ADA), in a live update on 6th August, “Alonzo is a lot smoother than Byron and Shelley, a lot more is being upgraded, but the process of upgrading has been so refined it’s amazing we can flip a switch as an ecosystem and it just works on the other side.”

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According to the latest information shared on Twitter by Input Output Global (IOG), Alonzo Purple, the first public testnet to support smart contract on Cardano has been successfully launched.

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IOG, in a series of tweets on 6th August, stated that this the development marks significant progress in the rollout of smart contracts on the Cardano mainnet, expected to launch by early September.

IOG announced:

“ALONZO UPDATE: We’re delighted to announce that we have now successfully spun up Alonzo Purple and have today begun the new user onboarding process.

“This is an exciting and important next step in the Alonzo journey. In fact, the Cardano journey. With the support of our OG community testers on the Blue & White phases, Alonzo Purple will be the first fully public Cardano testnet to support smart contracts.

“It’s an important moment, marking significant progress in the rollout of smart contracts on the Cardano mainnet which is targeted for the end of August/early September.”

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Strong Test Team Invited

According to the report, over 150 strong test team has now been invited to join the new Alonzo Purple network and a new Discord channel.

Additionally, the invitation has also been extended to 300 graduates from the Plutus Pioneer program, the IOG developers’ education course where thousands of developers are trained to code Plutus smart contracts.

The report added:

“Once the initial Alonzo Purple team has been successfully onboarded (kick-off call Monday), we’ll hard fork the network and open Alonzo Purple to any developer who wishes to join.

“We have already been engaging with a number of exchanges on Alonzo White. With Alonzo Purple we’ll broaden this further, adding more exchanges. This integration work – being driven by a Cardano Foundation integration team led by Mel – is crucial to success.

“We want to ensure as many exchanges as possible are ‘Alonzo HF-ready’ when we hard fork the network, to ensure that their customers maintain uninterrupted deposit/withdrawal access to their ada and do not have to wait for this to be sorted out afterwards.”

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However, the report stated that there is still a very long way to go in the development, but Alonzo is progressing as expected:

“So Alonzo progress is very good. We still have a way to go. We expect more bugs and may yet encounter bumps in the road. That is what a testnet is for. And there is still plenty of integration, testing and ongoing optimization to go.

“But we’re on track and feeling good. And we have an incredible Cardano behind us, alongside us and cheering us on And a truly exciting future, just around the corner.”

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