- The SECP upgrade on Cardano, ‘Valentine,’ will launch on February 14, 2023.
- Valentine will support the existing ECDSA and Schnorr signatures.
- SPOs and Cardano node users are advised to upgrade to version 1.35.5 for compatibility.
Input Output Global (IOG) has announced that the SECP upgrade on Cardano will launch on February 14, 2023. The upgrade, which would increase Cardano’s security and interoperability, is called ‘Valentine.’
In a tweet, IOG announced Valentine would go live on Cardano’s mainnet by 21:44:51 UTC on February 14, 2023. It informed the community that all stakeholders, including Stake Pool Operators (SPOs), exchanges, and DApps/tools developers, had been involved in the process of the upcoming upgrade.
Tentatively set to go live on mainnet on February 14, 2023 at 21:44:51 UTC, Valentine functionality is planned to be available on the pre-production environment on Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 00:00 UTC.— Input Output (@InputOutputHK) February 8, 2023
This new implementation will take the Cardano mainnet to version 8. Hence, SPOs and Cardano node users will need to upgrade their nodes to version 1.35.5, the latest version. …
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