{"id":200986,"date":"2026-07-19T22:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=200986"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:44:21","slug":"cardano-triggers-first-fully-onchain-governed-hard-fork-in-network-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=200986","title":{"rendered":"Cardano Triggers First Fully Onchain Governed Hard Fork in Network History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardano activated its Van Rossem hard fork on July 18, 2026, at approximately 21:44:51 UTC, moving the network to Protocol Version 11 without any reported downtime. The upgrade is an intra-era change inside Cardano\u2019s Conway ledger era. It does not replace the network\u2019s governance structure. Instead, it lowers the cost of running Plutus smart contracts, [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardano activated its Van Rossem hard fork on July 18, 2026, at approximately 21:44:51 UTC, moving the network to Protocol Version 11 without any reported downtime. The upgrade is an intra-era change inside Cardano\u2019s Conway ledger era. It does not replace the network\u2019s governance structure. Instead, it lowers the cost of running Plutus smart contracts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":200987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/200987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}