Cardano is on track to mark its eighth anniversary since its release at the end of September 2017.
As Cardano’s eighth anniversary approached, Cardano’s community account Cardanians won X, highlighting Cardano’s unbroken network uptime records.
Cardano $Ada will soon turn 8.
It was released at the end of September 2017.
Since its launch, Cardano has been running 24/7, never hacked or went down.
Right after Bitcoin, there is the second longest uptime. pic.twitter.com/s06fys4lyi
– Cardanians (crdn) (@cardanians_io) September 12, 2025
Since its launch, Cardano has been running 24/7, never hacking or down, has the second longest uptime and tracks only Bitcoin.
The Cardano-focused community account reiterated a statement made in a recent interview by Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson. There, Cardano said he had been running for nearly eight years and launched in 2017 without the results he was proud of.
Based on recent data, Cardano handles over 113,000,000 transactions and shows the adoption of the network. The ADA was trading at $0.88 at press time.
What’s next for the network?
According to input and output, the Cardano network has undergone many improvements in work, particularly with Useboros Peras, Usoboros Leios, and Cardinal Protocol.
usouloboros peras is the Ouroboros protocol version that brings fast finality to Cardano. Peras strengthens Nakamoto style consensus by introducing a Byzantine fault resistance (BFT) voting mechanism.
Usoboros Leios marks a major high-throughput upgrade to Cardano’s consensus protocol, with CIPs being proposed in the coming months.
Cardinal Protocol provides the first trust recent bridge between Bitcoin and Cardano, allowing for secure wrapping of Bitcoin UTXOS such as ordinals, such as Cardano assets, native-like.
The CIP-0118 (Nested Transactions) proposal introduces a validation zone that supports nested transactions, allowing use cases such as Babel fees and intent-based services. CIP:UsoborosφAlanx marks an upgrade to Cardano’s consensus protocol, strengthens resistance to attack grinding and improves fairness in leader elections.
Jolteon is a BFT consensus protocol that is compatible with networks officially created by AGDA for use in Cardano partner chains. Plutus-Halo2 illustrates the on-chain verification breakthrough of Cardano, particularly HALO2’s recursive zero-knowledge proof.
The partner chain rebuild framework allows you to share security across the partner chain by reusing stakeaders and leveraging existing SPO infrastructure without the need for liquidity pools or new collateral.
