{"id":631886,"date":"2026-07-19T22:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=832287"},"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:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/cardano-triggers-first-fully-onchain-governed-hard-fork-in-network-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardano Triggers First Fully Onchain Governed Hard Fork in Network History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cardano-triggers-first-fully-onchain-governed-hard-fork-in-network-history-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"intersectmbo.org post on X\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>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&#8217;s Conway ledger era. It does not replace the network&#8217;s governance structure. Instead, it lowers the cost of running Plutus smart contracts, [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","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&#8217;s Conway ledger era. It does not replace the network&#8217;s governance structure. Instead, it lowers the cost of running Plutus smart contracts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-631886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}