Welcome to our series of fortnightly technical development updates. Every two weeks we chart the Cardano Goguen rollout, and the road to the Alonzo hard fork and smart contracts on Cardano.

Nigel and Dimitris from our Delivery team will be bringing you the latest Alonzo updates as we deploy, test and integrate new functionalities on our development testnets. This time we are also joined by node team lead Kevin Hammond and Ben O’Hanlon, Head of Community.

On Tuesday 13th July, we successfully hard-forked into AlonzoWhite and have started growing our community of DApp developers who are helping us test and trial the platform en route to the Alonzo deployment. These developers will be trying out their ideas by building and submitting Plutus scripts on the Alonzo testnet. We’ll continue onboarding more users as we move towards AlonzoPurple, where we will be providing additional tooling that will simplify and improve the experience.

Goguen is a complex, multi-layered project that delivers utility functionalities on Cardano from metadata, native tokens and now, smart contracts. There are multiple teams contributing to its ongoing development and rollout. And we hope these updates will give you a birds-eye view of all the work that is going on with the technical delivery plan.