Cardano rolls out public Leios testnet as ADA hits five-year low
Cardano developers have launched the public Leios Musashi Dojo testnet, marking the blockchain's most significant scalability upgrade in years. The launch comes as ADA trades near its lowest level in almost five years.
The testnet is named after the legendary Japanese samurai Miyamoto Musashi, according to BeInCrypto. The testing program is divided into five phases inspired by chapters of his classic treatise, The Book of Five Rings.
Leios operates as an additional layer on top of Cardano's existing Ouroboros Praos consensus mechanism. Under heavy network load, it introduces parallel endorsement blocks, allowing the blockchain to process transactions more efficiently.
According to Input Output, the upgrade is expected to increase Cardano's throughput from the current 4.5 KB/s to 200 KB/s. During the initial rollout, developers aim to improve performance by two to five times before gradually reaching the protocol's full capacity.
Hard fork could arrive in November
More than 84% of delegated representatives participating in governance voted in favor of deploying Leios.Input Output Product Manager Carlos López de la Lara said that if testing proceeds as planned, the mainnet hard fork could take place as early as November 2026.
According to the development team, the upgrade is essential to achieving the goals of the Cardano 2030 roadmap, which targets an increase in monthly transactions from roughly 800,000 to more than 27 million.
Markets await ADA's response
The launch of Musashi Dojo comes during a difficult period for the Cardano ecosystem.Earlier, analytics platform TapTools shut down, Cardano canceled its planned summit in Singapore, and founder Charles Hoskinson warned that the ecosystem could face a wave of DeFi project closures.
So far, the Leios launch has done little to ease pressure on ADA. The token has fallen 7.16% and continues to trade below key moving averages, with the nearest support level located around $0.145.
At the same time, analysts reported that large investors recently accumulated approximately 370 million ADA, while smaller holders continued reducing their positions.
Earlier, Hoskinson revealed that the Cardano team is conducting a comprehensive review of decentralized governance models. According to him, the research covers around 11,000 DAOs as well as existing academic literature.
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