Innovation Fatigue: The Cardano Community Takes a Deep Breath
Cardano Staking, made possible by a hard fork combinator (HFC) event in July of 2020 (Epoch 208, Slot 4492800), ushered in the “Shelley Era” of the network’s roadmap. This event opened the floodgates of interest and activity in the community. Since then, it’s been a mad dash from the top of one hill, to the next, and the next. We are now seeing signs that this has begun to lead to some innovation fatigue. This is something the community is starting to sense - with hope that the “sensing” will lead to healthy corrections and/or mitigations.
A brief look back
In July 2020, the Shelly HFC event enabled liquid open staking for ADA holders, and permissionless stake pool operation by…