Cardano’s scaling overhaul hit by a user confidence gap widened by ADA’s slump and wallet exploit

Cardano has opened public testing for a major throughput upgrade and advanced a mainnet hard fork, pushing forward the blockchain’s most consequential architectural changes in years. These milestones are arriving alongside a sharp decline in ADA and a multimillion-dollar wallet exploit, widening the divide between Cardano’s engineering progress and the condition of the ecosystem built [ ]