It appears to be like like Cupid has aimed his bow on the Cardano neighborhood this 12 months because the crew at Enter Output has introduced a serious improve that’s scheduled to happen on Valentine’s Day.

Dubbed the “Valentine” improve, this technical feat will deliver new Plutus SECP cryptographic primitives to the Cardano community.

Rebecca Hopwood, the neighborhood coordinator at Enter Output, experiences that following a interval of neighborhood testing and shut collaboration with stake pool operators (SPOs), builders and change engineering groups, an replace proposal has been submitted by a joint Enter Output, Cardano Basis and EMURGO technical crew to improve the Cardano mainnet to protocol v8.

“We’re thrilled to announce that the Valentine improve is lastly upon us, marking a important milestone within the evolution of the Cardano community,” she wrote.

The improve is about to take impact on Feb. 14, a becoming time to declare your love for the community.

For these seeking to get in on the motion, SPOs and Cardano node customers are inspired to improve to the most recent model, 1.35.5. It’s price noting that any model previous to 1.35.4 won’t be appropriate with protocol model 8 and won’t work on the mainnet after the improve.

This much-anticipated improve will deliver a bouquet of advantages to the Cardano neighborhood, together with better interoperability and safe cross-chain dApp improvement.

The brand new built-in capabilities will add a particular contact of safety to Plutus, making it simpler for builders to work with different blockchains and assist signatures akin to ECDSA and Schnorr.

Preparations for this improve have been underway for a while. With over 80% of block-producing nodes already operating the required new node, the improve is sort of able to be deployed on the mainnet.

IOG and the Cardano Basis are dedicated to conserving the neighborhood knowledgeable of its progress and encourage everybody to remain near their channels for the most recent updates.