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Talking with in style Cardano-focused podcaster, ‘bigpey,’ Shahaf said:
“Subsequent month is our purpose to launch the mainnet of Djed and Shen. Proper now, you possibly can play with the testnet on Djed.xyz.”
Bar-Geffen notes that the launch took this lengthy as a result of builders wished to make sure that the stablecoin integrates with Cardano’s Vasil hardfork. Conducting audits additionally added to the delay of the launch. In accordance with the COTI CEO, builders carried out two rigorous audits to check the safety of the stablecoin’s good contract.
“One factor we can’t fail on is safety. If persons are not within the product…, I can dwell with that. I can’t dwell with leaving safety vulnerabilities within the code with out doing all the pieces that we may to make it possible for we block all hedges,” he mentioned.
 
 
In the meantime, he additionally revealed that COTI and IOG would open-source the extremely sophisticated good contract that powers the stablecoin shortly after launch. COTI first introduced the January launch timeline of Djed in the course of the Cardano Summit again in November.
Djed is already poised to realize adoption within the Cardano ecosystem
The Djed algorithmic stablecoin launch comes with many perks to the Cardano blockchain. Djed boasts of being backed by solely cryptocurrencies — together with SHEN, its reserve forex, and ADA, the native token of Cardano.
The stablecoin may possible see very fast adoption resulting from the truth that it’s overcollateralized and has an on-chain proof-of-reserve. COTI already partnered with a number of Cardano decentralized finance protocols to combine the stablecoin at launch.
Nonetheless, this expectation could not play out for a number of causes. For one, belief in algorithmic stablecoins has been notably low within the crypto house for the reason that crash of Terra’s UST and its sister token, LUNA.
Equally, different stablecoin tasks that can compete with Djed are additionally beneath growth within the Cardano ecosystem. Notably, a few of these tasks have additionally run into their very own issues.
Final month, Ardana, an organization creating a fiat-backed totally reserved stablecoin for the Cardano ecosystem, shut down resulting from funding issues. Charles Hodkinson, the IOG CEO, commented that it was unlucky how the undertaking went down. He, nonetheless, stays optimistic that extra tasks will spring up as Cardano grows to change into an ecosystem of blockchains.
