On June 15, Cardano reached the most consequential single day of its Voltaire governance era, with the Van Rossem hard fork hitting its mainnet go/no-go decision point, network readiness running well ahead of any prior upgrade, and an official outcome expected imminently.
This is the first hard fork in Cardano's history initiated through its Voltaire on-chain governance framework rather than by Input Output Global acting unilaterally, which means a community-elected layer of Delegated Representatives and a Constitutional Committee, not a founder, decides whether it ships.
