Amaru beta on October 27: What it means for the Cardano price

Published on 10/25/2026 at 13:02 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Epoch 660 processed 1.78 million transactions in five days. Cardano price is 0.2080 USD as of October 25, 2026, down 1.54 percent.

Network upgrades and activity

A scheduled Amaru beta for Cardano is set for October 27, 2026.
Epoch 660 recorded 1.78 million transactions during its five-day period.
The Cardano price stands at 0.2080 USD as of October 25, 2026, 1.54 percent below the UTC daily close of October 24, 2026.
Intersect opened a Dijkstra public testnet on October 23, 2026, using node 11.1.3.

Cardano, XCCRYPTOADA0, Illustration mit AI erstellt.

Cardano (ADA) has an Amaru beta scheduled for October 27, 2026, marking the next dated step in its node development. Admiral Markets reported that Amaru is an alternative node implementation planned for that date.

Amaru beta carries an October 27 date

Amaru is designed as a second full-node implementation written in Rust. A node is software that validates transactions and helps maintain a blockchain network. The October 27, 2026, beta date places the release within the next scheduled development window, while the report describes it as a roadmap milestone rather than a mainnet activation.

The planned release concerns Cardano's network infrastructure, not a change to the ADA supply. The Admiral Markets report also identifies October 27, 2026, as the date for the beta version of the alternative node.

Epoch 660 recorded 1.78 million transactions

Cardano's recent network activity provides a separate data point. TechBullion reported that the network processed 1,780,896 transactions during the five-day period ending October 11, 2026. The report said the total exceeded the previous record of 1,566,974 transactions.

The same report recorded 337,720 ADA in transaction fees during that period and cited a daily record of 542,532 transactions on October 8, 2026. Separately, Intersect said on October 23, 2026, that a public Dijkstra testnet was available with node 11.1.3 and one-day epochs. A testnet is a network used for development and testing before a mainnet deployment.

The Cardano price is 0.2080 USD as of October 25, 2026, 1.54 percent below the UTC daily close of October 24, 2026. According to Investing.com, the daily high is 0.2093 USD, the daily low is 0.2076 USD, market capitalization is 7.65 billion USD at rank 15, and 24-hour volume is 263.15 million USD. The circulating supply is 36.81 billion ADA.