Dijkstra testnet opened October 21: What it means for the Cardano price

Published on 10/27/2026 at 07:12 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Cardano logged 1.78 million transactions in Epoch 660. The Cardano price stands at 0.2045 USD as of October 27, 2026, up 0.35 percent.

Network upgrades and usage

Cardano's public Dijkstra testnet became available on October 21, 2026, for stake pool operators and developers.
Epoch 660 recorded 1.78 million transactions during the five-day period ending October 11, 2026.
The Cardano price stands at 0.2045 USD as of October 27, 2026, 0.35 percent above the UTC daily close of October 26, 2026.
The test environment uses Conway protocol version 11, while its next transition requires node 11.2 and a hard-fork initiation action.

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Cardano (ADA) opened its public Dijkstra testnet on October 21, 2026, creating a public staging environment for the network's next protocol transition. The Intersect weekly update on October 24, 2026, said the testnet was available to participants using node version 11.1.3. The Cardano price stands at 0.2045 USD as of October 27, 2026, up 0.35 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 26, 2026.

Public testing starts with Dijkstra

The Dijkstra testnet currently runs Conway protocol version 11, rather than the planned version 12. A hard fork is a coordinated protocol change that moves the network to new rules. Intersect said on October 24, 2026, that the next steps are a node 11.2 prerelease, a hard-fork initiation action and a transition to protocol version 12.

The test environment uses one-day epochs, while Cardano's main network uses five-day epochs, according to Intersect's October 24, 2026, update. Stake pool operators can use published configuration files and a test-token faucet to join the environment. The update also said that Leios, a planned scaling system, is being tested through a separate track rather than running as part of the current public Dijkstra testnet.

Epoch 660 records 1.78 million transactions

Cardano processed 1.78 million transactions during Epoch 660, the five-day period ending October 11, 2026, according to Token Times. The report said the total exceeded the previous record by 13.65 percent and that network fees also reached a new high.

The upgrade timetable remains dependent on software and governance steps. TokenPost reported on October 25, 2026, that the public test environment was still using Conway version 11 and that no date had been listed for the version 12 transition. Its next listed steps were the node 11.2 prerelease and a hard-fork initiation action.

ADA market data on October 27

According to Investing.com, ADA trades at 0.2045 USD as of October 27, 2026, up 0.35 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 26, 2026. The daily high is 0.2080 USD and the daily low (UTC day) is 0.2005 USD. Market capitalization is 7.52 billion USD, ranking Cardano 15th, while 24-hour volume is 249.98 million USD and circulating supply is 36.81 billion ADA.

The public testnet milestone and the Epoch 660 activity describe separate parts of Cardano's current development and usage data. The Cardano price remains a live market measure at the October 27, 2026, stand shown above.