Cardano price weighs on upgrade progress as Dijkstra testing advances
Published on 11/01/2026 at 07:00 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWSCardano upgrade enters testing phase
- Intersect reported on October 30 that Node 11.2 is available as a pre-release for Dijkstra testing.
- Node 11.3 is expected to include Leios, but its timing and the full scaling path remain subject to testing and governance.
- Investing.com showed ADA at 0.1935 USD on November 1, with a market capitalization of 7.10 billion USD.
The Cardano price stood at 0.1935 USD on November 1, according to Investing.com. The page showed a market capitalization of 7.10 billion USD, 24-hour volume of 136.67 million USD and a rank of 15. The displayed quote was marked as real-time at 22:53:24, but the page did not provide a verified UTC daily closing comparison for the previous day.
Dijkstra testing moves forward
The most recent development is the release of Cardano Node 11.2 as a pre-release. In its October 30 weekly update, Intersect said the version carries the full Dijkstra hard-fork feature set apart from Leios. The release is intended to move DijkstraNet into the Dijkstra era so that downstream teams can begin integration testing.
Stake pool operators on DijkstraNet are expected to upgrade before the testnet hard fork. Intersect also said that developers, wallet teams and infrastructure providers can begin onboarding through the published configuration files. The test network uses one-day epochs and has an explorer available for monitoring.
Leios remains the larger catalyst
Node 11.3 is planned to include Leios and the complete Dijkstra feature set. Intersect said a tagged pre-release was realistically three to four weeks away, with two weeks the earliest estimate. That is a development timetable, not a confirmed mainnet launch date. The upgrade path still requires performance testing, constitutional discussions and governance decisions.
Cardano's official website reports that the network processed 2,634,911 transactions during the 30 days from September 26 to October 26, 2026. That figure is a network activity snapshot rather than a forecast of future demand. The planned scaling work therefore remains important for investors, but its economic value depends on whether developers and applications convert higher technical capacity into sustained usage.
Price remains below yearly peak
Investing.com listed ADA's 52-week range at 0.1385 to 0.6188 USD, while the circulating supply was shown as 36.82 billion ADA against a maximum supply of 45.00 billion ADA. These figures place the current Cardano price much closer to the lower end of its annual range than to its high. The quote page also displayed declines of 7.0016 percent over seven days and 21.5482 percent over one month. Those figures describe market performance; they do not establish that the upgrade news caused the price move.
For investors, the immediate focus is the transition from testnet preparation to measurable software performance and governance progress. Until those steps are completed, Dijkstra and Leios are development milestones rather than confirmed changes to Cardano's mainnet economics.
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