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

Published on 10/28/2026 at 07:02 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Epoch 660 processed 1.78 million transactions. The Cardano price stands at 0.2059 USD on October 28, 2026, up 0.37 percent.

Network upgrades and activity

A public Dijkstra test environment opened for Cardano participants on October 21, 2026.
Epoch 660 processed 1,780,896 transactions by October 11, 2026, setting a network record.
The Cardano price stands at 0.2059 USD as of October 28, 2026, 0.37 percent above the UTC daily close of October 27, 2026.
Network fees reached 337,720 ADA during the five-day epoch ending October 11, 2026.

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Cardano (ADA) reached a protocol milestone on October 21, 2026, when the public Dijkstra testnet opened for participants, according to Intersect. The Cardano price stands at 0.2059 USD as of October 28, 2026, up 0.37 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 27, 2026, while the token ranks 15th by market capitalization.

Dijkstra testing begins on October 21, 2026

The public Dijkstra testnet is running protocol version 11, known as Conway, with node version 11.1.3, Intersect reported on October 24, 2026. Stake pool operators can onboard through the published configuration files and use a faucet for test assets, while testnet epochs are set to one day.

The upgrade sequence described by Intersect includes a node 11.2 prerelease, a hard-fork initiation action and a transition to protocol version 12, the Dijkstra release. The reported feature set includes nested transactions, account enhancements, guard scripts, Plutus V4, freely withdrawable staking rewards and a new pledge-leverage parameter.

Epoch 660 records 1.78 million transactions

Cardano processed 1,780,896 transactions during Epoch 660, the five-day period ending October 11, 2026, according to TimesTabloid. That total exceeded the prior record of 1,566,974 transactions by 13.65 percent. On October 8, 2026, the network recorded 542,532 transactions in one UTC calendar day, while peak throughput reached approximately 440 transactions per second.

Fees reached 337,720 ADA during the same epoch, which was 9.54 percent above the previous epoch fee record, TimesTabloid reported on October 15, 2026. A separate account of the period noted that transaction totals and daily active addresses use different measurement methods, according to crypto.news on October 13, 2026.

ADA trades at 0.2059 USD on October 28, 2026

According to Investing.com, ADA trades at 0.2059 USD as of October 28, 2026. It is up 0.37 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 27, 2026, with a daily high of 0.2072 USD and a daily low of 0.2012 USD. Investing.com lists Cardano's market capitalization at 7.54 billion USD, rank 15, and 24-hour volume at 182.88 million USD. Circulating supply is 36.82 billion ADA.