Dijkstra testnet opens October 22, 2026: What it means for the Cardano price

Published on 10/23/2026 at 07:12 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Epoch 660 processed 1.78 million transactions. The Cardano price is 0.2202 USD on October 23, 2026, down 0.98 percent.

Testnet progress and network activity

Cardano's DijkstraNet became publicly available on October 22, 2026, ahead of testing for protocol 12.
CIP-0113 went live on October 7, 2026, giving issuers programmable compliance rules for regulated tokens.
The Cardano price stands at 0.2202 USD as of October 23, 2026, 0.98 percent below the UTC daily close of October 22, 2026.
Epoch 660 processed 1.78 million transactions and generated 337,720 ADA in fees between October 6 and October 11, 2026.

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Cardano (ADA) opened its public DijkstraNet testnet on October 22, 2026, ahead of a planned move to protocol version 12. The development places a new testing milestone alongside a Cardano price of 0.2202 USD as of October 23, 2026, down 0.98 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 22, 2026.

DijkstraNet prepares protocol version 12

Crypto.news reported on October 22, 2026, that DijkstraNet became available to stake pool operators after an October 21, 2026, restart. The test network was running node 11.1.3, while node 11.2 is intended to support the testnet move to protocol version 12, known as Dijkstra.

The report describes DijkstraNet as a testing path for Dijkstra features without Leios, while MusashiNet gives downstream teams access to a prototype that includes the Leios feature set. A testnet is a separate blockchain environment where operators can evaluate software before a mainnet deployment.

CIP-0113 went live on October 7

Cardano Foundation said on October 7, 2026, that CIP-0113 programmable tokens went live on Cardano mainnet. The standard lets issuers of stablecoins, funds and other regulated assets attach compliance rules to native Cardano tokens, including identity checks, sanctions screening and transfer restrictions.

The rules apply to tokens that use the standard rather than automatically applying to ADA. The foundation said the launch included support from Eternl, GeroWallet, CardanoScan and BloxBean, and that the standard did not require a hard fork, meaning a change to the network's underlying consensus rules.

Epoch 660 set a 1.78 million transaction record

TechBullion reported that Epoch 660 processed 1,780,896 transactions during the five-day period ending October 11, 2026. The network also recorded 337,720 ADA in fees, while October 8, 2026, brought a daily record of 542,532 transactions. These figures describe network use, not a direct change in ADA ownership or price.

ADA trades at 0.2202 USD

According to Investing.com, ADA trades at 0.2202 USD as of October 23, 2026, down 0.98 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 22, 2026. The daily high is 0.2268 USD and the daily low (UTC day) is 0.2195 USD. Market capitalization is 8.11 billion USD, ranking Cardano 15th, and 24-hour volume is 312.42 million USD. Circulating supply is 36.81 billion ADA.