#World Cup Predictions: 100,000 USDT Daily #HTX Invites You to Share 600K USDT in Gift Packs #BTC Prophet: 20-Day 380 Million HTX Challenge Cardano (ADA) launched the public testnet for its Leios scaling protocol today, June 23. It is the most significant technical milestone the network has hit in years, and it arrives with ADA sitting at a five-year price low.
The testnet carries the name Musashi Dojo, after 16th-century samurai Miyamoto Musashi. Its five phases map to the chapters of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings: Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void, progressing from basic design validation through adversarial testing and into mainnet readiness.
The Price Problem
The launch lands in difficult conditions. ADA hit its lowest level in five years this month, down roughly 35% over the past 30 days. Meanwhile, its all-time high of $3.09 came on September 2, 2021, today’s price of $0.16 sits 95% below that peak.
Cardano’s (ADA) price has been struggling, although there have been technical advances. Image Source: BeInCrypto
The backdrop is bleak. At first, the analytics platform TapTools shut down earlier this year while Cardano cancelled its 2026 Singapore Summit. Hoskinson warned of a “wave of failures” among Cardano DeFi projects in the same period.
Cardano has lived through an unusual contradiction. The network kept shipping and moving toward its roadmap, but the price went nowhere. Leios removes the most persistent technical criticism of the chain: that the base layer cannot scale.
Whether the market reprices over the next five months of testing, or waits for mainnet, remains the question that defines Cardano’s second half of 2026.
How Leios Works
Leios runs as an overlay on Cardano’s existing Ouroboros Praos mechanism. When demand rises, an elected slot leader produces an additional “endorser block” that travels in parallel with the standard Praos block.
The upgrade targets scaling Cardano from its current throughput of 4.5 KB/s to 200 KB/s. The official roa
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