Cardano (ADA) soon even more decentralized?

Cardano is maturing but still has some construction sites. Communication between stake pool operators will soon no longer be a part of this.While the all-time highs are falling like flies with smart contract primus Ethereum, everything but stagnation prevails in the camp of potential “Ethereum killers.” Cardano is considered one of the more promising candidates that could knock Ethereum off its pedestal in the long term. Of course, when it comes to the developer community and decentralization, Ethereum still plays in a different league than Cardano — not least because of its first-mover advantage. However, the latter is approaching its next upgrade with Seven Mile Boots, with which the Cardano mainnet will integrate smart contracts.The Cardano network has also made significant progress recently with regard to its decentralization. The three Cardano organizations IOHK, Emurgo, and the Cardano Foundation were solely responsible for the production of blocks up to the “Shelley” hard fork in summer 2020. This influence was gradually reduced. Since March 31 of this year, Cardano blocks have been created 100 percent by a decentralized network of stake pools. At the time of going to press, the Cardano network had 2,480 such stake pools — and the trend was upwards.Stake pools must constantly communicate with each other to exchange information about transactions and create new blocks. This is done with the help of so-called relay nodes, which are part of every stake pool in addition to core nodes that are responsible for block production. Since the “Shelley” hard fork, stake pool operators have a free hand when it comes to which relay nodes they communicate with. This is to be understood literally because the address is entered manually using the stake pool operators. As a result, you have to constantly check whether the nodes you are controlling are still…