Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano (ADA) has announced they are pretty much on schedule for the July 28th Hard fork. In a YouTube video, he also states that Stake Pool Operators and Pioneers are to migrate and start producing blocks on the Shelley Mainnet.
The IOHK CEO noted that they are working on a simple Erc-20 converter, this will help migrate erc-20 tokens to a Cardano Testnet in a test run. An external company is taking charge of these developments, through this converter, moving of tokens from the Ethereum Network to the Cardano Network becomes possible and easy.
Valuable DApps that would perform useful functions within the ecosystem would be launched by the Plutus Foundation and Guogen Developments team.
Charles also said that by December, developers will be able to create, test and execute Smart Contracts.
Everyone or company that plans on building a DApp on Cardanos Blockchain is working with this acronym in mind ACID which stands for Adoption, Collaboration, Incentive and Deployment. In the video, Hoskinson explains these terms.
Charles plans to stay with the project until all that is needed is put in place, after which the Cardano project will operate in a decentralized manner.
You can see full video here