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Devs suggest to remove Solana block limit to be able to optimize performance


The Web3 Infrastructure Company Jump Crypto has suggested to remove the fixed limit of Solana’s compute block to strengthen the network performance and to be insulting validators with suboptimal hardware to upgrade.

Jump, building a high-performance firedancer validator client for Solana, is pushing for SIMD-0370 Proposal to implement once after upgrading Allenglow, Solana Research Company Anza Says on Saturday.

The alphanglow passes to a Near-poured vote Earlier this month and set to deploy to a Testnet in December.

By removing static block caps, slower validators skip more complex blocks, leaving them to hold better validators, Anza, a company that appeared in Solana labs:

“It creates a performance flywheel: I -block Producers are packing more transactions to earn more fees. Validators that skip blocks are losing rewards, so they upgrade hardware and that -optimizing the code. Better performance throughout the network means safe to push the limits.”

Source: Anza

The SIMD-0370 comes from the midst of a broader effort to improve the Social Network stability and Validator’s client’s base varies, with the launch of the Mainnet Firedancer in September 2024 in a limited capacity.

Solana has been a popular retail blockchain in recent years due to high-speed, low-paid transactions and plethora of decentralized apps. Decentralized Exchange of Solana’s exchange also has Flipped Ethereum’s On some occasions this year.

However, a sudden increase in network activity leads to Network outages in the pastwhich motivates the need for additional upgrades to ensure stability and a smooth user experience.

Earlier proposal aimed at raising the fixed block limit

The fixed limit of Solana compute unit is currently set to 60 million compute units. Without a fixed limit, the Block size will be measured based on how many transactions a validator can fit into a block.

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The proposal is coming four months after Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder Stand up Increasing the compute block limit to 100 million CU under SIMD-0286 in May.

Engineer raises concerns over centralization risks

While the proposal aims to insult validators to upgrade hardware to earn more fees, it can create centralization risks, engineer Akhilesh singhania Says In GitHub:

“Another type of centralization we can see is that if larger validators are constantly upgrading to more expensive hardware, the smaller cannot be able to upgrade will be forced to go down. So as a result, we can conclude fewer large validators.”

Allenglow is tapped to be the biggest upgrade of Solana’s protocol ever

Anza, who suggested the allenglow proof-of-stake mechanism On May 19, a successful implementation said is “the biggest change in Solana’s main protocol” and even position Solana to Compete with the current Internet infrastructure.