In a bold shift for the Roadmap of Solana’s (SOL), the Jump Crypto’s FireDancer Development Team has submitted a proposalknown as SIMD-0370, which will remove the limit of the compute unit of the block level.
Change, which the team suggested will be implemented following the expansion of The upgrading of allenglowA new regime of throughput can be unlocked by letting the block manufacturers with larger blocks.
Under today’s design, each block is tied by a maximum allowable compute units, a safety proposal and maximum work load which means preventing validators being overly overwhelmed. Currently, Solana limit is 60 million compute-unit. Earlier this year, another group of Solana Core developers submitted a paper that argued To lift the limit to 100 million compute-unit.
But with the upcoming upgrade of Allenglow, some developers said the cap was no longer needed. And if that cap is raised, the blocks can fit a lot of transactions they can, depending on how high their validators are.
Supporters said this flexibility could make Solana more resilient in times of high demand, such as when new tokens were launching or DeFI spike activity. Larger blocks mean that many transactions can go through, reducing congestion types and traders fail that users fail.
However, some argue that blocks now in Solana are not full so there will be no tangible differences for end users. “We do not have the time where the demand is to spike median fees or average fees. So it is unclear that the explosion capacity will be significant,” Anatoly Yakoveneko, the founder of Solana Blockchain, wrote, In the developer proposal forum.
The proposal is still in the discussion phase, and the Solana community will have to decide if the benefits are beyond risks. If approved, it can mark a new chapter in Solana’s story of Socaling.
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