Major update proposal about increasing Cardano block size to be implemented later today
IOHK’s Twitter account is teasing a major update on Cardano’s mainnet due today at 20:20 UTC.
Block size to grow 10%
Developers will increase the block size by 10%—8 kilobytes. That would mean adding 8 Kb to 80 Kb of the current block size. This suggestion was made last week before the weekend kicked off.
This means a substantial improvement of the Cardano network, thanks to which the throughput and performance of dApps will continue to grow. This upgrade is part of the wave of Cardano network improvements planned for this year by the developer teams.
As soon as this improvement is made, the IOHK team will monitor the performance of the Cardano network closely over at least five days (one epoch) and will see what next increment to make to it.
Overall, with the massive growth in Cardano transaction volume recently, the team plans to improve the network very carefully and regularly.
Cardano improvements made this year
Last month, during the Cardano MidMonth Development Update, which was live on YouTube, Cardano’s head of architecture, John Alan Woods, summarized that this year so far, the size of each block on the network has increased from 64 Kb to 80 Kb (the 11% upgrade to 80 Kb was made in early February from 72 Kb)—a 25% increase overall.
The developers also added more memory units on the Plutus side for smart contracts, from 10 million units to 14 million. At four memory units per block, their quantity also began to grow, from 50 million to 56 million. Woods said at the time that in future times they plan to increase that amount to 62 million.
Despite being careful with the introduction of any changes, Woods stated that IOHK was implementing something new on Cardano every three weeks.
