š„ Polkadot (DOT) Ecosystem Recap: Here are the Latest Advancements
šŗ Polkadot has recently improved its network performance, significantly boosting the speed and capacity for processing transactions.
šŗ In addition to its technical advancements, the protocol is exploring a potential $8.8 million sponsorship deal with the American soccer club Inter Miami.
šø Whatās New Around Polkadot?
The blockchain protocol made the headlines in the past few days due to completing someĀ importantĀ advancements. AsĀ CryptoPotatoreported, it enabled Asynchronous Backing on the network.Ā The mechanism represents āan optimized approach forĀ how parachain blocksĀ are validatedĀ by the Relay Chain.ā
The Relay Chain is the central chain and is of critical importance to the Polkadotās ecosystem.Ā It facilitates communication and interoperability between theĀ differentĀ parachains and handles the inter-chain messaging passing (XCMP) protocol.
Polkadotās team announced that blocks are produced twice as fast following that upgrade, while available blockspaceĀ was boostedĀ by 6-10 times. ā3-5x more extrinsic per block and higher utilization of parachain blocksā are two additional consequences of the development.
āAsync Backing boosts throughput by 8x, without sacrificing security, paving the way for supporting Web3 applications across verticals such as gaming and DeFi. It brings Web2 scale into the reach of Web3, which is crucial for large-scale platforms like Mythical Games,ā the team stated.
šø The Previous Endeavors
Several weeks ago,Ā Polkadot released the Join-Accumulate Machine (JAM) Gray Paper.It represents a prospective design to foster theĀ advancement of the Relay Chain and combines elements of Polkadot and Ethereum.
āJAM provides a global singleton permissionless object environmentāmuch like the smart-contract environment pioneered by Ethereumāpaired with secure sideband computation parallelized over a scalable node network, a proposition pioneered by Polkadot.ā the teamĀ explainedĀ at the time.