Cardano has announced the Mithril protocol that will focus on speed and efficiency, particularly decreasing the time required for nodes’ syncing.
Most Layer 1s struggle with the blockchain trilemma – how to solve the challenges of scalability, security, and decentralization. To improve scalability, a project must solve the riddle of enhancing speed.
Cardano Mithril Upgrade Aims to Bring Wider Use Cases
Input Output Global (IOG), the engineering team behind Cardano, announced Mithril’s first certified snapshot on the mainnet on Tuesday. The protocol aims to boost nodes’ syncing time without compromising security by retrieving the snapshot of the current blockchain state.
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If someone wants to run the Cardano node, they need to download the full blockchain copy that requires a minimum storage space of 100 gigabytes (GB). But Mithril allows developers to deploy light clients and mobile…
