Tezos, the self-transforming proof-of-stake blockchain, has enabled an upgrade to its core protocol 13, Mumbai, introducing Smart Rollups, a Layer-2 scaling solution, for faster transaction processing speeds.
Tezos Introduces Smart Rollups Through Mumbai
Smart Rollups enable decentralized applications (dapps) to utilize Tezos resources to process large transaction volumes while ensuring rollup integrity and security. This approach will allow the blockchain to process more than one million transactions per second, all without sacrificing decentralization.
Tezos aims to improve scalability and performance with Smart Rollups. Notably, the Mumbai upgrade brings a number of technical features that make the platform developer-friendly.
There’s the WebAssembly runtime environment (WASM), which allows developers to build using common programming languages ββlike Rust, C, and C++. Therefore, it is easier for developers to create and distribute dapps on the proof-of-stake blockchain.
Welcome to #Mumbai β @Tezos ‘ 13th protocol update.
Designed to Evolve. Built to Empower.# Meaning #BlockchainEvolved pic.twitter.com/gAPQqPYfKq
β Tezos (@tezos) March 29, 2023
The upgrade also includes decentralized and open interactive fraud proof. It is an execution environment that allows flexible development and deployment of dapps and advanced rollup features that simplify interactions between different layers.
Further improvements to the mainnet include reducing the block time from 30 to 15 seconds pipelined validation. With this, the blockchain separates the validation from the application of the block and operation, which allows the block and operation to be distributed more quickly.
The upgrade also updates previously existing features, such as Tickets, which will enable direct transfers between users, making them more flexible.
Collaborative Efforts
The Mumbai upgrade comes after months of development collaboration between blockchain developers and the Tezos community. Experts from, among others, the Nomadic Lab, contributed to the upgrade.
Thesis known for its on-chain governance process that involves community participation in approving and validating upgrades. This is beneficial and prevents conflicts that could lead to hard forks like Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash or Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. As such, Mumbai has been validated and approved by the community through the platform’s on-chain governance process prior to activation.
In December, the network activated Lima, which like Mumbai, aims to improve the performance of the public platform. During the last upgrade, developers brought Kernel-Based Optimistic Rollup and pipeline validation for faster block processing times.
#Five features include:
π Update for optimistic rollups
β More pipelining for faster #blockchain
π Introduction to consensus keys
π Repair for tickets
π Ghostnet fixAnd more!# Meaning #BlockchainEvolved
β Tezos (@tezos) December 19, 2022
There are also improvements in Tickets, so that it becomes easier to track tickets and Ghostnet improves arising from the migration from Jakarta to Kathmandu testnets.
A notable improvement in this upgrade is the introduction of a Consensus key that allows the ‘baker’, that is, the validator, to change the “key” without having to change the public address.
However, XTZ, the native token of Tezos, is stable on the last day, it was trading at $1.11, according to CoinMarketCap.
XTZ Price On March 30 | Source: XTZUSDT On Binance, TradingView
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