The goal of the next Polkadot upgrade is to increase the number of ecosystem parachains to 1,000.
The news was shared during a Lisbon conference for software developers called sub0. Polkadot’s core developers are planning to increase the ecosystem’s current parachain limit of 100 in the future with the use of software upgrades, with the ultimate goal of onboarding 1,000 parachains.
The “asynchronous backing” feature is one such modification to Polkadot’s parachain consensus process. Parachain block time is expected to be reduced from 12 seconds to 6 seconds after the upgrade, while block space is expected to be increased by a factor of 5-10.
Thanks to elastic scaling and real-time coretime, “asynchronous backing” offers versatile scheduling for our future scaling efforts. Polkadot can accommodate 1,000 parachains and 1 million+ transactions per second, and we have a solid plan to get there. Polkadot can be scaled indefinitely since “the design is there,” as Parity’s lead engineer Sophia Gold put it.
In a presentation at the sub0 developer conference in Lisbon, Parity Technologies, a major contributor to Polkadot, said that in around two weeks, a version of asynchronous backing will be uploaded to Polkadot’s Rococo testnet. The expected date of the mainnet launch is still in flux.
Polkadot acts as an interoperability network, bridging together multiple parachains (blockchains tailored to particular applications) that draw their security from the main Relay Chain.
Gold also said that sequential backing would allow Polkadot to significantly increase its number of Polkadot validators, reaching around 1,000 by the end of 2024. He called this “the most important evolution of parachain consensus since we started parachains almost two years ago.”
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