Mohamed Hussein
Solana has announced a major upgrade that will make the chain more scalable.
Helius, Solana’s development optimization service, announced on Monday the release of Agave v2.2, an update to the network which is expected to increase block capacity by 20% and introduce other improvements to network scalability and throughput.
What will the upgrade bring?
The upgrade will mainly raise the block limits from 50 million to 60 million compute units, which will increase throughput and allow Solana to process more transactions per second. Accordingly, that would make the network more scalable and help the token handle congestion, which has been an issue in the past.
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The network also announced the replacement of Merkle trees with Account Lattice Hash, which will track only the changes rather than the entire data. This significantly reduces the load on the network, according to Ben Hawkins, Head of the Staking Ecosystem at the Solana Foundation.
What does that mean for developers?
The upgrade brings exciting news for developers, as they will be able to pause and update apps when they find bugs, without deleting them. It will also allow them to update small parts of an app instead of reuploading the entire codebase, saving compute resources and time.
Solana also has removed previous restrictions that made it hard for developers to connect different parts of their apps, known as “caller restrictions.” This change allows them to link components directly without using complicated workarounds.
