Major Technical Upgrade of Astar Network: Asynchronous Support Function Officially Activated

Recently, the Astar network successfully activated the asynchronous support function module on its mainnet, marking a significant technological leap for the ecosystem. This upgrade will significantly enhance the network's performance, response speed, and scalability, while maintaining the core economic operation logic of the ecosystem.

Asynchronous support technology originally stemmed from the relay chain of a well-known blockchain project and is a revolutionary technological innovation. It fundamentally reshapes the production and verification methods of parallel chain blocks, significantly increasing the network's throughput and scalability. This has led to a multiple-fold improvement in the transactions per second (TPS) capacity of parallel chains. At the same time, network efficiency and resource utilization have also been further optimized, providing developers and users with a better experience and achieving a more streamlined and scalable operating environment.

Significant Changes After Asynchronous Support Activation

1. The block production time has been reduced from 12 seconds to about 6 seconds, doubling the speed of new block generation and significantly improving network response efficiency.

2. Improvement of Eco-Friendliness: The token emission per block is reduced by approximately 50%, but the number of blocks is doubled. This design can maintain the current level of inflation unchanged, keeping the annual total issuance stable.

3. All time calculations based on blockchain (such as governance lock-up periods, application staking periods, etc.) remain unchanged to ensure continuity and stability of related mechanisms.

How Asynchronous Support Works

Asynchronous support fundamentally improves the logic of block generation and verification by introducing a parallel processing mechanism through the integration of parallel chain blocks. It allows for the simultaneous processing of multiple pre-prepared blocks, rather than waiting for one block to be fully processed before generating the next. This significantly reduces latency and enhances overall operational efficiency.

In the new operating model, parallel chain blocks are generated every 6 seconds, with an execution time of up to 2 seconds, achieving a rate four times higher than before. This enhances the network's ability to handle complex transactions and large data loads. By allowing multiple uncontained parallel chain blocks to coexist, the network becomes more resilient and can utilize block space more efficiently.

These improvements make Astar a more scalable and efficient ecosystem. Transaction throughput has doubled, latency has been further reduced, obstacles to the overall ecological operation have been minimized, and flexible scheduling capabilities have been enhanced, providing more significant technical support for users and developers.

Impact on Developers

1. Faster block production: Developers can achieve more efficient confirmations and more responsive application interactions in a shorter time.

2. Greater throughput capacity: After the upgrade, the ecosystem can handle more transactions and messages in parallel.

3. Improve user experience of applications: Real-time applications such as payment, trading platforms, social tools, and on-chain games will be upgraded to provide a smoother experience. Developers will be able to design more interactive and low-latency products.

This upgrade has pushed Astar to a whole new level of performance, allowing it to support a higher number of users and more complex application scenarios. Importantly, this change has not disrupted the existing staking logic, governance cycles, or token inflation mechanisms, which is good news for Astar's users.

For developers, this change introduces a faster technological pace. While the duration based on blocks remains consistent, the off-chain ecosystem assuming a 12-second interval may need updates. Developers need to carefully review and adjust their scripts, backend services, or monitoring tools.

Currently, the upgrade has been validated on the test network. The governance proposal for asynchronous support in the Astar ecosystem has been passed, encouraging developers to test and build in an asynchronous environment.

This upgrade not only enhances technical performance but also provides sustained momentum for the future development of the Astar ecosystem. It paves the way for supporting large-scale, high-performance next-generation decentralized applications, contributing to the vision of a truly scalable, interoperable, and efficient multi-chain ecosystem.