Implementing the Blueprint: Starcoin Forges Real-World Speed for a Scalable Future

Last week, we proudly announced a monumental achievement: the successful integration of Starcoin’s DAG consensus protocol with our Dual-VM architecture. This was a landmark moment, proving that our vision of a high-speed, secure, and versatile blockchain was not just a blueprint, but a functional reality.

But in the world of blockchain, a functional blueprint is just the beginning. The real challenge — and our ongoing mission — is to ensure that theoretical breakthroughs translate into tangible, real-world performance for every user. We’re now deep into the critical work of making our DAG’s parallel execution not just possible, but a true powerhouse of speed and efficiency.

From Code to Life: Unlocking True Parallel Power

The promise of a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) consensus like ours is immense: the ability to process multiple blocks and transactions in parallel, far beyond the limitations of traditional linear blockchains. Our initial merge proved this could work, but now, our engineers are meticulously fine-tuning the engine to truly unleash this power.

Imagine building a high-performance race car. First, you assemble the engine (the DAG and Dual-VM integration). Now, you’re on the track, pushing it to its limits, identifying every tiny friction, and meticulously tuning it for maximum speed and endurance.

Our latest efforts focus on two crucial areas:

1. Forging a Smarter Transaction Factory: To truly understand and optimize our network’s speed, we need to push it to its absolute limits. Our engineers have been hard at work enhancing our transaction factory. This isn't just a simple tool; it's a sophisticated stress-testing powerhouse designed to:

• Simulate Real-World Load: Accurately create transactions from hundreds or thousands of different accounts simultaneously. This mirrors genuine network usage, allowing us to see how the system performs under pressure.
• Flood the Network with Efficiency: The factory now handles batch transfers and leverages new RPC interfaces for batch reading and writing to the transaction pool. This ensures we can flood the network with a high volume of transactions in the most efficient way possible, pushing the DAG to its processing limits.

2. Turbocharging Multi-threaded Execution: The DAG’s parallel processing capability relies heavily on how efficiently our software uses your computer’s multiple cores. To maximize this, we’re refactoring our multi-threaded execution using a powerful library called Rayon. This ensures that tasks are split up and processed across multiple CPU cores with optimal efficiency and safety, translating the theoretical benefits of parallel block creation into actual, tangible speed gains for transaction processing.

The Power of Proactive Engineering: Beyond the Hype

What truly defines this phase of development is our proactive approach. We’re not waiting for users to report slowdowns; we’re actively seeking out and eliminating bottlenecks. This commitment is evidenced by:

• Continuous Stress Testing: The phrase “continuous stress testing” is an ongoing, iterative process where we constantly push the network to its breaking point, observe its behavior, and identify precisely where further improvements are needed.
• Self-Critical Improvement: This work directly follows an earlier realization that our previous transaction factory wasn't capable of accurately reflecting the true TPS under the DAG. This honest self-assessment and commitment to building better tools for measurement demonstrate a mature engineering discipline.

What This Means for Your Future on Starcoin

For you, the user, this deep-seated work translates directly into a superior blockchain experience:

• Blazing Fast Transactions, Guaranteed
• Smoother, More Reliable Interactions
• A Network Built to Grow

The integration of DAG and Dual-VM was our blueprint for a scalable future. This ongoing work is about building that future, brick by painstaking brick, to deliver unparalleled speed and efficiency to everyone on the Starcoin network.

About Starcoin

Starcoin provides the utmost security from the origin via its enhanced PoW consensus and Secure smart contract, using the language of Move. Through layered and flexible interoperability, it optimizes the building of ecosystems such as DeFi, NFTs, Gaming, etc., with higher efficiency and convenience. This process redefines value by empowering every participant in the ecosystem to enjoy the multiplication of values.

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