Ava Labs has presented a brief overview of its new development aimed at enhancing the Avalanche blockchain, making it smoother and faster. The new update, named Vryx, is designed to process up to 100,000 transactions per second (TPS).

This solution addresses one of the key and long-term challenges in blockchain technology: scaling networks to handle large transactions without compromising security or decentralization. Ava Labs plans to implement this technology in the HyperSDK test network, a toolkit for creating high-performance blockchains, by the second quarter of 2024.

A critical element of this update is a complex system called 'Distinct State Machine Replication' (DSMR). DSMR changes the traditional way of processing transactions by separating the transactions and their verification. In conventional blockchains, transactions are checked and approved in a step-by-step process known as State Machine Replication (SMR). Vryx's DSMR allows for the distribution and ordering of transactions before their verification, increasing transaction speed and enabling more operations to be performed simultaneously.

However, this system could lead to the spread of invalid transactions (transactions that should not be processed because they do not incur a fee) across the network, potentially leading to network congestion with unnecessary data. Vryx plans to address this issue by ensuring that only fee-based transactions circulate, saving resources and maintaining system efficiency.