Sonic Research has announced the new SonicCS 2.0 protocol, designed to enhance the speed and efficiency of blockchain technologies. The protocol is built on a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) architecture and promises significant improvements over its predecessor.
Overview of SonicCS 2.0
SonicCS 2.0 stands out with its overlapping selection mechanisms that allow for the parallel ordering of operations. It organizes transaction data into a directed acyclic graph (DAG) to determine which transactions will be included in the chain.
Advantages of the New Protocol
Tests have shown that the new protocol runs on average 2 times faster than the previous version while reducing memory usage by 68%. In this new protocol, voting structures are modeled with 0-1 matrix representations, enabling more efficient election calculations. This contributes to high performance with lower resource consumption.
Expectations and Future Steps
The Sonic team announced that the new consensus protocol will be enabled in the upcoming Sonic client release in the coming weeks. Developers also stated that a more detailed technical report on SonicCS 2.0 will be shared soon.
SonicCS 2.0 represents a significant update for Sonic Research, aimed at enhancing blockchain technologies' performance. The new DAG-based protocol could change the approach to implementing transactions in the network.
