What does it mean for a blockchain to be asynchronous?
summary
Asynchronous backing is rolling out on Rococo soon and it lets collators pre-produce parachain candidates so blocks can be authored 6 to 12 seconds before relay inclusion, reducing relay block time from 12s to 6s block time and increasing authoring windows. Backers remain bonded and slashing economics stay intact (validators roughly $10M DOT bonded, parachain lease ≈ $1M), assigned redundantly in groups of five. Initial params are max candidate depth = 3 and allowed ancestry length = 2. Roadmap targets 500 validators/100 cores, then 1,000/200 cores and support for 1,000+ parachains.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to async backing
- 1:17Defining backing in Polkadot
- 2:57Enshrined and unique benefits
- 5:34Asynchronous blockchains
- 8:05Pipelining and technical details
- 10:48New protocol parameters
- 12:02Upgrade process for teams
- 13:58Performance benefits
- 16:15Scaling roadmap and future
