Tezos has been upgraded to Talin, the block times will drop to 6 seconds
Tezos, the Layer-1 proof-of-stake blockchain network, implemented its latest protocol update, Talin, on Saturday, reducing the base layer time to 6 seconds.
The latest update is the 20th protocol update, which reduces block times, lowers storage costs and reduces latency, resulting in faster network latency, Tezos announced.
Talin also allows all validators on the network, known as “adders,” to attest to each block, attesting to blocks rather than a set of validators, which is how validators verified blocks in previous versions of the protocol, a Tezos spokesperson explained.
“This is achieved by combining hundreds of signatures per block into just one using BLS cryptographic signatures. It opens the door to further block time reductions by easing the burden on nodes.”
The update introduced an address indexing mechanism that eliminates “redundant” address data, reducing storage requirements for applications running on Tezos.
According to a Tezos spokesperson, the addressable mechanism improves storage efficiency by a factor of 100.
The latest update to Tezos features a growing number of use cases by pushing faster and more scalable blockchain networks with more transactions per second and reduced settlement times.
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Block times have come a long way since the first generation of blockchains
The first generation of blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum had speeds of around seven transactions per second (TPS) and 15-30 TPS.
The Bitcoin protocol produces blocks every 10 minutes, which is challenging for daily payments and transactions at the base layer.
These slower network speeds have pushed both protocols to scale with layer-2 (L2) networks that handle transaction performance.
In the case of Bitcoin, this is done through the Lightning Network, where payment channels are opened between two or more entities that carry out a series of transactions off-chain, posting the net balance to the underlying layer after the payment channel is closed.
The Ethereum network relies on an ecosystem of layer-2 networks to scale, and takes a modular approach, separating the performance, communication, and data availability layers.
Monolithic blockchain networks, like Solana, integrate all of these functions into a single layer, rather than deploying them in L2.
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