There have been some questions about our focus with regards to protocol development. This post will hopefully provide a clearer picture on what we plan to work on in the next 1-2 years. I’ve made a gantt graph (attached below) to show the roadmap for the major protocol features and improvements. Ple…

@Bowen , thanks for publishing this. What about the idea of introducing high-end HW shards? We expect that Aurora use cases may hit the block size (or a half of block size) quite fast. As a simple solution to it, Aurora shard can run on advanced hardware, which is able to do more operations per seco…

That means we need to have the ability to adjust gas limit individually for each shard and introduce special validators who won’t be able to rotate with validators from other shards. This is similar to the idea of introducing special synchronous shards.

There are several issues with that: It is possible to run a higher-end SSD or CPUs with more performant cores, but it is unlikely that the performance will increase beyond 2x, and if it does we should probably make it a requirement for all of our shards anyway; If Aurora runs on a different shard …

[image] nearmax: If Aurora runs on a different shard that has more performant hardware then we would need a different set of gas fees calibrated for that platform. Calibrating and maintaining gas fees is extremely labor-intense and we should avoid adding new gas fees as much as possible, since …

Gas fees will not scale proportionally, unfortunately.

Yes I just updated Airtable - Gantt last week

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erik.near August 30, 2021, 7:22am 7

Hi, is there a refreshed / updated or dynamic version of this we can refer to for the latest?

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