Investing.com – Astar Network's Shibuya testnet has just launched a major upgrade with the introduction of asynchronous backup, one of three key technological advancements powering its 2.0 release.
With asynchronous support, Polkadot is reducing the block time from 12 seconds to just 6 seconds. The network also increased the maximum block weight from 0.5 seconds to 2 seconds, allowing for a much higher volume of transactions to be processed in the same amount of time – a huge win for developers building decentralized applications on Astar.
Shibuya is Astar Network’s parachain testnet with EVM capabilities, very similar to the Shiden and Astar mainnets. It has nearly identical chain specifications, making it an ideal testing environment for developers planning to launch their decentralized applications on the mainnet.
Astar Network is a parachain of the Polkadot network that supports dApp development using EVM and WASM smart contracts and offers cross-chain communication via cross-consensus messaging (XCM). This flexibility helps dApps interact with multiple blockchains, making the network more versatile.
Asynchronous backup also comes with the ability to reuse failed parachain blocks, reducing resource waste and making the network more efficient overall.
In terms of impact, asynchronous support translates into faster transaction processing and better performance, increasing the network’s capacity from 100,000 to one million transactions per second. This allows Polkadot to handle much more traffic without any issues, which is crucial for supporting larger and more complex decentralized applications.
The upgrade also promises increases in block space production time and transaction volume per block, claiming to offer eight times more throughput while keeping the network secure.
Despite the technical jump, DOT price showed a muted reaction to the news. The token rose slightly by 1.16% over the past 24 hours, settling around $4.23.
Polkadot recently launched the Join-Accumulate Machine (JAM) Gray Paper, a development that combines elements of Polkadot and .
