Cardano (ADA) is preparing for one of its major upgrades, “Usoboros Leios,” to increase speed and efficiency through scalability, setting a new era for Cardano.
Over the years, Cardano has projected itself as a research-driven blockchain by carefully balancing the balance between innovation and academic rigor. In addition to its consensus mechanism, Useboros, Cardano maintains its reputation as a safe and environmentally friendly POS network. However, like other blockchains, scalability remains a serious obstacle as adoption increases, while cheaper transactions continue to increase.
Currently, Cardano is aiming to tackle the challenge with Ouroboros Reios. In other words, by introducing new approaches to block production and transaction processing, Cardano seamlessly enhances throughput and scale for global use.
Scaling to thousands of TPs
At the heart of Leios is an innovative mechanism that separates transaction validation from block propagation and addresses one of the bottlenecks of blockchain scalability. Useboros Leios introduces a layered approach in which blocks are created more effectively and transactions are processed in parallel. This breakthrough allows Cardano to process thousands of transactions (TPS) per second, projecting a monumental leap from his current capabilities. Cardano has set benchmarks on financial and blockchain spheres with the aim of meeting potential advanced levels.
Why Upgrades are Important
Integration of Ouroboros Leios into the mainnet is to enrich ecosystem scalability, as well as support Dapps (decentralized applications), building Defi protocols, and providing enterprise solutions without network congestion and cost spikes. For businesses, this new upgrade signals that Cardano is ready for mass adoption and can easily support real-world use cases.
For $ADA owners, this next-generation innovation could increase the demand for tokens as it enhances its real utility and appeal and strengthens its role as a next-generation blockchain.
What’s ahead?
For now, Cardano’s development team, Input Output Global (IOG), is testing Usoboros Leios to ensure its robustness. A successful deployment of Leios could potentially enhance Cardano’s technology and prepare it to act as a great infrastructure for global scale applications.