So will @Somnia_Network hit this wall?
Most people get excited when a blockchain claims fast speeds. But what they don’t think about is what happens when validators increase and usage scales.
In almost every high-performance chain, the original benchmark, TPS, latency, block finality is usually tested with a small, tightly coordinated validator set. Everything is lean, clean, optimized.
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But once the number of validators grows, coordination overhead increases.
And @Somnia_Network wants to have 100 validators before TGE...
More nodes = more gossip = more latency.
Consensus takes longer. Blocks take slightly more time to propagate and finalize.
And chains that brag about “10,000 TPS” can slow to 1,000 or less in real-world conditions
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So will @Somnia_Network hit this wall?
Somnia is designed for gaming and high-throughput interactions
That means it needs fast block times and high TPS under load, not just in test environments.But as it scales and attracts more validators (and eventually decentralizes), there’s a tradeoff to monitor:
+ More validators improve security and censorship resistance
+ But they can also reduce throughput and increase block time variability
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The key question: can @Somnia_Network optimize for both?
If Somnia or HAS already adopted adaptive validator clustering, parallel execution (like what Aptos or Sei are exploring), or ZK-based proofs for batching, it could maintain performance as it decentralizes??
Or is the mutlistream consensus just solves all of this?!
But if it just adds more validators without protocol-level optimizations, performance might degrade.
Quantity may lower quality, unless the architecture anticipates this, and by using this mutlistream
Only the owning validator ever adds blocks to their data chain, and there are no safety mechanisms in place to avoid them forking their data chain or proposing invalid blocks. In other words, the data chains have no consensus mechanism at all.
Fast blockchains look great at launch. But staying fast with hundreds or thousands of validators is the real challenge. (4/4)
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