Cardano has moved a key part of its scaling work into the project’s main development branch, marking a new step in efforts to raise the network’s transaction-processing capacity. A development report released on October 26 said the team recently integrated core code for Leios, the technology Cardano is building to handle more transactions at the same time.
The update covers Praos2, which combines Cardano’s existing consensus protocol with Leios, along with LeiosNotify and LeiosFetch, components intended to support information exchange among participants on the network. The report also noted that some features required to process additional transactions are still being developed.
Leios moves into the main codebase
The integration into the main development branch is significant because it brings the core pieces of Leios into Cardano’s primary code path, rather than leaving the work isolated as a separate experiment. The components named in the report suggest the effort now extends beyond design goals and into implementation inside the network’s active development framework.
Praos2 is described as the part that links the current consensus system with Leios. The other two integrated elements, LeiosNotify and LeiosFetch, are meant to help network participants exchange the information needed for the new scaling approach to function.
What the scaling plan is meant to achieve
Leios is designed to allow the Cardano network to process more transactions simultaneously. The stated objective is to increase throughput without giving up the security properties and decentralized structure that the network is intended to preserve.
That balance is central to the project’s framing of Leios. Rather than presenting higher capacity as a standalone goal, the development report places it alongside the requirement to maintain the network model already in place.
Initial gains and later expansion
According to the October 26 report, Cardano plans an initial Leios rollout aimed at increasing transaction capacity by roughly three to five times. If that stage performs as intended, the project then expects to push throughput higher through phased adjustments.
Those later steps are intended to lift capacity to around 10 to 15 times current levels. The report does not present that upper range as immediate or guaranteed, instead tying further increases to staged implementation.
What happens before larger increases
The report makes clear that the full scaling path remains conditional. Some of the functionality needed to support the additional transaction load has not yet been completed, meaning the current milestone does not represent a finished deployment.
Cardano also said that any further capacity increase would be pursued only after network performance is validated and the community approves the changes. That leaves performance testing and governance support as the next confirmed checkpoints before the project attempts the largest throughput expansion described in the report.
Source: en.bloomingbit.io