Is the Gossip Network, which will be upgraded in early 2025, intended to increase the security of the network?
I wonder if it is related to the transmission speed.
be slower? or be faster?
Hi,
the gossip network will be a modality of nodes that connect in a P2P fashion rather than necessarily through relay nodes.
It is intended to improve Algorand’s decentralization because the network will, roughly speaking, be more strongly connected with multiple paths between nodes rather than having fewer paths that could cause more harm in the event of a failure.
These changes are thoroughly tested for performance in the real world and are not intended to slow down the network. I suppose we are going to see what global topology emerges from this change and only then make considerations about speeding it up even more.
EDIT: This year we introduced dynamic lambda which regulates the block production speed according to the global network conditions, congestion, and speed. When this was introduced, block speed went from 3 seconds to 2.8. For this reason, I don’t think that block production rate with the gossip network will be limited by the global network speed.
As I understand, the system seems to be stabilizing more and more. Thank you.