Sonic Research aims to increase the speed and efficiency of the company behind blockchain technology and Sonic(S) Altcoin, and has introduced Soniccs 2.0, a new DAG (supervised Acyclic Graph)-based consensus protocol.
According to the company's official blog, Soniccs 2.0 stands out for its overlapping selection mechanisms that allow for parallel ordering of operations. Tests show that the new protocol runs on an average twice as fast as the previous version, reducing memory usage by 68%.
Soniccs 2.0 is built on an innovative DAG architecture that allows transactions to be sequenced simultaneously across blocks. The protocol organizes transaction data received from other nodes as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) through which each node organizes transaction data received from other nodes, and through this structure, determines the transactions contained in the chain by creating a time order.
In this system, the event decision process for leaders, known as “elections,” is carried out in parallel, rather than individually in each block. This speeds up the transaction verification process and reduces hardware processing load.
In the new protocol, the voting structure is modeled with a 0-1 matrix representation, allowing for more efficient election calculations. This contributes to high performance with low resource consumption despite processing strength.
Soniccs 2.0 was tested over 200 epochs (network cycles) on Sonic Mainnet, achieving twice as fast performance compared to previous protocols, and consumed 68% of memory.
The Sonic team has announced that new consensus protocols will be enabled in future Sonic client releases over the coming weeks. The developer also said a more detailed technical report on Soniccs 2.0 will soon be shared.
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