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Cardano supporters believe that the new Ouroboros Leios variant will revolutionise the blockchain industry by achieving maximum security and a significant increase in throughput.
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The most exciting upcoming L1 upgrade is Ouroboros Leios, according to KtorZ, an open-source developer at the Cardano Foundation.
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He uncovers the unexpected fact that Ouroboros Leios' underlying concept is quite straightforward.
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KtorZ outlines the origins of Ouroboros Leios in a series of tweets.
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Cardano is a distributed system where nodes come to an agreement by sharing blocks according to the schedule for which they are elected
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Every 20 seconds or so, blocks are generated and quickly spread throughout the network.
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Since the block throughput is often not high enough to keep the node always occupied
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he makes the observation that a node is typically not actively verifying blocks while it is serialising data and sending it to its peers.
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Leios' goal is to make use of these unused resources and increase the parallelism of the chain's construction. It involves making the most of UTxO's capabilities.
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The three new types of blocks are input blocks, endorsement blocks, and ranking blocks. In Leios' proposal, the chain construction is divided into
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