In the labyrinthine corridors of blockchain’s endless bureaucracy, Cardano has finally stumbled upon a glimmer of progress-a public Cardano Improvement Proposal (CIP) for “Ouroboros Leios” now lies exposed in the Cardano Foundation’s repository, like a sacrificial lamb awaiting the knives of community scrutiny. On August 27, Nicolas “BeRewt” Biri, the high priest of Input Output’s software architecture, proclaimed with a mix of triumph and trepidation: “So, here it is, we now have a public and submitted CIP for Leios. More than ever, it’s now time for feedback… it may be too early to celebrate… but it’s a huge milestone.” 🎉✨
The pull request, grandiosely titled “CIP-???? | Ouroboros Leios – Greater Transaction Throughput,” sits in the digital purgatory of PR #1078, labeled “Category: Consensus” and stamped with the ominous “State: Triage.” It is a document in limbo, awaiting its permanent number like a soul awaiting judgment. The submission, a tapestry of commits and links, points to a dedicated Leios R&D site and discussion forum-a modern-day agora for the technologically anointed. Intersect, the implementor, stands as a silent guardian, ensuring the sacred trinity of research, engineering, and standards remains intact. A CIP editor, with the air of a weary scribe, noted the document “looks practically ready for merge,” though the usual bureaucratic rituals must still be observed. 📜🔍
Leios, the next chapter in Cardano’s Ouroboros saga, promises to unlock the chains of throughput while clinging to the security guarantees that define its lineage. Its architecture, a ballet of “input,” “endorsement,” and “ranking” blocks, aims to parallelize the network’s labor without sacrificing the separation of concerns cherished in Ouroboros Praos. It is a delicate dance, one that seeks to expand capacity while preserving decentralization and censorship resistance-a utopian dream in a dystopian digital age. 🕊️⚖️
The research, laid out in IOG’s “Ouroboros Leios: design goals and concepts,” speaks of “substantially” increasing data and CPU throughput by re-architecting the algorithmic bottlenecks of its predecessors. Yet, it does not shy away from the trade-offs: increased resource use, potentially higher transaction latency-sins analyzed within the security model. Biri, in his announcement, laid bare the proposal’s anatomy: a detailed description, implementation materials, tradeoffs, and resistance to attacks. He also revealed the “secret roadmap,” a document as elusive as a shadow, which targeted this very pull request by August’s end. 🗺️🔒
The submission ignited the eternal debate: throughput versus decentralization. When a community member questioned what warranted celebration, Biri retorted with the zeal of a true believer: “That we have a solid and safe design for high throughput on Cardano.” Pressed on whether Cardano should “compromise” like its faster brethren, he stood firm: “That’s why we didn’t follow that road… What we have is the best tradeoff without sacrifice.” When compared to Solana, he quipped: “It ain’t and can’t be, because of the different security and model. If we want to compete speed-wise with the fastest chains, we need to agree on giving up some decentralization, cost, or reliability dimensions.” Cardano’s scaling, it seems, is a prisoner of its own principles. 🚀⛓️
At press time, ADA traded at $0.817, a number as fleeting as the hopes and dreams of its holders. 📉💸
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2025-08-29 14:13