Optimum says mump2p made Ethereum blocks travel twice as fast? First, check who's measuring
Ethereum has a 12-second slot, and new blocks need to reach the entire network quickly so validators have time to vote. By default, this relies on a “gossip” network where nodes pass information from one to another, then on to others.
Optimum's mump2p is a plugin that runs alongside a validator's consensus client: it splits blocks into encoded fragments and sends them over its own relay network. Once enough fragments arrive, the complete block can be reconstructed. According to the company, it doesn't change consensus rules or touch validators' private keys, and if the plugin fails, the node still uses the original gossip network.
Optimum's data page on DefiLlama (as of November 8): validators registered with it had a combined stake of about 3.44 million ETH. Across 50,274 slots from November 1 to 7, it took about 176 milliseconds for a block to go from being first seen to reaching 95% of observed nodes, compared with about 382 milliseconds for default gossip—roughly 2.17 times as long.
A reality check:
1. These are all Optimum's own statistics, and the two sides use different sets of observer nodes; this is not a third-party audit.
2. “About 3.44 million ETH” is the stake of validators registered with it, including those that only receive blocks. It doesn't mean all that ETH relies on it to produce blocks.
3. Faster transmission gives validators more time to vote and produce blocks, but has no direct connection to the token price. Don't mistake infrastructure news for a bullish signal.
#以太坊 #验证者 #Infrastructure
Ethereum has a 12-second slot, and new blocks need to reach the entire network quickly so validators have time to vote. By default, this relies on a “gossip” network where nodes pass information from one to another, then on to others.
Optimum's mump2p is a plugin that runs alongside a validator's consensus client: it splits blocks into encoded fragments and sends them over its own relay network. Once enough fragments arrive, the complete block can be reconstructed. According to the company, it doesn't change consensus rules or touch validators' private keys, and if the plugin fails, the node still uses the original gossip network.
Optimum's data page on DefiLlama (as of November 8): validators registered with it had a combined stake of about 3.44 million ETH. Across 50,274 slots from November 1 to 7, it took about 176 milliseconds for a block to go from being first seen to reaching 95% of observed nodes, compared with about 382 milliseconds for default gossip—roughly 2.17 times as long.
A reality check:
1. These are all Optimum's own statistics, and the two sides use different sets of observer nodes; this is not a third-party audit.
2. “About 3.44 million ETH” is the stake of validators registered with it, including those that only receive blocks. It doesn't mean all that ETH relies on it to produce blocks.
3. Faster transmission gives validators more time to vote and produce blocks, but has no direct connection to the token price. Don't mistake infrastructure news for a bullish signal.
#以太坊 #验证者 #Infrastructure
