Celestia’s Ginger upgrade in November 2024 will cut block times from 12 to 6 seconds, improving transaction speed.
The modular data network Celestia has announced that it will soon be releasing its Ginger upgrade. This upgrade is a significant network development that will improve the speed of transactions and the finality times.
Block durations will be reduced from 12 seconds to 6 seconds as a result of the Ginger upgrade, which is scheduled to go global in November of 2024. Because of this, the network will be able to execute transactions in a more effective manner.
Celestia Rolls Out Ginger Upgrade: TIA Price Jumps 6%
Celestia recently published a blog post detailing the Ginger upgrade, promising significant network performance enhancements. The upgrade will reduce block times from 12 seconds to 6 seconds, leading to a doubling of the network’s data availability throughput.
This modification will speed up transaction processing and finalization, improving network efficiency for users and developers. New features in the Ginger upgrade include limiting transaction sizes to 2 megabytes and restricting the number of PayForBlobs (PFB) and non-PFB messages sent in a single block.
More specifically, each block will be able to support up to 600 PFB messages and 200 messages that are not PFB. Furthermore, Celestia will activate this improvement at Arabica height 2348907 in November 2024. The public Mocha testnet will host the transfer, which will fully merge into the mainnet in December.
Technical Enhancements and Future Potential
The enhancement lays the groundwork for further scalability, potentially allowing community governance to implement an increase in block size to 8 megabytes every six seconds in the future. Additionally, the Ginger upgrade involves the implementation of BBR (bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time) congestion control as the default method of congestion management for Celestia.
This adjustment will increase throughput in peer-to-peer networks created in the real world, particularly when sending huge volumes of data.This version will also streamline transaction validation for rollups through CIP-21, which introduces blob types with verified signers.
In addition to these changes, the upgrade will further streamline the process. This reduces processing time and boosts network throughput. Analysts believe that the price projection for TIA might reach $10 in the near future as a result of the increasing network enhancements and the recent investment round of $100 million.
At the time of publication, the TIA Price has increased by 6%, reaching $6.06, which is slightly below its resistance level of $6.5. There is a correlation between this price increase and the increased optimism that follows the anticipated benefits of the upgrading. The network’s sustained resiliency is evident in the token’s value, which remains sixty percent higher than its lowest point this year.
