Last week, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson met with Snoop Dogg to hype their collaboration with Clay Nation on the launch of some non-fungible token (NFTs), thus formally ushering in the era of clay animation on Cardano.
Yesterday, during a YouTube video address to the ADA community, Hoskinson had something else to tout up, what he referred to as a "major, major, major hard fork combinator event."
It's set for June, and it is called the Vasil hard fork. What has Hoskinson so excited is the expected performance enhancement said to be coming with the introduction of "pipelining."
In plumbing or surfing, the gist of the term pops to mind. In blockchain, though, it's a bit of a mind bender. Pipelining – or more precisely, diffusion pipelining – is an improvement to the consensus layer that facilitates faster block propagation, Hoskinson said.
Ah, okay, so it enables gains in headroom. We get that concept, having learned it the hard way, driving a camper van out of an underground parking lot. In blockchain, blocks, lots of them, navigate across the chain in sequenced steps that diffusion pipelining reconfigures, overlaying some of the steps so they happen concurrently, saving time, allowing for more large camper vans stuffed with transaction data to more speedily wind their way out of the garage and on to the open road.
But why is it called the Vasil hard fork? It's named in honor of Bulgarian blockchain guru Vasil Dabov who recently passed away (CryptoGlobe).
