Investing.com – Astar Network’s Shibuya testnet has just launched a major update with the introduction of asynchronous backing, one of the three key technological advancements driving toward its 2.0 version.
With asynchronous backing, Polkadot is slashing block time from 12 seconds to just 6 seconds. The network also bumped up the maximum block weight from 0.5 seconds to 2 seconds, allowing a much larger volume of transactions to be processed in the same amount of time — a big win for developers building decentralized apps on Astar.
Shibuya is the Astar Network (LON:)’s parachain testnet with EVM capabilities, closely resembling the Shiden and Astar mainnets. It has nearly identical chain specifications, making it an ideal testing environment for developers planning to launch their dApps on the mainnet.
Astar Network is a parachain of the Polkadot network that supports the development of dApps using both EVM and WASM…
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