Tap as fast as you can for 30 seconds. Then watch your burst hit five blockchains at once, and see which ones keep up.
Most blockchains work in sequence. Propose a block, vote on it, then run the transactions inside it, each step strictly after the last. That ordering is where the seconds go.
Supernova overlaps the steps. The network votes and executes at the same time, so a block that used to take about six seconds now targets around 600 milliseconds, and intra-shard finality targets around 250 milliseconds. About the length of a blink.
The hard part was doing this without breaking the rule that a payment crossing between shards either completes on both sides or does not happen at all. A cross-shard transfer settles end-to-end across about three blocks, near 1.8 seconds. Supernova keeps that guarantee intact and runs the clock roughly ten times faster. Use the toggle on the MultiversX lane to compare the intra-shard and cross-shard targets.
Supernova is coming to MultiversX.
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