Key Takeaways:
- Mysticeti v2 integrates transaction validation into consensus, reducing latency and compute costs.
- Transaction Driver simplifies client submission while enhancing efficiency and reliability.
- Performance tests show up to 35% faster transaction finality, supporting Sui’s scalability goals.
Sui blockchain users can now experience faster and more efficient transactions thanks to Mysticeti v2, the latest evolution of the high-performance DAG-based consensus protocol from Mysten Labs. By integrating transaction validation directly into consensus and introducing a streamlined client mechanism, Mysticeti v2 promises to maximize Sui’s throughput while reducing latency and computational overhead.
The Evolution of DAG-Based Consensus
Traditional blockchain consensus requires validators to take turns proposing and voting on blocks, trading off throughput, latency, and committee size. DAG-based approaches, like those in Mysticeti, allow validators to propose blocks continuously, decoupling dissemination from ordering. This parallelism increases scalability and censorship resistance.
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Mysticeti v1 already delivered low latency and high responsiveness for Sui. However, additional pre-consensus validation steps added compute cost and slowed certain transactions. Mysticeti v2 addresses these limitations by merging validation into the consensus process, removing redundant steps, and ensuring all transactions reach finality efficiently.
How Mysticeti v2 Improves Transaction Processing
In Mysticeti v2, every transaction can be finalized or rejected concurrently within the DAG, eliminating bottlenecks from separate pre-consensus steps. Validators cast explicit votes only for rejections, while acceptance votes are implicit, reducing network traffic and CPU load. Multiple voting rounds ensure transactions from slower or weakly connected validators are still finalized reliably.
This new protocol design ensures that even high-volume networks, handling hundreds of thousands of transactions, maintain fast, deterministic finality without compromising security or throughput.
Transaction Driver: Smarter, Lighter, Faster
A key upgrade with Mysticeti v2 is the Transaction Driver, which replaces the Quorum Driver used in v1. Instead of broadcasting every transaction to all validators, the Transaction Driver:
- Submits each transaction to a single validator and retrieves consensus results efficiently.
- Batches signatures to reduce CPU load and network overhead.
- Automatically selects validators based on historical latency for faster confirmation.
- Provides robust retry mechanisms to ensure high completion rates even during network issues.
Early tests show a 35% latency reduction on Asia-based nodes and 25% on European nodes, marking a significant step forward in Sui’s transaction performance.
Looking Ahead
Mysticeti v2 lays the foundation for further enhancements, including reducing the number of message rounds for commitment and streaming uncommitted transactions to nodes, all while preventing object-level deadlocks. These improvements aim to make Sui the fastest, most efficient blockchain for real-world applications.
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With Mysticeti v2 and Transaction Driver, Sui users can enjoy a faster, lighter, and more resilient transaction experience.
