On Saturday, Canton MainNet swapped its ordering consensus engine.
800+ nodes moved to Canton BFT, a multi-leader, par | Hanami
On Saturday, Canton MainNet swapped its ordering consensus engine.
800+ nodes moved to Canton BFT, a multi-leader, parallel-ordering protocol, with almost no downtime.
Nobody noticed. That’s the point.
The upgrade mechanism itself is now proven: deep protocol changes on a live, decentralized network, while it keeps running. And Canton BFT is the foundation for much higher throughput.