What is Mysticeti on Sui?

Mysticeti is the revolutionary consensus protocol that has cut consensus time on Sui Testnet by an astounding 80%. With Mysticeti, Sui Testnet reaches consensus in just 390ms and achieves settlement finality in 640ms. This remarkable speed marks an 80% improvement over the previous Narwhal-Bullshark protocol.

In short, it drastically reduces transaction latency and lowers CPU requirements for validators, potentially making blockchain competitive with centralized systems.

Why should I care about Mysticeti on Sui? 🤔

🌊 Increased Throughput Without Increased Latency: Mysticeti eliminates the primary-worker distinction and inlines transactions within the primary’s block, achieving very high throughput – well over 100K TPS – without significant latency increases.

🌊 Earlier Committed Transactions: Mysticeti’s innovative commit rule designates multiple leaders each round, enabling more transactions to be committed earlier.

In short, Mysticeti on Sui makes transactions quicker and increases the number of transactions that can be processed in one second.

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