Cardano Holders Cast over 164.1 million ADA Votes to Support Rollup Scalability Research

Sebastian Guillemot, the co-founder and CTO of DC Spark, has applauded Cardano holders who endorsed a proposal to allocate a portion of treasury funds for Rollup research.

Voting for Rollup Scalability Research in Cardano

In a tweet on February 16, funding scaling research is welcomed because “many teams FUD scalability solutions” in fear of being deprecated. Over 164.1 million ADA were cast to support Rollup Scalability Research. It indicates that most users prefer Cardano to incorporate an off-chain scaling solution to relieve the base layer.

Rollup is a popular scaling solution that takes various forms, depending on the deploying firm. In all, rollup solutions, as the name suggests, “rollup” or batches transactions off-chain before confirming them on the mainnet. By taking transactions off-chain while still deriving security and decentralization from the base layer, rollups increase the mainnet’s throughput, which goes a long way in reducing on-chain fees.

Considering the ultra-high demand for block space in Ethereum, Rollups is a preferred scaling solution adopted by most developing blockchain firms. Over time, they have satisfactorily proven reliable and secure. However, Rollups are progressively being improved. According to trackers, over $6.3 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL) are in leading layer-2 rollup solutions like Arbitrum and Optimism.

Even still, considering the fast-mover advantage of Ethereum, the blockchain—though plagued by scaling and high Gas fees problems, is one of the leading networks. Modern blockchains aim to tap the popularity of Ethereum and its dApp density for quick client on-boarding by being EVM-compatible.

A mission for Better Interoperability and Composability

The post from Sebastian is in line with DC Spark’s mission of DC Spark’s high-quality crypto products that unify user experience within the vast blockchain ecosystem.

To achieve this grand objective and mission, the team promotes interoperability and composability from the back end. In this way, the end-user has a seamless experience which, in turn, gives them a solid base for them to join the fast-moving blockchain world.

DC Spark is working on several scaling and interoperability fronts. One of them is Milkomeda, a protocol the development team describes as empowering and blockchain-agnostic, offering EVM compatibility and rollup scaling beneficial for the long term.

The solution can be used by high throughput non-EVM networks like Solana, Terra, Algorand, and, soon, Cardano. Milkomeda exists as a sidechain and would enable developers to code dApps in a language they are conversant with in non-EVM blockchains while offering them a smooth connection to EVM networks.

Cardano Scales by Increasing Block Size by 11 Percent

It is vital for Cardano, a modern Proof-of-Stake network that’s still in development and currently integrating optimization solutions for scaling purposes. Following the launch of SundaeSwap, a DEX, Cardano was inundated by transaction requests, clogging the networks.

However, Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), the development wing of Cardano, forwarded a proposal to increase the network’s block size by 11 percent, improving scaling.

As an on-chain scaling, more transactions can be packed in a block, reducing the load on Cardano when more dApps plan to deploy in weeks ahead.