Cardano developers continue to work on increasing network capacity and announced the next update to the two key parameters. The team will increase the block size by another 8 KB, from 72 KB to 80 KB. The adjustment represents an increase of about 11% and is a much-needed optimisation as Cardano updates allow more transactions to be added to new blocks.

Packing more transactions into a block ultimately means that more transactions can be processed per second. In addition to the block size, Cardano’s developers will also increase the Plutus script memory units per transaction from the current 12.5 million to 14 million. Plutus scripts are pieces of code used by Cardano to validate actions. Expectations are that the increase in memory units will enable the development of more sophisticated Plutus scripts, while allowing existing scripts to handle more data elements.

Together, the two improvements are expected to increase the throughput capacity of the network and go live as early as 21:44 UTC this Friday. Furthermore, they are expected to provide additional resources for Plutus scripts to improve the experience of Dapp users.