Cardano Reaches New Scaling Milestone That Might Allow Nodes To Sync Faster

The Cardano network connects thousands of nodes into a unified system, where they communicate with other nodes to provide information about new blocks and transactions. Since each node has a complete copy of the blockchain, each new node must download and verify each block in order to synchronize the nodes, which adds time to the process.

Mithril aims to provide a verifiable snapshot of all or a portion of the blockchain state using the current network, thereby significantly reducing node synchronization times.