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[Whitelisted Caller] Increase validator set size to 500

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2 years ago
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Whitelisted by: https://collectives.subsquare.io/fellowship/referenda/220?tab=call

This call increases the current validator set size from 400 to 500, this a followup of https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1129, that increased the validator set size from 297 to 400.

Following this change the maximum number of usable cores supported by polkadot will increase from 80(400 / 5) to 100 (500 / 5) where 5 is the dimension of a parachain backing group.

Additionally, this reverts back the maximum number of validator candidates to 2000, that was modified in https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1129, because it is not needed until we decide to increase the validator set size to 1000.

Testing

Kusama has been running with 500 parachain consensus validators for 3 months since this referenda passed: https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/416

Comments (6)

2 years ago

5000 will better

2 years ago

Hey @alexggh,  if I'm not mistaken, we have just increased to 400. Do you think we need more data to push another increase?

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