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[Whitelisted Caller] Increasing nDelayTranches from 89 to 213

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a year ago
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Whitelisted by fellowship: https://collectives.subsquare.io/fellowship/referenda/285

Update the setNDelayTranches from 89 to 213, which will reduce the number of assignments per candidate per delay tranche from ~5.61 to ~2.33, the justification why this is the desired value for this parameter can be found in ELVES https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/961 paper and here https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/6853#issuecomment-2540373492.

The high level impact is twofold, it reduces the overall load in the presence of validators that are no-shows and it reduces the impact that a few no-show validators could have on the finality lags because those no-show validators would be assigned less often.

This configuration change has been running already on kusama since https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/484 and it had the expected effects.

Comments (1)

a year ago

Hi Alex — Could you please add some contextual information?

a year ago

@Bill 

Looks alright to me in subsquare https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1418, not really sure why polkassembly did not pick up the description.

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