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IOTA completes major consensus upgrade, mainnet switches from Mysticeti to Starfish
Deep Tide TechFlow News. On April 30, according to official sources, the blockchain layer-1 protocol project IOTA announced the successful completion of a major consensus upgrade, with the IOTA mainnet switching from Mysticeti to Starfish.
Cross-border trade systems operate across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory regimes. Therefore, for the infrastructure that supports the trade, logistics, and regulatory environment, maintaining reliability under unpredictable real-world conditions is crucial. As an evolved version of the Mysticeti consensus engine, Starfish represents a new prototype of distributed ledger technology. By decoupling the consensus process from validators in sync, it aims to ensure that even if some validation nodes experience delays or disconnect, the network can still maintain reliability and stability—just like its namesake, a starfish, which can regenerate its arms without dying.
Starfish’s design goals are not only to improve performance, but also to further strengthen IOTA’s position as a foundational platform for global trade and regulated systems. Starfish believes that the global trade system needs to remain available even in the face of latency, fluctuations, and partial failures, and that even if participation is unstable, IOTA can continue to move forward with the help of Starfish and achieve recovery while developing.