Hi dYdX Community!
I’m wondering why we don’t reduce the validator set gradually, for instance, by decreasing it from 60 to 50 and reducing the block time from 1 second to 0.6 seconds to see how much the network speed of the dYdX chain improves. If we suddenly reduce from 60 to 30 validators without lowering the block time, would it actually be faster? Do you have any in-depth reports on how much speed would realistically change? We would like to have an in-depth discussion about your statement that reducing the validator set would increase speed by a certain percentage. The options are to reduce the block time to 500 ms while keeping 60 validators, or to keep the block time at 1 second and reduce the validator set to 30. Which of these two options would help improve the latency of the dYdX chain and the dYdX DEX? We are looking for clear, detailed data reports from the dYdX Foundation and the Founder, @antonio, related to this matter.