IOTA Ships Starfish-Speed Consensus Upgrade, Node Sync 2.6x Faster
- —Starfish-Speed reached IOTA mainnet in September 2026 after devnet in July and testnet in August
- —Median transaction commit latency dropped from roughly 206 ms to 174 ms, about a 15% improvement
- —Node sync is 2.6 times faster as formal snapshots replaced public RocksDB snapshots
- —INCUCAI and its 24 provincial agencies moved verifiable digital identities and document signing onto IOTA
Why it matters: Faster finality and sync strengthen IOTA's position in enterprise and government use cases that require speed and verifiable data.
Source: Blockchain.News