TechFlow news, according to The Block, core developers of Polkadot are seeking to increase the current ecosystem limit on parachains to 100, with the goal of eventually supporting up to 1,000 parachains following a planned software upgrade known as "asynchronous backing."
Asynchronous backing represents a significant enhancement to Polkadot's parachain consensus protocol. This update aims to halve the parachain block time from 12 seconds to 6 seconds and increase the block space per block by 5 to 10 times.
Parity Technologies, a major contributor to Polkadot, stated at the sub0 developer conference in Lisbon that the asynchronous backing version will be deployed to Polkadot's Rococo testnet in approximately two weeks. The mainnet release timeline remains tentative.
