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Verifiable Pruning: Empowering Accessibility for All Users

Traditional blockchain systems often struggle with massive ledger sizes—ranging from hundreds to thousands of gigabytes—while delivering only about 20 transactions per second (TPS). This scalability challenge severely limits their practicality, especially for users with standard computing devices.

Locus Chain, designed to deliver 10x the TPS performance within a single shard and up to 1000x TPS across multiple shards, recognizes that increased TPS also means rapid growth in ledger size. However, maintaining terabytes of data per shard is impractical for modern desktop computers, let alone smaller devices.

Introducing Verifiable Pruning​

Verifiable pruning offers an innovative solution by allowing nodes and accounts to eliminate unnecessary data from their local ledgers without compromising the integrity of the blockchain.

• Selective Data Removal: On a typical blockchain, 99.99% of transactions are irrelevant to any single account. Verifiable pruning enables the removal of such irrelevant data, creating checkpoints that verify new transactions independently of the discarded data.

• Compact Storage: With pruning, a node's data requirements can be reduced to just a few hundred megabytes, making blockchain operation feasible even for low-cost, compact devices like smart appliances.

This approach eliminates the need for powerful, specialized hardware, making blockchain participation accessible to a broader audience while preserving the network's robustness.

Faster Node Initialization​

Traditional blockchains often require several hours to sync and initiate a new node, posing a significant barrier to network entry.

• With Locus Chain, verifiable pruning reduces startup time dramatically—new nodes can join the network in under 10 minutes.

• This quick onboarding enhances the flexibility for participants to join the Locus Chain network without incurring high startup costs or delays.

Key Benefits of Verifiable Pruning​

  1. Efficient Data Management: Reduces storage requirements, making blockchain technology feasible for a wide range of devices and users.

  2. Improved Accessibility: Allows users with inexpensive devices to participate fully in the blockchain ecosystem.

  3. Scalability: Supports higher TPS performance without overwhelming the network with unmanageable data sizes.

  4. Flexibility for New Participants: Lowers barriers to entry by significantly shortening node startup times.

By combining scalable performance with lightweight operational requirements, Locus Chain’s verifiable pruning demonstrates how blockchain technology can achieve both inclusivity and efficiency.