Polkadot plans to scale its parachains to 1,000

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, core developers of Polkadot are seeking to expand the current limit of parallel chains in the ecosystem to 100, with the goal of eventually adding 1,000 parallel chains after a planned software update called "asynchronous support."

Asynchronous support represents a significant enhancement to the Polkadot parallel chain consensus protocol. This update aims to reduce the block time for parallel chains from 12 seconds to 6 seconds and increase the block space per block by 5-10 times.

Polkadot's main contributor, Parity Technologies, stated at the sub0 developer conference in Lisbon that the version of asynchronous support will be deployed to Polkadot's Rococo testnet in about two weeks. The timeline for the mainnet release remains tentative.