Altcoins News
By James Thorp
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Big news from Stellar is that they have just released Horizon 2.0. This major release has been years in the making.
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The full release notes are available at GitHub. Before upgrading, users are advised to read the Captive Stellar-Core. “Captive mode relaxes Horizon's operational requirements.
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In the past, if a developer wanted to run a Stellar Core node to deploy the Horizon, it burdened them with heavy disk space requirements and lot of careful configuration required…
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Rather than going by a universal blueprint, users should decide what they want to do?They need to decide if they want to run a validator or if they want to just run Horizon?
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Running a validator makes it possible for users to participate in consensus and improve network health and decentralization, and therefore developers will be able to take…
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Running Horizon lets developers find out what happened on the blockchain in the past and to find out the current state of the world like account balances, track new events which…
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It is out with the old and in with the new with the coming of Horizon 2.0 – which provides for lot of flexibility.
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Now there are changes in the way in which Stellar Core interacts with Horizon and therefore there are changes in system requirements.
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“The in-memory database requires around 3 GiB of RAM, and the disk space requirements have dropped significantly (again, by hundreds of gigabytes).”
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Horizon 2.0 is coming with massive performance and architecture benefits which makes it very easy to run the Stellar infrastructure than ever.
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