# Block Sizes, Claims and Proofs in the Multi-Gateway Era

**URL:** <https://forum.pokt.network/t/block-sizes-claims-and-proofs-in-the-multi-gateway-era/5060>\
**Category:** Ecosystem\
**Created:** [February 21, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.pokt.network/t/block-sizes-claims-and-proofs-in-the-multi-gateway-era/5060 "2024-02-21T21:05:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Olshansky](https://forum.pokt.network/user_avatar/forum.pokt.network/olshansky/32/359_2.png) [@Olshansky](https://forum.pokt.network/u/Olshansky)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.pokt.network/t/block-sizes-claims-and-proofs-in-the-multi-gateway-era/5060/3 "2024-02-22T06:03:29Z")

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@RawthiL Firstly, ty so much for the detailed response and so promptly!

## Next Steps

Below are what I’d suggest as next steps based on the data and discussion available..

**Actionable now** :

1. **Gateways** : Gateways should re-evaluate how their gigastakes are distributed and used. See the `Gateway Q&A`.
2. **DAO** : We re-evaluate what an effective `pocketcore/MinimumNumberOfProofs` that helps the network but does not have a considerate impact on the economics (i.e. these will become un-claimable sessions).

**Education** :

1. **PNF Education** : PNF should take this into consideration as more gateway stakes are distributed (to whom, how much, educating the gateway, etc…). Cc @Dermot

**Backup bandaids** :

_These are last resort backups in case of emergency in order of least impact on network economics/tokenomics._

1. Increase `pocketcore/BlockByteSize`
  - Though LeanPOKT makes this less costly, it should not be the immediate go to option for scalability reasons.

2. Decrease `pocketcore/SessionNodeCount`
  - Though this will work, it will cost some decentralization and optionality w.r.t gateways managing QoS.

3. Increase `pos/BlocksPerSession`
  - Though this will work, the long 15 minute block time we already having, slowing it down even more is not preferable.

## Follow-up Questions for @BenVan

@BenVan I have a couple of questions I wanted to follow up on.

1. You mentioned you changed something in your nodes to make sure the network has less bloat. Do you mind sharing & reiterating what that is?

2. @BenVan what are the current ssd storage requirements for a single pocket node for you? It could be a good data point to decide how viable the block size option is.

3. You suggested increasing `pocketcore/MinimumNumberOfProofs` to something in the low 10s.  
3.1 Am I remembering correctly?  
3.2 My understanding from the code is that `NumOfProofs` is literally the number of relays, so like @RawthiL said, it has to be in the hundreds to have substantial impact.

 ![Screenshot 2024-02-21 at 9.07.59 PM](https://forum.pokt.network/uploads/default/original/2X/4/49db3f3dc5d28bb5fe1a34e1b5eec269254cb1c8.png)

## Gateway Q&A

Specific data we need to understand w.r.t gateways are:

1. How many app stakes are available to each gateway?
2. How many of the available stakes are used?
3. How are they used w.r.t to stake concentration?
4. Is there an opportunity to consolidate stake.

I’ll work on this with the backend team for Grove.

@poktblade Could you look into this on behalf of nodies?

## Shannon

[Relay Mining](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10672) (with the relay threshold) will enable a single session to hold billions/trillions of relays by modulating the difficulty.

The [Probabilistic Proof](https://github.com/pokt-network/pocket-core/blob/e47bc70188d04e72aefe149635ea9acafd6047fe/docs/proposals/probabilistic_proofs.md?plain=1) document we put together (so not all claims need a proof) will solve this part.

## Nits / Questions for @RawthiL

1. Add a unit whenever the x-axis is `amount` so it’s more self-descriptive
2. Found a couple small typos that spell-check should catch. E.g. `gruops`
3. `pocketcore/SessionNodeCount` is mentioned twice
4. Do you know why this link shows `80MB` for the block size: [https://poktscan.com/explore?tab=blocks](https://poktscan.com/explore?tab=blocks)

## Context

@BenVan posted the following in `#node-chat`.

 ![Screenshot 2024-02-21 at 9.18.51 PM](https://forum.pokt.network/uploads/default/original/2X/4/45dea77b7bb939563a275e21d9e649de5845d7e4.png)

And during the ecosystem call, we decided to collect the following data to understand next steps:

 ![Screenshot 2024-02-21 at 9.19.04 PM](https://forum.pokt.network/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce29b42e10bc65a6478c57dddc7683863c913744.png)

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