Partial Liteservers — January Highlight

The TON 2024.12 kernel update is the first step of the “Accelerator” update series. The update contained many improvements and new Partial Liteservers functionality.

Now fullnode or archive node can monitor only masterchain and specific shard. Recall that previously each node was required to monitor all shards on the blockchain.

This allows you to spend less resources if you only need to monitor and read data from one shard (for example, if you are only interested in one network address), or to split your infrastructure into different servers.

Liteservers also supported partial mode. We made a new proxy liteserver that can send a request to the right node depending on the shard. Thanks to the proxy liteserver, existing services can migrate seamlessly.

Services that find the new functionality useful for them can start using it in production. However, at the moment it is not necessary for everyone to switch.

Partial and proxy liteservers documentation »