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2. Agile Coretime & Elastic Scaling

Dynamic blockspace acquisition replacing legacy slot auctions.

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Polkadot 2.0 deprecated 2-year parachain slot auctions in favor of Agile Coretime. Coretime is allocated dynamically in bulk (monthly renewals) or on-demand (instant spot purchases), while Elastic Scaling allows a single chain to utilize multiple cores in parallel to scale throughput.

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  1. 1. How is computational blockspace acquired in Polkadot 2.0?

  2. 2. What does Elastic Scaling enable for a Polkadot parachain?

  3. 3. What happens to the revenue generated from Coretime sales?

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