Introducing Mercury Light Clients: A Leaner and Open Revamp to Mercury

Mercury Light Clients represent the evolution of the Mercury ecosystem, focusing on a leaner deployment model with reduced dependency on a centralized data feed. The redesign comes after evaluating Mercury’s performance to validate its product-market fit without continuous reshaping. The light clients push execution outward, open-source the runtime, and reduce operational workload, which is expected to accelerate development and engagement with Stellar research. The system promises higher reliability through redundancy and unlimited flexibility by publishing building blocks and reference implementations. It calls for infrastructure operators to host Mercury Light Clients, providing a sandboxed execution layer and pluggable data feeds. Open sourcing the implementation aligns with Stellar’s ethos, supporting broader blockchain infrastructure innovation and collaborative development.