Kusama JAM Upgrade: Option A - Lightweight and independent

Supporting this proposal means you agree that, Kusama implements an independent JAM upgrade with a lightweight, non-standard configuration designed for its economic constraints.

Like Polkadot did with ref#682, it's time for Kusama to take a stance towards JAM. The problem is, the costs of running a full JAM instance are too high for Kusama's small economy, so we either run a smaller instance(optimized for new use cases with 1sec finality) or hope for Polkadot to agree to share the same instance to split the cost between the 2 economies(Opt.B)

Configuration

• 32 cores (vs. Polkadot's 341)
• 1-second block time for very low latency
• KSM as native token for all economic functions (storage, staking, coretime)

Economics

With a greatly reduced core count and validator set the network can lower its security costs dramatically(~2.4% KSM inflation worst case), other mechanisms like Proof of Personhood can be consider to reduce further costs and make it manageable for Kusama's low cap economy.

Trade-offs

Benefits:

• Fast finality is great for real-time applications
• Cost-effective and economically sustainable
• Maintains full independence

Limitations:

• Lower throughput than full JAM
• Reduced internal data transfer capacity

Strategic Value

• Preserves Kusama's experimental nature in JAM era
• Creates unique positioning on latency/throughput spectrum
• Establishes Kusama as the platform for latency-sensitive applications