Cardano has approximately 30 parameters. Each parameter plays a role in shaping the network's functionality, governance, economics, and performance. Among these, the maxBlockBodySize or max_block_size parameter is one of the famous (or infamous) parameters among developers and entrepreneurs. The maxBlockBodySize plays an integral role to Cardano’s efficiency, security, and scalability.

> What is the maxBlockBodySize, and why might a budding entrepreneur, developer or all of us vested in the Cardano ecosystem take a minute to understand it?

For the uninitiated, let's first start with some basics. A blockchain acts as a decentralized database - a ledger of transactions spread across numerous computers worldwide. Each transaction, be it a transfer, a vote, or a computer code execution, gets recorded in blocks….