Faster Blocks Just Mean Faster Readers ⚡
The upgrade everyone on Solana is talking about went live on September 18, when slots dropped from 300 to 250 milliseconds, the fourth step of a plan that ends at 200.
On $SOL that means four blocks a second instead of about three, and fresher prices for every wallet, app and bot reacting to the chain.
$JTO shows who is best placed to use that, with more than 95% of active stake running the Jito client and over 60% of priority fee volume flowing through its tips.
What the upgrade does not change is what can be read, it only shortens the time anyone needs to act on it.
So the orders, bids and strategy logic a DeFi app has to compute on are the same public state they were last week, and the searchers reading them now get there sooner.
Speed and confidentiality usually get sold as a trade off, where the sealed version of anything is the slow version.
Arcium's layout is why that is not built in, because a computation is split into fragments across a cluster of nodes that each work their piece at the same time, no single node holds a readable copy of the input, and only the result has to land on Solana.
That result settles as an ordinary public transaction inside the same faster blocks, while a plain token transfer stays exactly as readable as before until C-SPL ships.
The compute layer has been live on Mainnet Alpha since February 2 with more than 2.5 million computations, and I have not seen it benchmarked against 250ms slots yet, so that is the number I am waiting for.
Every speed upgrade makes a chain better at showing things quickly, and the trend I am tracking now is the apps deciding what never gets shown.
#Solana #DeFi
The upgrade everyone on Solana is talking about went live on September 18, when slots dropped from 300 to 250 milliseconds, the fourth step of a plan that ends at 200.
On $SOL that means four blocks a second instead of about three, and fresher prices for every wallet, app and bot reacting to the chain.
$JTO shows who is best placed to use that, with more than 95% of active stake running the Jito client and over 60% of priority fee volume flowing through its tips.
What the upgrade does not change is what can be read, it only shortens the time anyone needs to act on it.
So the orders, bids and strategy logic a DeFi app has to compute on are the same public state they were last week, and the searchers reading them now get there sooner.
Speed and confidentiality usually get sold as a trade off, where the sealed version of anything is the slow version.
Arcium's layout is why that is not built in, because a computation is split into fragments across a cluster of nodes that each work their piece at the same time, no single node holds a readable copy of the input, and only the result has to land on Solana.
That result settles as an ordinary public transaction inside the same faster blocks, while a plain token transfer stays exactly as readable as before until C-SPL ships.
The compute layer has been live on Mainnet Alpha since February 2 with more than 2.5 million computations, and I have not seen it benchmarked against 250ms slots yet, so that is the number I am waiting for.
Every speed upgrade makes a chain better at showing things quickly, and the trend I am tracking now is the apps deciding what never gets shown.
#Solana #DeFi
