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#SolanaPlansToCutBlockTimesTo200ms Solana Plans To Reduce Block Times To 200 ms – IT'S LIVE TODAY! Today, Solana announced one of the fastest upgrades in its history. Anza announces: Final slot reduction to 200ms goes live today Oct 9 at ∼15:00 UTC at epoch 1053 boundary on mainnet-beta 9304d66e Roadmap: 400ms → 350ms → 300ms → 250ms → 200ms FINAL It's 50% faster compared to original and 20% faster compared to current 250ms d66e What does it mean: - 5 blocks per second - Faster confirmation & finality - Great for oracles, market makers, AI payments - Epoch duration decreases from 30h to ∼24h And all this happens in the same week when $SOL introduced x402 batch USDC payments for AI agents – allowing 100s of AI model payments in 1 settlement, saving $20K+/month in fees 9304 It's a part of SIMD-0525, unrelated to the Alpenglow upgrade that aims at 150ms finality. $SOL has already broken a record of 5,000+ user TPS in September and 216M transactions per day. And now it's going to become even faster. 5 blocks per second – Solana isn't slowing down. Bullish for $SOL ? #solana #sol #CryptoNews