Crypto: Solana reduces its block creation time by 350 milliseconds
A slot is a tiny window in which a validator produces a block. On Friday, Solana shortened it, moving from 400 milliseconds to 350. Nothing spectacular at first glance—except when it lines up with the moment the market is looking at SOL with an interest it hasn’t shown in months.
Solana reduced its slot time from 400 to 350 milliseconds, with three levels remaining before the final goal of 200 milliseconds.
Reducing slot time accelerates latency for crypto users without increasing Solana’s overall network capacity.
SOL rose to over $91, driven by seven consecutive weeks of ETF inflows and the announcement from the U.S. Treasury.
From 400 to 350 milliseconds: the first step in a four-stage plan for Solana
The mainnet update carried out on Friday morning on Solana reduces the target slot time to 350 milliseconds from 400 previously. This figure corresponds to the brief period during which a designated validator produces a block of crypto transactions. The change is framed within SIMD-0525, an improvement proposal that lays out a path toward a final goal of 200 milliseconds for SOL—i.e., half the network’s historical time.
Epochs, those cycles of 432,000 slots, go from about 48 hours to about 42 hours;
Validators that hold control for 4 consecutive slots switch turns every 1.4 seconds instead of 1.6;
A period of 1,000 slots that previously took 415 seconds now takes just 368.
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A slot is a tiny window in which a validator produces a block. On Friday, Solana shortened it, moving from 400 milliseconds to 350. Nothing spectacular at first glance—except when it lines up with the moment the market is looking at SOL with an interest it hasn’t shown in months.
Solana reduced its slot time from 400 to 350 milliseconds, with three levels remaining before the final goal of 200 milliseconds.
Reducing slot time accelerates latency for crypto users without increasing Solana’s overall network capacity.
SOL rose to over $91, driven by seven consecutive weeks of ETF inflows and the announcement from the U.S. Treasury.
From 400 to 350 milliseconds: the first step in a four-stage plan for Solana
The mainnet update carried out on Friday morning on Solana reduces the target slot time to 350 milliseconds from 400 previously. This figure corresponds to the brief period during which a designated validator produces a block of crypto transactions. The change is framed within SIMD-0525, an improvement proposal that lays out a path toward a final goal of 200 milliseconds for SOL—i.e., half the network’s historical time.
Epochs, those cycles of 432,000 slots, go from about 48 hours to about 42 hours;
Validators that hold control for 4 consecutive slots switch turns every 1.4 seconds instead of 1.6;
A period of 1,000 slots that previously took 415 seconds now takes just 368.
$SOL
$EPOL.ETF
$VALE.US
#solana
