Solana leader-reordering proposal cuts handover latency to 17 ms
- —Average handover latency between leaders fell from 36.2 ms to 17.0 ms
- —Median latency dropped from 23.4 ms to 4.5 ms in an epoch 1038 simulation
- —SIMD-0674 stores geo-coordinates in the vote account but cannot prove a server's real location
- —Simulation showed an attacker with 5% of stake could win six consecutive leader slots
Why it matters: If adopted, the proposals could speed up Solana's consensus, but verifying validators' real locations remains unresolved.
Source: TokenPost