Solana to cut block times to 200 milliseconds on Friday
- —Block time falls from 250 to 200 milliseconds at epoch 1053 on Friday
- —Per-block compute limit drops from 37.5 million to 30 million units
- —Validator ordering window shrinks from 1.6 seconds to 800 milliseconds
- —Block times have already halved from 400 milliseconds since August
Why it matters: Faster blocks speed up data for exchanges and wallets, but raise validator voting costs and shorten the validity window for transactions.
Source: CoinDesk