Solana moves to 250 ms slots: early data and instability risks
- —Target slot time cut to 250 ms from September 18, epoch 1037
- —September 20 measurement: about 266 ms per slot, 0.05% of slots skipped
- —Block budget reduced to 62.5 million compute units, and would be 50 million at 200 ms
- —Leadership transfer penalty: 28 ms at <500 km and 122 ms at >8,000 km
Why it matters: Faster slots speed up transaction inclusion but shrink the window for leadership transfer and repairs, raising the risk of correlated failures.
Source: CryptoSlate