Espresso upgrades mainnet, cutting transaction finality to under 1 second
- —Finality on the Espresso mainnet is under 1 second after the September 9 upgrade
- —The number of network rounds needed for finality was cut from 7+ to 3
- —A fully connected encrypted network called Cliquenet replaced CDN and libp2p gossip
- —Load on blocks, data availability and voting fell by roughly two-thirds
Why it matters: Faster base-layer finality reduces latency for rollups and cross-chain applications, though it does not speed up settlement on Ethereum.
Source: TokenPost