Solana Accelerates Block Production by 17%, Transaction Capacity Unchanged
Key Highlights Solana reduced its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds, accelerating the network clock by approximately 17% without expanding total transaction throughput. The change increases slot frequency to four per second from roughly 3.3, shortening each validator’s leader window from 1.2 seconds to one second and rotating transaction-ordering authority faster. DeFi ...