Solana has reduced its mainnet target slot time from 400 milliseconds to 350 milliseconds, the first step in a staged plan to eventually cut it to 200ms.
The change went live around the start of epoch 1020 on Friday and marks the first time Solana has shortened its target slot duration since the network launched. It is a small-looking number with a fairly large engineering job behind it.
A slot is the window in which a leader validator can produce a block. Shorter slots mean blocks can be produced more frequently, which can reduce the time users and applications wait ...
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