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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 20, 2026Published at 1:47 AM EDT · New York
Solana Cuts Block Times to 350 Milliseconds and Trims the Compute Budget to Match
The change takes effect at epoch 1020 on August 21 under SIMD-0525, while new Ethereum research argues that manipulating validators' view of the chain head is the common factor in reorganization attacks.
Solana shortens its slot time from 400 milliseconds to 350 at epoch 1020 on August 21, the first of four planned 50-millisecond reductions under the improvement document SIMD-0525 that end at 200 milliseconds. CryptoSlate reported that the…
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Block Timing Becomes a Consensus Attack Surface
As chains compress block intervals toward the physical limits of network propagation, timing manipulation and leader handoff replace cryptographic weakness as the practical attack surface, and the hardware floor for validating becomes the real measure of decentralization.
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