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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 27, 2026Published at 1:48 AM EDT · New York
Solana Cuts Block Spacing to About 365 Milliseconds in First Step Toward Sub-Second Finality
Epoch 1021 averaged 365.4 milliseconds between slots with a 0.077% skip rate, while the next reduction stage remains unreleased.
Solana validators have started running the network at a shorter slot time, and early performance data is available. Epoch 1021 averaged 365.4 milliseconds of spacing between blocks, with a skip rate of 0.077%, according to CryptoSlate, agai…
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Base Layers Reprice Throughput
Major layer-1 networks keep raising throughput and cutting on-chain costs through protocol repricing rather than pushing users to other layers, which repeatedly breaks downstream tooling and compresses the fee advantage that rollups and rival chains have relied on.
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