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Morning Edition · Wednesday, October 14, 2026Published at 1:36 AM EDT · New York
Ethereum researchers publish three designs for faster blocks and data on who pays for the front of the block
A revised "rapidblocks" consensus lets one block be skipped without a reorganization, a new EIP-8411 tier speeds publishing by home builders, and a 15-month dataset measures priority fees by block position.
Three posts on the Ethereum Research forum this week address how fast Ethereum can produce blocks and who gains from the order of transactions inside them. The first, "Rapidblocks, take two," revises a proposal from last year for blocks tha…
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Ethereum Pushes Toward Shorter Slots
Ethereum research and client work will keep converging on shorter slots and faster block propagation that preserve home block building, moving the latency competition with faster chains into the base protocol.
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