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Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 27, 2026Published at 1:37 AM EDT · New York
A Bitquery study finds Solana's faster slots did not reduce bot buying in the first second of new Pump.fun memecoins
Outside wallets bought within about 1.3 seconds in 53% of sampled launches after the final 200-millisecond slot cut, against 52% before it.
Solana has spent much of 2026 cutting the time between blocks, and its developers present faster slots as a fairer and more responsive chain. Research from the data provider Bitquery, reported by CryptoSlate, suggests the shorter slots did…
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Faster Blocks Do Not Fix Ordering Advantage
Chains will keep cutting block times and marketing speed as fairness, while extraction persists because it comes from ordering access. This pushes fairness fixes into application-level auction designs and order-flow rules.
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