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.
forming · confidence 40 · Emerging (watchlist) · tracking since October 27, 2026 · updated October 27, 2026
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A Bitquery study found that outside wallets bought within about 1.3 seconds in 53% of sampled Pump.fun launches after Solana's final cut to 200-millisecond slots, against 52% before. Faster slots left early bot buying essentially unchanged, which is direct evidence that speed does not remove ordering advantage.
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Supporting · October 27, 2026
A Bitquery study finds Solana's faster slots did not reduce bot buying in the first second of new Pump.fun memecoins
A Bitquery study found that outside wallets bought within about 1.3 seconds in 53% of sampled Pump.fun launches after Solana's final cut to 200-millisecond slots, against 52% before. Faster slots left early bot buying essentially unchanged, which is direct evidence that speed does not remove ordering advantage.
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