Key facts
- Solana has reduced its slot time to 350 milliseconds.
- This is the first reduction in slot time since the network's genesis.
- The network's original slot time target was 400ms.
Solana has reduced its slot time to 350 milliseconds, the first reduction since the network's inception. This move is part of a plan to further decrease latency and accelerate transaction confirmations on the blockchain.
These changes aim to enhance the performance of the Solana blockchain by reducing latency and speeding up transaction finality, potentially improving the user experience and enabling new applications.
Solana has reduced its slot time to 350 milliseconds, marking the first such reduction since the network's inception. This adjustment is a step towards a target of 200 milliseconds, aimed at improving network latency and accelerating transaction confirmations.
Jacob Creech, the Solana Foundation’s vice president of technology, announced the change, stating, "We’re in a new era of 350ms. Next stop, 300ms." Average slot times on the network were approximately 360ms at press time, down from the initial target of 400ms.
In June, the Solana Foundation outlined plans to decrease slot times from 400ms to 200ms. This initiative involves three additional 50ms reductions, all targeted for activation on the mainnet through Agave v4.2, a validator client developed by Anza. The schedule for these activations remains tentative.
The proposal to implement these shorter slot times, known as SIMD-0525, was approved and merged on May 14.