Solana is about to halve its block times as final 200-millisecond upgrade nears
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Solana is set to lower its target block or slot time to 200 milliseconds at epoch 1053 on Friday, finishing a sequence of reductions that began in August. The change increases block-production opportunities to five per second and comes with tighter voting and operating windows for validators, while per-block computing limits are adjusted to keep overall capacity steady.
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