Solana Cuts Block Time in Half

Solana has begun to reduce its block time from 400 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds in a four-step process. The first step, which takes place at epoch 1020, will bring the block time down to 350 milliseconds.

The network's Anza software is handling the upgrade, which will eventually allow for three thousand blocks to be produced within the same window that Bitcoin produces one block every ten minutes.

Solana already processes transactions at a rate roughly thirty times faster than Ethereum, but the new upgrade aims to further improve finality, with Solana currently taking around thirteen seconds to settle a transaction compared to Ethereum's thirteen minutes and Bitcoin's hour.