Solana's 300ms Speed Boost May Help Liquidity Providers Beat Trading Bots
Solana's mainnet has reached the 300-millisecond slot target, shortening the intervals allocated for block production. This upgrade is expected to let liquidity providers keep more of the value that trading bots extract from outdated pool prices.
Fee-charging pools whose prices lag external markets are likely to benefit the most from this change. According to a model developed by Jason Milionis, Ciamac Moallemi, and Tim Roughgarden, shorter intervals will reduce arbitrage extraction as blocks become more frequent.
The Solana Foundation's August analysis applies this model to constant-product pools, a conventional AMM design. The research suggests that with very low fees or high volatility, profitable discrepancies emerge more readily, so removing part of the waiting interval eliminates a smaller share of the opportunity.