The Solana network reduced its slot time to 350 milliseconds, the first modification of this parameter since the network’s launch, as confirmed by Jacob Creech, vice president of technology at the Solana Foundation, through a post on X published recently.
“We are in a new era of 350ms. Next stop: 300ms,” Creech wrote. Currently, the average slot time stood at 360ms, below the original target of 400ms that the network had maintained since its genesis, according to Solana’s slot time explorer.
Solana has officially reduced its slot time for the first time since its inception
We're in a new era of 350ms
Next stop, 300ms pic.twitter.com/GItTzfL6vB
— Jacob Creech (@jacobvcreech) August 21, 2026
In June, the foundation had announced its roadmap to bring the slot time from 400ms to 200ms, arguing that the reduction would improve latency and speed up transaction confirmations on the network.
The plan contemplates three additional reductions of 50ms each. The four stages aim to be activated on mainnet with Agave v4.2, a validator client developed by Anza, although the timeline remains tentative. The proposal establishing the new times, SIMD-0525, was approved and merged on May 14.
Source:Â https://x.com/jacobvcreech/status/2090709177580630248
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