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Charts of the Week: Solana ‘Accelerates’ Its Target Slot Interval

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Charts of the Week: Solana ‘Accelerates’ Its Target Slot Interval

Solana has been working to reduce its target slot interval from 400 milliseconds (ms) to 200ms in a phased rollout after SIMD-0525 was approved in May. It’s getting close: over the last roughly 13 epochs (432,000 slot intervals) the network has averaged a median slot interval of 267ms.

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Throughout the gradual descent to the 200ms target, the slot skip rate (number of slots that do not get filled with blocks per epoch) has been contained. Keeping the chain reliable in this way is a prerequisite to further reductions in the target interval. Skip rates per epoch have stayed below 0.87% over the last 50 epochs and have stayed below 0.11% over the last ten epochs.

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