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Solana (SOL) News: Proposal for Bigger Blocks

Jump Crypto's proposal aims to remove Solana's fixed 60 million compute unit block limit to enable dynamic scaling based on validator hardware, boosting throughput after Alpenglow upgrade.

  • Jump Crypto's Firedancer team filed SIMD-0370 on Saturday to remove Solana's 60 million CU block cap, proposing dynamic scaling with validator capacity.
  • Alpenglow passed earlier this month and cuts finality from about 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds, adding a skip-vote feature and new Votor and Rotor consensus mechanisms.
  • Dynamic block scaling would let block size vary with each validator's hardware, creating a performance flywheel that encourages upgrades through higher fees.
  • Engineers warned that removing block caps could push smaller validators aside as larger, well-funded validators upgrade, while critics say rewards may shift toward big machines, reducing validator diversity.
  • Institutional signals include Jump Crypto's filing SIMD-0370 and ETF flows like the REX-Osprey Solana Staking ETF with $33 million trading volume and $12 million inflows, suggesting rising capital interest.
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Cointelegraph broke the news in on Monday, September 29, 2025.
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