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SOL news: Solana is about to halve its block times as final 200-millisecond upgrade nears

The network is completing a seven-week push to produce blocks twice as frequently, though validators face higher costs and tighter operating windows.

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Solana is about to complete an acceleration started in August. The crypto network must reduce its target time between two blocks from 250 to 200 milliseconds during the 1053 epoch, expected on 9 October. At this rate, five block production opportunities can appear every second, compared to 2.5 when Solana was still operating at 400 ms. The blockchain is faster, but its overall theoretical capacity does not double. L'article Crypto: Solana soon p…

Solana reduces its block time to 200 milliseconds at epoch 1053. What the SIMD-0525 update changes for validators and wallets. The Solana article goes to blocks of 200 milliseconds: the block time divided by two since August appeared first on Coin Academy

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BizToc broke the news on Friday, October 9, 2026.
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