Solana Cuts Slot Time to 350ms as Network Begins Push…

Why Did Solana Reduce Its Slot Time? Solana has reduced its target slot time from 400 milliseconds to 350ms, beginning a staged mainnet upgrade intended to eventually bring the network to 200ms slots without doubling the amount of computation validators must process each second. The change became effective with epoch 1020 on August 21 and represents the first reduction to Solana’s longstanding…