Ethereum may soon operate at double its current speed
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Ethereum may soon operate at double its current speed, following a proposal by core developer Barnabé Monnot to cut the network’s slot time in half, from 12 seconds to 6 seconds. The Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 7782 proposal could be introduced in the upcoming “Glamsterdam” upgrade, scheduled for 2026. According to a June 20 Ethereum Magicians article written by Monnot, if the slot time change is implemented, it could reduce the time the Ethereum blockchain takes to finalize transactions and add new blocks to the mainnet. This will improve the blockchain’s performance and usability for decentralized apps (dApps), wallets, and defi protocols. Halving slot time to boost confirmation speeds Ethereum currently operates on a 12-second slot cycle. Under the proposed change, this would be reduced to just 6 seconds, doubling the number of blocks produced per minute. Monnot claims this acceleration could improve user experience by delivering fresher data and faster confirmations, with clear advantages for defi, such as smaller arbitrage windows, reduced trading fees, and increased liquidity. “For proof markets, the work can be heavily parallelised, so a single logical prover could be obtaining subproofs from many other provers. Still, reducing the slot time means offering more opportunities per unit of time to compete for the right to provide the proof of a block,” he wrote. The proposed network adjustment breaks the 6-second slot into three smaller sub-processes: 3 seconds for block proposals, 1.5 seconds for attestations, and 1.5 seconds for aggregation. It would preserve the total slot functionality while increasing throughput at the protocol layer. The Ether developer reiterated that the change would not affect the total issuance to validators. Instead, stakers would receive smaller but more frequent rewards due to a lower reward variance and reduced incentives for staking pools. He added that it will favor solo…
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