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Solana block times halve to 200ms as the final speed cut goes live

Solana's last planned slot-time cut took effect at about 14:35 UTC on Oct. 9, bringing block times to 200 milliseconds from 400ms.

ITC Newsroom · Oct. 9, 20:00 UTC · 2 min read

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Solana & DeFi in numbers

DefiLlama, 7 days to Oct. 9

$1.13B

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