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Ethereum’s 16-Minute Settlement Wait Could Drop to Four

Ethereum’s 16-Minute Settlement Wait Could Drop to Four

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Key Takeaways Today’s expected finality time: about 16 minutes Head-vote committee: about 512 validators per slot EIP number 8453 proposed; draft still unmerged 2027 upgrade slot floated as stretch goal Ben Edgington, who describes his role as coordinating Ethereum’s fast-finality work, opened the Decoupled Consensus pull request on October 21. He co-wrote the draft with Francesco D’Amato, Roberto Saltini, Yann Vonlanthen and Mikhail Kalinin. His note on the pull request says “many aspects remain TBD” and that the immediate aim is an EIP number.

Source: Coindoo

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