Solana developers stated that the mainnet rollout of the 200-millisecond upgrade scheduled for epoch 1053 depends on the rate at which validators miss their assigned block-production opportunities

Base blockchains that settle transactions on their own network, such as Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche, competing on security, throughput, decentralization, and developer ecosystems.

Rules by which distributed networks agree on a shared ledger, from proof of work mining to proof of stake validation, trading off security, energy use, and decentralization.