SIMD-0525's final 200-millisecond block time reduction since August has already been deployed on Solana's testnet and devnet, with the mainnet rollout on Friday, October 9, 2026, depending on network conditions

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

Approaches to processing more transactions without sacrificing security or decentralization, spanning rollups, sharding, data compression, and faster consensus designs.