Solana’s Anza CEO discusses potential 200ms slots and Agave v4.2 upgrade
Anza CEO Brennan Watt has announced plans to reduce Solana's slot times from 400 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds with the upcoming Agave v4.2 upgrade. This change aims to significantly enhance network performance by allowing faster transaction processing. Additionally, the Alpenglow initiative seeks to improve finality times and streamline network efficiency by eliminating on-chain vote transactions.
- ▪Solana's current slot times are approximately 400 milliseconds.
- ▪The Agave v4.2 upgrade is expected to halve the slot time to 200 milliseconds.
- ▪Anza has improved Turbine retransmit latency from 600ms to about 0.8ms.
- ▪The Alpenglow initiative aims for around 150-millisecond finality and seeks to remove on-chain vote transactions.
- ▪Removing vote transactions could enhance network efficiency and provide more accurate throughput metrics.
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Solana’s Anza CEO discusses potential 200ms slots and Agave v4.2 upgrade Brennan Watt outlines plans to cut Solana's slot times in half, with the Agave v4.2 client upgrade positioned as a major leap for network performance. Share Add us on Google by Editorial Team May. 22, 2026 window.sevioads = window.sevioads || []; var sevioads_preferences = []; sevioads_preferences[0] = {}; sevioads_preferences[0].zone = "01f21ccf-2092-46b1-9ac7-8c44cc782e0f"; sevioads_preferences[0].adType = "native"; sevioads_preferences[0].inventoryId = "c5700508-581b-472c-8fdd-a931cdbfc8e1"; sevioads_preferences[0].accountId = "1e47efc1-ec2d-4fca-a8b9-354e249e5095"; sevioads.push(sevioads_preferences); Solana’s current slot times sit at roughly 400 milliseconds.
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