Solana validators' "slow motion": Block latency has become a new strategy for gains?

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by Jack Kubinec

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As Solana's code issues have been gradually resolved over the past few years, block time, the time it takes for the network to generate new transactional blocks, has decreased significantly, even below its nominal 400 milliseconds.

However, over the past month, an interesting trend has emerged: median block time, a key performance metric in blockchain networks that reflects how quickly blockchain networks process transactions and generate blocks, has slowered, and Solana has slowed down to add new transactions to the blockchain. The reason lies in a new validator strategy, which suggests that slow block generation may be more profitable. According to Blockworks, Anza, Jito, and Marinade are considering resolving the issue.

Each Solana block has a validator...

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