Ethereum researchers have proposed cutting the wait for transaction finality from about 16 minutes to roughly four minutes, though the draft is unfinished and has no activation date. Faster finality would let transfer services recover and reuse funds sooner; for a service fronting $1 million an hour, the idle money waiting on repayment would fall from about $267,000 to about $67,000. The plan would split validators’ block-selection and finality votes, allowing faster locking-in and an eventual move to quantum-resistant signatures. Many details, such as voting timings and penalties, remain unresolved, and Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade targets about 150 milliseconds.
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Relevance: low
| Market | Crypto |
|---|---|
| Exchange | Binance |
| Sector | Layer 1 |
| Market cap | $294.2B |
| Close on 10/21/2026 | 2,473.76 |
| Change that session | +1.00% |
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