[Solana Reduces Target Slot Time to 250ms, Increasing Block Production Speed by Nearly 17%] Odaily Planet Daily News: On Friday, Solana reduced its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds, increasing block production frequency by nearly 17%. The computational resources and data volume available per slot have been correspondingly reduced, while the network's overall transaction processing capacity remains unchanged. This adjustment represents the third phase of the four planned stages under the SIMD-0525 proposal. The block production permission window for validators across four consecutive slots has been shortened from 1.2 seconds to 1 second, and the estimated duration of an epoch fixed at 432,000 slots has been reduced from approximately 36 hours to about 30 hours. The next phase plans to further shorten the slot time to 200 milliseconds, but the mainnet launch timeline has not yet been determined, with the condition for implementation being a stable block skip rate. (Decrypt)