# Avalanche Block Time Was 990 Milliseconds Over One Hour

By Simon Yoon

Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/40657
Published: 2026-10-25T19:26:35.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-25T19:26:35.000Z
Section: Technology

> The dashboard also showed a separate finality-time reading of two seconds when checked Oct. 25 at 3:23 p.m. ET (19:23 UTC).

Avalanche block time was 990 milliseconds over a one-hour window at 3:23 p.m. ET (19:23 UTC) Oct. 25. Finality time was two seconds.

The readings describe different network metrics. The one-hour reading does not establish whether block time reached a historical record.