# Solana Records 212-Millisecond Slots After Completing 200-Millisecond Rollout By Simon Yoon Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/41877 Published: 2026-10-27T17:04:20.000Z Updated: 2026-10-27T17:04:20.000Z Section: Technology > Daily block production nearly doubled while swaps per block fell. An early-buy measure over roughly 1.3 seconds barely changed. Solana completed a four-stage reduction in its target slot time to 200 milliseconds, and a public node recorded actual slots averaging 212 milliseconds from Oct. 22-25. The shorter target increases how often the network produces blocks, while the amount of work processed per second remained roughly steady. The change, made under proposal SIMD-0525, moved the target down from 400 milliseconds. Validators completed the stages on Aug. 21, Aug. 28, Sept. 18 and Oct. 9. The [schedule for the final slot reduction]() described the planned rollout before it was complete. Solana had no network halts during a 361-day review. The share of slots with skipped blocks fell to 0.05% from 0.23%, and the longest gap between blocks remained below five seconds. Daily block production increased to about 407,000 from 206,000. An average block held about 95 swaps, down from 149, leaving the network's work per second roughly unchanged. The Solana Foundation set shorter user waits and less time for any one validator to influence which transactions enter a block as goals of the change. A routine swap from an ordinary wallet still costs about one-tenth of a cent in network fees. Staking payouts now arrive about every 26 hours, versus every 51 hours before the change; the annual reward rate is unchanged. Early buying patterns varied by measurement window. For newly launched Pump.fun tokens, an outside wallet bought in the first block in 32% of the later sample, down from 42%. That first block lasted about 0.27 seconds in the later sample, compared with 0.42 seconds before. Over roughly 1.3 seconds, outside-wallet purchases appeared for 52% of tokens in the later sample and 53% in the earlier one. An outside wallet is any wallet other than the token's first buyer; the measure does not show that every early buyer was a bot. Sandwich-pattern counts were about 30 per 10,000 swaps in early August, about 21 in early September and about 33 from Sept. 19 to Oct. 7. A sandwich pattern places a bot's buy and sell around another trader's swap. These bot-related samples ended before the final slot change took effect on Oct. 9. ## Links in this article - [schedule for the final slot reduction](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/28717)