Solana has completed the last step of SIMD-0525 and has been running twice as fast as in the summer since Friday. Capacity per second is untouched by it, and in two places the new cadence bears directly on your money.

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Silke Schütters

By: Silke Schütters

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Published: 10/10/2026

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Solana has been targeting 200 milliseconds per slot since Friday afternoon. The rebuild that began in August at 400 milliseconds is now complete, and the network runs twice as fast as it did in the summer. The price barely reacted: Solana traded at $109.84 on Saturday morning, 0.8 percent below the previous day.

Reports on the rebuild leave out a number that matters more to investors than the 200: the compute budget per block falls in the same proportion. On balance, Solana can process exactly as much per second as before. What changes is the waiting time, and it bears on your money in precisely two places, in leveraged trading and in your validator's commission.