Solana (SOL) shipped the final stage of its slot-time reduction on Oct 9, when the network's target slot interval reached 200 milliseconds — a step that the Solana Foundation's official upgrade records date to that day.

The upgrade completes a phased move away from Solana's long-standing 400-millisecond slot target, halving the base unit of time in which the network produces blocks. Slot time governs how quickly Solana advances its ledger and shapes the confirmation speeds experienced by users and applications on the network. In practical terms, blocks are now produced on a base cadence twice as frequent as under the previous target, tightening the rhythm at which the ledger advances.

Bitquery Measurement: 53% vs 52%

Following the change, blockchain data and analytics provider Bitquery measured external buy rates on the network and found them essentially flat, registering 53% versus 52% across the compared periods. The figures indicate no material shift in externally initiated buying activity after the slot-time cut — a one-percentage-point gap that keeps the reading in flat territory rather than marking a directional move. Set against the timing change, the measurement offers a concrete data point on how one on-chain activity metric lined up across the compared periods around the rollout.

The measurement lands amid ongoing attention to Solana's price and network throughput. Subsequent Bitquery measurements and updates to the Solana Foundation's upgrade records serve as the documented reference points for tracking further changes on either front.

Bitquery is a provider of blockchain data infrastructure and on-chain analytics covering major smart-contract networks, including Solana.

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