Solana’s Next Latency Idea Has a Geographic Trade-Off Validators Cannot Ignore

Reason to trust Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Created by industry experts and meticulously reviewed The highest standards in reporting and publishing Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio. TL;DR: Research into a geo-aware leader schedule suggests quicker validator handovers, but also warns that grouping leaders by location introduces security trade-offs. Solana’s push for lower latency is moving beyond shorter slots. A new study of SIMD-0675 considers rearranging its validator leader schedule so that consecutive leaders are more likely to be geographically close, reducing the time it takes information to travel between them. This is not a proposal to give particular validators more production slots. The researchers keep each validator’s allocation unchanged and instead reconsider the order in which those windows occur. Their analysis uses 6,250 synthetic networks based on the chain’s existing 124 validator locations. The appealing result is a reduction in average handover delay, aro...