The average time between consecutive blocks being produced. Bitcoin: ~10 minutes, Ethereum: ~12 seconds, Solana: ~400ms. Shorter block times enable faster transaction confirmation but increase orphan rates and storage requirements. Block time is a fundamental trade-off between speed and network overhead.
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The average time between consecutive blocks being produced. Bitcoin: ~10 minutes, Ethereum: ~12 seconds, Solana: ~400ms. Shorter block times enable faster transaction confirmation but increase orphan rates and storage requirements. Block time is a fundamental trade-off between speed and network overhead.
Usa primero la analogía corta para razonar mejor sobre el término cuando aparezca en código, docs o prompts.
Piensa en esto como un bloque de construcción que conecta una definición aislada con el sistema mayor donde vive.
Ubica el término dentro de la capa de Solana en la que vive para razonar mejor sobre él.
Conceptos compartidos de cripto que dan marco al ecosistema más amplio.
Convierte el término de vocabulario en algo operacional para producto e ingeniería.
Este término desbloquea conceptos adyacentes rápido, así que funciona mejor cuando lo tratas como un punto de conexión y no como una definición aislada.
Usa este bloque compacto cuando quieras dar contexto sólido a un agente o asistente sin volcar toda la página.
Block Time (block-time) Categoría: Blockchain General Definición: The average time between consecutive blocks being produced. Bitcoin: ~10 minutes, Ethereum: ~12 seconds, Solana: ~400ms. Shorter block times enable faster transaction confirmation but increase orphan rates and storage requirements. Block time is a fundamental trade-off between speed and network overhead. Relacionados: Slot, Finalidad
Usa contexto del glosario, relaciones entre términos, modelos mentales y builder paths para recibir respuestas estructuradas en vez de output genérico.
Opcional: pega código Anchor, Solana o Rust para que el Copilot mapee primitivas de vuelta al glosario.
El Copilot responderá usando el término actual, conceptos relacionados, modelos mentales y el grafo alrededor del glosario.
Estas ramas muestran qué conceptos toca este término directamente y qué existe una capa más allá de ellos.
A time window during which a designated leader validator can produce a block. Each slot lasts approximately 400 milliseconds. Slots are numbered sequentially from genesis and grouped into epochs of 432,000 slots (~2-3 days). Not every slot produces a block—a skipped slot means the leader was offline or too slow.
The guarantee that a transaction cannot be reversed. Solana offers two levels: optimistic confirmation (~400ms, 66.7%+ stake voted) and full finality (~12-13 seconds, 31+ confirmations rooted). Once a slot is rooted, its transactions are irreversible under the assumption that no more than 1/3 of stake is malicious.
Estos son los siguientes conceptos que vale la pena abrir si quieres que este término tenga más sentido dentro de un workflow real de Solana.
Estas entradas son fáciles de mezclar cuando lees rápido, haces prompting a un LLM o estás entrando en una nueva capa de Solana.
A web application that indexes and displays blockchain data in a human-readable format. Explorers show transaction details, account balances, program interactions, and network statistics. Solana explorers include Solana Explorer (explorer.solana.com), Solscan, SolanaFM, and XRAY. Ethereum uses Etherscan. Essential tools for debugging and verification.
Concept articulated by Vitalik Buterin that blockchains can optimize for only two of three properties: decentralization, security, and scalability. Solana prioritizes scalability and security with specialized hardware requirements, while Ethereum L2s sacrifice some sovereignty for throughput. No chain has definitively solved the trilemma.
Las entradas del glosario se vuelven útiles cuando están conectadas. Estos enlaces son el camino más corto hacia ideas adyacentes.
A time window during which a designated leader validator can produce a block. Each slot lasts approximately 400 milliseconds. Slots are numbered sequentially from genesis and grouped into epochs of 432,000 slots (~2-3 days). Not every slot produces a block—a skipped slot means the leader was offline or too slow.
The guarantee that a transaction cannot be reversed. Solana offers two levels: optimistic confirmation (~400ms, 66.7%+ stake voted) and full finality (~12-13 seconds, 31+ confirmations rooted). Once a slot is rooted, its transactions are irreversible under the assumption that no more than 1/3 of stake is malicious.
Estas entradas viven junto al término actual y ayudan a que la página se sienta parte de un grafo de conocimiento más amplio en lugar de un callejón sin salida.
A distributed, append-only ledger that records transactions in cryptographically linked blocks. Each block contains a hash of the previous block, forming an immutable chain. Nodes in the network maintain copies of the ledger and reach agreement through consensus mechanisms. Blockchains enable trustless, decentralized record-keeping without a central authority.
The protocol by which nodes in a distributed network agree on the current state of the ledger. Common mechanisms include Proof of Work (Bitcoin), Proof of Stake (Ethereum, Solana), and BFT variants. Consensus ensures all honest nodes converge on the same transaction history despite potential network delays or malicious actors.
A consensus mechanism where validators are selected to produce blocks based on the amount of cryptocurrency they have staked (locked) as collateral. PoS is energy-efficient compared to Proof of Work. Misbehaving validators risk losing their stake (slashing). Solana, Ethereum (post-Merge), Cosmos, and Cardano use PoS variants.
A consensus mechanism where miners compete to solve computationally expensive puzzles to produce blocks and earn rewards. PoW provides strong security (51% attack resistance) but is energy-intensive. Bitcoin and pre-Merge Ethereum use PoW. The difficulty adjusts to maintain target block times regardless of total network hash power.