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The Limit of Sub-Second Blocks Is Geography, Not Speed

We built a testbed to push Satsuma's block time below one second and find where it breaks. Compute wasn't the wall. The speed of light was.

Why Satsuma Has 2-Second Blocks

Block time is the one performance setting a chain can't change after it launches. Here's why Satsuma's is two seconds — and why faster blocks don't actually make a faster chain.