Base

Flashblocks make Base faster

This 10x change makes Base the fastest EVM chain to date, bringing effective block times from 2 seconds down to 200 milliseconds —and they're live on testnet right now + coming to mainnet in Q2

200ms effective block times coming to @base

200ms effective block times coming to @base.base.eth

ETHDenver

Staking Product Lead @coinbase. Built $cbETH. On NFTs before they were cool at RARE Art. Previously: 2x Founder, Wall St, UVa. Phan ⭕️.

Raises a huge question:
Two peers, on opposite sides of the world, to do a simple receive and acknowledgement of data, takes a minimum of the speed of light over half the earth's diameter each way, or approximately 133ms, with no other factors included. 200ms block times, therefore, means that you are precluding decentralization, as real world factors included brings block consensus windows up to around 6s to even satisfactorily reach moderately equipped and connected machines. So is base abandoning any interest in decentralization?