EIP-8198 is a key step toward experimenting with slot timing and more responsive onchain markets. Our research finds that geography is less a constraint on today’s reductions than a potential bound on how far slot times can ultimately be pushed.
EIP-8198 introduces infra for variable slot timing, enabling Ethereum to gradually shorten slots as bottlenecks are better understood.
We published our take on it, supporting the move toward shorter slots while arguing that geo incentives should remain part of the evaluation 👇