{"id":567,"date":"2026-09-08T14:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=567"},"modified":"2026-09-08T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:59:39","slug":"multiversx-to-cut-block-times-to-600ms-with-supernova-mainnet-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"MultiversX to cut block times to 600ms with Supernova mainnet launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MultiversX<\/strong> is set to activate its Supernova hard fork on <strong>Sept. 10<\/strong>, cutting block time from six seconds to 600 milliseconds and pushing transaction finality into the sub-second range, <em>according to the MultiversX Foundation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The upgrade decouples consensus from execution. Under the current model, validators re-execute every transaction before voting on a block; under Supernova, they vote on proposed blocks immediately while execution runs in the background and gets finalized in subsequent headers. In-shard finality lands within roughly 100 to 250 milliseconds once a proof is available, developers said, a change aimed squarely at latency-sensitive use cases such as high-frequency DeFi trading and on-chain order books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supernova has been producing 600-millisecond blocks on testnet and devnet since Aug. 20 without reported disruption. Self-custody holders of <strong>EGLD<\/strong> do not need to take any action \u2014 addresses, keys and balances remain fully compatible, with no token swap or migration required. The network will pause for roughly 24 minutes during the transition, and node operators must update their software to keep validating once the fork activates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Staking unbonding periods remain unchanged at 10 days despite the speed increase. The MultiversX team has also warned users to be wary of scams claiming a token migration is required for Supernova \u2014 no such process exists for this upgrade. Exchange users have been told to check withdrawal windows in advance given the scheduled downtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supernova follows the Andromeda upgrade, which addressed cross-shard execution and consensus bottlenecks earlier in the network&#8217;s roadmap. Developers building on the chain have been advised to update any smart contracts that hardcode six-second block-timing assumptions before mainnet activation, since block times expressed only in seconds will no longer uniquely identify a block once sub-second finality goes live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiversX is set to activate its Supernova hard fork on Sept. 10, cutting block time from six seconds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-altcoins"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}