Ethereum Researchers Target 4-Minute Finality, Cutting Idle Transfer Capital by 75%

Ethereum researchers proposed cutting finality from about 16 minutes to four in a draft filed Wednesday by Ben Edgington and four co-authors. A transfer service fronting $1 million an hour would hold roughly $67,000 waiting on settlement instead of about $267,000. The design gives validators separate votes so block lock-in runs on a faster clock. Voting timings and penalties remain unresolved.