https://consensus.ethereum.foundation/blog Blog posts from the Ethereum Consensus Protocol Research team. en Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://consensus.ethereum.foundation/blog/upgrading-finality-edition-2 https://consensus.ethereum.foundation/blog/upgrading-finality-edition-2 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What a series of stakeholder interviews told us about how fast Ethereum finality needs to be, where it matters most, and which trade-offs are worth considering. https://consensus.ethereum.foundation/blog/upgrading-finality-edition-1 https://consensus.ethereum.foundation/blog/upgrading-finality-edition-1 Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The first in a series on making Ethereum's finality fast. The plan: decouple finality from slot-by-slot fork choice, then incrementally cut time to finality from around 1000 seconds toward 10 — a two orders of magnitude speedup, delivered in stages.