Vitalik Buterin unveils plan to boost Ethereum speed and scalability
Ethereum’s consensus currently relies on a slot-based design, where both fork choice and finality mechanisms operate within the same time window.
While robust, this design requires multiple rounds of validator communication during each slot, limiting how quickly new blocks can be confirmed.
Considering this, Buterin suggests reducing the complexity by allowing the two processes to evolve independently. He wrote:
“[There] may be [a way] to move somewhat away from the tight coupling between slots and finality introduced in 3SF, and instead have a more separate LMD GHOST fork choice rule and finality gadget, with different participant counts.”
