Block time

At launch, and for approximately 40 days post-launch the network will have virtually no traffic, as all tokens will be locked, along with tokens sold in the public sale.

The network is designed to adjust to network conditions and can finalize blocks faster or slower in exponents of 2. For example, block times will increase in 2n milliseconds.

The network will have a minimum and maximum block time. This is represented by ‘N’ within the chainspec.toml.

With update v1.5.5, we are planning to have block times of approximately 16ms.

n	Duration (ms)
13	8192	8 sec
14	16384	16 sec
15	32,768	32 sec
16	65,536	65 sec
17	131,072	2 mins
18	262,144	4 mins
19	524,288	8 min