{"id":658911,"date":"2026-09-18T12:52:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/ethereum-institutional-signals-support-for-ethlabs-motion-to-reduce-ethereum-block-times\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:52:52","slug":"ethereum-institutional-signals-support-for-ethlabs-motion-to-reduce-ethereum-block-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/ethereum-institutional-signals-support-for-ethlabs-motion-to-reduce-ethereum-block-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Institutional signals support for Ethlabs\u2019 motion to reduce Ethereum block times"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ethereum<\/p>\n

The non-profit signaled support for reducing Ethereum block times, citing increasing institutional activity moving onto the smart-contract network.<\/p>\n

Ethereum Institutional signaled support for Ethlabs\u2019 motion to reduce block times and create a faster Ethereum to address increasing competition from other networks.<\/p>\n

\u201cMake Ethereum faster,\u201d wrote the non-profit organization in a Friday X post<\/a>, arguing that reducing block times is needed as \u201cmore institutional activity moves onchain.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Ethlabs published an article<\/a> quoting 20 decentralized finance (DeFi) founders showing broad support for EIP-8198, also known as \u201cQuick Slots,\u201d which seeks to initially reduce Ethereum block times to 10 seconds from 12 seconds.<\/p>\n

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The non-profit signaled support for reducing Ethereum block times, citing increasing institutional activity moving onto the smart-contract network. Ethereum Institutional signaled support for Ethlabs\u2019 motion to reduce block times and create a faster Ethereum to address increasing competition from other networks. \u201cMake Ethereum faster,\u201d wrote the non-profit organization in a Friday X post, arguing that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-658911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}