ETHLABS' "FAST ETHEREUM" ROADMAP

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Ethereum's speed directly drives its economic value by reducing friction (idle capital, wait times, and settlement costs) for payments, swaps, and credit. There are four active workstreams: "fast blocks" (removing the hardcoded 12-second block time, starting with a proposed cut to 10 seconds in the upcoming "Hegotá" fork); "fast finality" (an EF/Consensys proposal to cut finality from ~15 minutes to a couple minutes in the following fork); the "Fast Confirmation Rule" (near-production today, cutting confirmation to tens of seconds with formally provable security, already adopted by one major bridge); and "fast interoperability" via real-time zk proving to speed up L2-to-L1 asset flows. Hegotá is possibly the last practical window to kick off block-time reductions for years.