Claim of 3.3x improvement in Ethereum block propagation... independent measurement shows no significance
Original headline이더리움 블록 전파 3.3배 개선 주장…독립 측정은 유의성 없어
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Optimum deployed its mump2p block propagation protocol on the Ethereum mainnet on October 20, claiming blocks reached nodes 3.3x faster than the standard libp2p path. The company's own measurement, covering 50,292 slots and comparing its nodes against Xatu monitoring nodes, reported a 335-millisecond advantage, with 85–90% of blocks arriving 2.5–3.5x faster. A October 23 newsletter cited the same sample but listed the time gap as 288 milliseconds, and the figures came from an Optimum Hub dashboard captured about a week before the blog post. Independent measurement found the improvement was not statistically significant, leaving the claimed speedup unverified by outside observers. What to watch next is whether third-party monitoring can reproduce the latency gains across a larger sample and whether other Ethereum clients adopt the protocol.
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