🎉Good news! Vitalik Buterin's latest article explores how Ethereum can provide faster transaction confirmation times. 🚀

In the article, Vitalik explains the Gasper consensus mechanism currently used by Ethereum, which uses a slot-and-epoch architecture, but its complexity and long finality confirmation time (12.8 minutes) are still problems. 😓

However, new practical options are being explored, such as single-slot finality (SSF). SSF uses a mechanism similar to Tendermint to allow blocks to be finalized before the next block is generated, while retaining the "inactivity leakage" mechanism to ensure the stable operation and recovery ability of the chain. 👍

But the challenge of SSF is that it will bring a lot of load to the chain, and new proposals (such as Orbit SSF) are working to solve this problem. 👏

Vitalik emphasized that the slot-and-epoch architecture is correct, but not all slot-and-epoch architectures are equal. He advocates a more comprehensive exploration of the design space to reduce transaction confirmation times and improve user experience. 😊

Vitalik said that L2 can currently adopt three strategies: First, both technically and spiritually, it is based on Ethereum, optimizing itself to convey the technical characteristics and values ​​of Ethereum; second, as a "server with blockchain Scaffold", by adding mechanisms such as validity proof and user rights protection, it can fully utilize server efficiency while obtaining benefits on the chain; third, a compromise strategy is adopted to build a fast chain consisting of one hundred nodes, with Ethereum providing interoperability and security. 🔥

The key question is to what extent we can optimize the slot-and-epoch architecture based on Ethereum's native, and whether this will affect the application space of other types of pre-confirmation mechanisms. At present, there is still uncertainty about the complexity of block proposers and the design space of slot-and-epoch architecture. Having more options will help better serve L1 and L2 users and simplify the work of L2 developers. 🌟