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Oct 22, 2026, 8:14 a.m. EDT3 min readEthereum’s four-minute settlement plan could lower the cost of moving crypto. (Ethereum)SummaryEthereum researchers have proposed cutting transaction finality from about 16 minutes to roughly four minutes, though the unfinished plan has no activation date. Faster finality could reduce costs for cross-chain transfer services by allowing them to recover and reuse funds more quickly. The proposal would separate validators’ block-selection and finality votes, potentially enabling further speed gains and an eventual shift to quantum-resistant signatures. Ethereum researchers want to cut the wait for a transaction to become final from about 16 minutes to roughly four, a change that could make it cheaper to move money between blockchains. Ben Edgington, who coordinates Ethereum’s fast-finality research, filed the draft Wednesday with fellow researchers Francesco D’Amato, Roberto Saltini, Yann Vonlanthen and Mikhail Kalinin. Its initial target is a four-fold improvement, though the design is unfinished and has no activation date.

Shares in International Business Machines declined 5% in Thursday’s premarket trading as investors digested the company’s third-quarter results.

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