Solana’s Next Latency Idea Has a Geographic Trade-Off Validators Cannot Ignore
TL;DR: Research into a geo-aware leader schedule suggests quicker validator handovers, but also warns that grouping leaders by location introduces security trade-offs. Solana’s push for lower latency is moving beyond shorter slots. A new study of SIMD-0675 considers rearranging its validator leader schedule so that consecutive leaders are more likely to be geographically close, reducing…