ESC BLOCK CADENCE / RESEARCH The measurements
ESC ←. A silver watch escapement with ruby pallets against black. Blocks move time forward.

THE ESCAPEMENT

Block cadence and ordering on a 101-millisecond chain.

101ms
CONTINUOUS ENERGY. DISCRETE TICKS.01 / CADENCE

A DIFFERENT MACHINE

Ten blocks a second is a different machine.

Tick drift, intra-block position, and what one slot of lateness costs.

01 / CADENCE

~9.88 blocks/sec

Measured over 5M blocks. The observed rhythm of the chain, beyond its nominal 101 ms block time.

02 / ORDERING

logIndex

Intra-block position via logIndex. Tracking event order inside a block, where the block timestamp alone is not enough.

03 / LATENESS

Delay distribution

Measuring the spread of delays and tick drift. Looking at what one slot of lateness costs, beyond a single average.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Concept stage.
The measurements are live,
the product is not.

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