We’re proposing pre-confirmations for Berachain to bring transaction inclusion times down from 2 seconds to ~200ms.
What this means:
- Near-instant transaction feedback for DeFi swaps, gaming, and other time-sensitive applications
- Better UX - users see their transactions included in under a second
- Opt-in system - choose fast inclusion or wait for standard finality
- No additional software for validators to run
- Chain continues normally if pre-confirmation system has any issues
Applications requiring absolute finality can continue using standard 2-second confirmations.
Proposal Link: BRIPs/meta/BRIP-0007.md at brip-0007-preconfs · berachain/BRIPs · GitHub
Feedback welcome.