Core Protocolepoch
Epoch
A period of 432,000 slots (approximately 2-3 days) that defines a staking cycle. At each epoch boundary, the leader schedule is recalculated based on stake weights, stake activations/deactivations take effect, and inflation rewards are distributed to validators and delegators.
Related terms
3Core Protocol
Slot
A time window during which a designated leader validator can produce a block. Each slot lasts approximately 400 millisec...
Core Protocol
Leader Schedule
A deterministic mapping of slots to validators for an entire epoch, computed from stake weights. Validators with more st...
Network
Stake-Weighted QoS (SWQoS)
A Quality of Service system introduced in Solana that allocates TPU packet bandwidth to staked validators proportionally...