A leading public blockchain has announced a major upgrade plan. On January 14th next year, the Fermi hard fork will go live. What are the core changes? Block time will be directly cut from the current level to 0.45 seconds. What does this number mean? It essentially aligns with the performance benchmarks of Ethereum and Solana, completely dispelling market doubts about its throughput.

From the user perspective, the most immediate benefit—DeFi interaction speed skyrockets, transaction confirmation delays significantly decrease, and capital flow efficiency improves accordingly. For traders sensitive to ms-level delays, this is a productivity tool upgrade. High-frequency trading and GameFi projects have been seeking platforms with higher performance ceilings. This upgrade is likely to attract them to migrate gradually. The expansion of on-chain ecosystems usually also provides technical support for native tokens.

But don’t get too optimistic. Major actions like hard forks are inevitably prone to glitches during implementation, and short-term network fluctuations are foreseeable. For investors planning to allocate DeFi protocol tokens within the ecosystem before and after the upgrade, price volatility around mid-January warrants close attention—opportunities often come with risks.