Imagine the situation. I’m running an MEV bot on Ethereum. A block comes every 12 seconds. It takes 1.2 seconds for my transaction to reach the validator. During this pause, someone frontran the order book and snatched the arbitrage. I didn't lose because of my code. I lost simply because the network is slow
In DeFi, the order book hits a ceiling. Centralized exchanges update their order books in milliseconds. On-chain solutions take seconds. The difference is hundreds of folds. This is exactly why market makers stay on Binance and are in no hurry to move to DeFi
@get_optimum changes the game. Their mumP2P protocol on the Hoodi testnet shows an average latency of around 150 ms. Gossipsub in the same conditions takes about a second. With 10-megabyte blocks, mumP2P handles it in 1.3 seconds, while Gossipsub chokes and spikes to 15+ seconds
Validators receive blocks faster. They have more time for verification, fewer missed slots, and more reliable attestations. For stakers, this means more stable rewards. For DeFi, this is a real step toward allowing on-chain order books to compete with centralized platforms
Every extra second in the network is money that someone else managed to grab before me. Optimum eliminates that second.