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We're eager to share that since the merge in September 2022, Besu team improved Block processing performance by three times reaching a 95th percentile around 250 ms and 99th percentile around 500 ms on a solo staking hardware machine (AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz, 2TB WD Black SN850 NVMe).

A TL;DR is provided towards the bottom with our recommended staking configuration.

Besu block processing performance Profile

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