Base activates Denim, cutting canonical block time to 200 milliseconds
Base has activated its Denim upgrade, increasing canonical block output tenfold while retiring the Flashblocks pre-confirmation system.
Base has activated its Denim upgrade, increasing canonical block output tenfold while retiring the Flashblocks pre-confirmation system. JUST (JST) is trading at $0.1416, up 0.3% since this brief published. This is an original TLT brief synthesising 2 outlets (Crypto Economy, Unchained), plus live market data, as of Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:00:04 UTC.
The upgrade changes how quickly Base can produce finalized blocks, directly affecting block-count-based applications and network capacity. Permanently ending Flashblocks also makes the new canonical production schedule central to how users and services operate on the network.
- Denim reduces canonical block time from two seconds to 200 milliseconds
- Base can now produce up to five canonical blocks per second
- Flashblocks pre-confirmations have been permanently retired
- Base TVL stands at $2.85B, up 4.7% over seven days
Crypto Economy and Unchained agree that Base activated Denim on Thursday and that the upgrade makes the network’s block cadence ten times faster. Crypto Economy provides the technical figures, reporting a reduction in canonical block generation time from two seconds to 200 milliseconds and capacity for as many as five blocks per second, while also noting that Flashblocks was permanently retired. Unchained adds that the switch occurred at 1 p.m. ET and highlights the practical effect on applications that count blocks rather than minutes; the outlets do not contradict each other but emphasize different aspects of the rollout.
Base activated its Denim upgrade on Thursday, introducing a substantially faster canonical block schedule. According to Crypto Economy, the change shortens block generation from two seconds to 200 milliseconds, a tenfold improvement that allows the network to produce as many as five complete blocks each second.
The upgrade also permanently retires Flashblocks, the pre-confirmation system that had provided earlier transaction visibility. Crypto Economy describes Denim as the eagerly awaited network improvement, while its timing reflects a material change to the base layer responsible for ordering and recording transactions.
Unchained reports that the transition took effect at 1 p.m. ET Thursday. Its framing focuses on the effect on software that measures time in blocks rather than minutes: after the switch, a block-counting timer reaches its limit ten times sooner than it did under the previous two-second cadence.
The change expands Base’s canonical throughput and simplifies its transaction-processing structure by ending a separate pre-confirmation layer. Applications built around block intervals will need to account for the shorter cadence, while the retirement of Flashblocks makes the new canonical process the network’s primary operating model.
DeFiLlama reports $2.85 billion in total value locked on Base, up 4.7% over seven days. The broader crypto market is broadly down, with total capitalization at $2.61 trillion, 
Bitcoin down 5.79% over 24 hours, and the Fear & Greed index at 28. In the supplied relevant-coin data, 
JUST trades at $0.141181, up 0.86% over 24 hours and 3.17% over seven days, with a $1.13 billion market capitalization.
Since this brief published about 2 hours ago, JUST (JST) has moved from $0.1412 to $0.1416 — +0.26%.
The chart plots JST's price: grey is the move before this brief published, the vertical dashed line marks the moment it published, the horizontal dashed line is the price then, and the coloured area is the move since — from TLT's market data (daily resolution). It shows what happened after the news, not that the news caused it; many factors move prices. Not financial advice.
At today's peer-to-peer rate, 1 JST ≈ ₦195.65 (about $0.1416), up 0.9% over 24 hours. The naira itself trades about 2.5% above the official rate on the P2P market, so a Nigerian buyer's effective cost differs from the headline dollar price.
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Base activates Denim, cutting canonical block time to 200 mi — questions & answers
How much faster are Base blocks after Denim?
Canonical block time fell from two seconds to 200 milliseconds, allowing Base to produce up to five blocks per second. That is a tenfold increase in block-generation speed.
What happened to Base’s Flashblocks system?
Crypto Economy reports that Denim permanently retired Flashblocks, the network’s pre-confirmation system, as part of the upgrade.
Which applications are most affected by the shorter blocks?
Unchained highlights applications that count blocks rather than minutes. Their timers now reach block-based limits ten times faster following the two-second-to-200-millisecond change.
How much is 1 JUST worth in naira today?
About ₦195.65 at the live peer-to-peer (P2P) USDT rate, which is what Nigerians typically trade at — equivalent to roughly $0.1416. The naira price moves with both JST's US-dollar price and the USDT/NGN rate; use our JUST in naira page for any amount.
Has JUST's price moved since this brief was published?
JST is up 0.26% since this brief first published — trading at $0.1416 now versus $0.1412 at publication. TLT re-checks this figure against CoinGecko and Binance every 15 minutes.
Which outlets reported this story?
This is an original TLT brief that synthesises reporting from Crypto Economy, Unchained, with the key figures cross-checked for agreement across them. It is not a copy of any one article — follow the source links above for the original reporting.
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