Near Instant Transfers Now Possible on Ethereum Mainnet

Ethereum transactions can now be preconfirmed in only a fraction of a second with new tech from an Ethereum infrastructure platform.

Primev says its FAST RPC (Distant Process Name) permits transactions to be preconfirmed and set for inclusion in blocks in beneath 200ms — enabling every thing from Ether (ETH) transfers and interacting with good contracts to minting non-fungible tokens (NFTs) at “blazing velocity.”

Preconfirmation is an early sign from a block builder indicating a transaction will doubtless be included within the subsequent block, whereas block inclusion refers to a transaction being added right into a block.

RPCs like FAST RPC join crypto wallets to blockchain nodes, enabling customers to ship transactions and work together with decentralized purposes onchain.

From the person’s perspective 200ms might theoretically rival high-speed layer 1 blockchains like Sui, the place transactions are often confirmed inside 200ms.

Primev’s founder, Murat Akdeniz, posted a reside demonstration to X on Monday, displaying a near-instant ETH switch through Ethereum self-custody pockets MetaMask, which he said was preconfirmed in 377ms and included in the identical block.

Akdeniz mentioned his workforce has been working for greater than two years to “supercharge Ethereum” to those speeds.

Ethereum L1 is painfully sluggish 😩

Can devs PLEASE repair this?!?

For two+ years, the @primev workforce has been grinding to supercharge Ethereum mainnet.

At this time: MILLISECOND preconfirmations… ON L1! 🚀watch me ship ETH blazing quick on this 18s vid pic.twitter.com/Diao4VfHzT

— Murat | lordofcoins.eth (@MuratLite) October 20, 2025

FAST RPC hasn’t been examined at scale

Essentially the most extensively used RPCs on Ethereum are Infura and Alchemy’s answer, which, whereas slower than Primev’s FAST RPC, have a a lot bigger node distribution and have been battle-tested beneath a lot heavier community masses.