Changes to “Expiry and timestamps”
#122 (zoobc.how, 2026-10-26 21:37 UTC) → #837 (zoobc.how, 2026-10-26 22:31 UTC): Seed article updated
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- so is a block that carries a transaction dated more than 3,600 seconds after the block.
+ Some settlements happen by themselves, block by block: [[escrow]] deadlines, the completion of [[liquid-payments]], [[scheduled-transfers]] falling due, the expiry of orders resting on a market and the phases of the fee vote. These read the previous block's timestamp, not the block's own. A producer therefore cannot stamp its block a little ahead of time to pull a payout into it.
− Some settlements happen by themselves, block by block: [[escrow]] deadlines, the completion of [[liquid-payments]], [[scheduled-transfers]] falling due, the expiry of market orders and the phases of the fee vote. These read the previous block's timestamp, not the block's own. A producer therefore cannot stamp its block a little ahead of time to pull a payout into it.
How blocks are spaced in time is explained in [[blocks-and-time]].
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