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• Because each Stacks block is anchored to a Bitcoin block through the Proof-of-Transfer consensus mechanism, Stacks is necessarily limited to the same block times as the Bitcoin network. Microblocks allow the Stacks blockchain to perform state transitions between anchor blocks.

• Microblocks are a powerful mechanism for developers to create performant, high quality applications on Stacks, while still inheriting the security of Bitcoin.

• elected block leaders can produce blocks on the Stacks blockchain either by batching transactions or by streaming them. Microblocks are the product of the streaming model.

• Microblocks allow the Stacks blockchain to perform state transitions between anchor blocks.

• the leader selects transactions from the mempool and package them into microblocks during the current epoch

• Microblocks are blocks of transactions included by a miner after the previous anchor block has been mined

• Transactions included in microblocks are processed by the network: their results are known.

• The state of microblock transactions should be carefully communicated to users. No transaction is final until it's included in an anchor block, and your application design should reflect this.