In this talk, we deep-dive into the the Fast L1 North Star of the Strawmap, and present a credible path to bringing Ethereum finality from minutes toward seconds. Decoupled Consensus offers a path to a 4x faster voting round and future flexibility; we show why one-round finality could be the next major step, present two new results that make it safer and more usable for Ethereum, and map how consensus, networking, and consolidation combine in finality.watch, a new tool to track finality updates.