diff --git a/cmd/node/config/config.toml b/cmd/node/config/config.toml
index ed93fbb82a2..a3f8b99c6ef 100644
--- a/cmd/node/config/config.toml
+++ b/cmd/node/config/config.toml
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@
 [EpochStartConfig]
     GenesisEpoch = 0
     MinRoundsBetweenEpochs = 20
-    RoundsPerEpoch         = 200
+    RoundsPerEpoch         = 100
     # Min and Max ShuffledOutRestartThreshold represents the minimum and maximum duration of an epoch (in percentage) after a node which
     # has been shuffled out has to restart its process in order to start in a new shard
     MinShuffledOutRestartThreshold = 0.05