diff --git a/crates/consensus/beacon/src/engine/mod.rs b/crates/consensus/beacon/src/engine/mod.rs
index 43f5b7f0bd..f206229c04 100644
--- a/crates/consensus/beacon/src/engine/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/consensus/beacon/src/engine/mod.rs
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ const MAX_INVALID_HEADERS: u32 = 512u32;
 
 /// The largest gap for which the tree will be used for sync. See docs for `pipeline_run_threshold`
 /// for more information.
-pub const MIN_BLOCKS_FOR_PIPELINE_RUN: u64 = 2 * EPOCH_SLOTS;
+pub const MIN_BLOCKS_FOR_PIPELINE_RUN: u64 = EPOCH_SLOTS;
 
 /// A _shareable_ beacon consensus frontend. Used to interact with the spawned beacon consensus
 /// engine.