Odaily Planet Daily reports that the Solana core dev team Anza has announced that the major consensus mechanism upgrade codenamed Alpenglow is now live on the community testnet. Validators can switch from the current Proof-of-Stake, Proof-of-History, and TowerBFT architecture to the new consensus framework within the test cluster.

This upgrade refactors the validator communication and block confirmation processes, shortening transaction finalization times and boosting network response efficiency. This test signifies that validators can now carry out the Alpenswitch migration in a live environment. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko previously stated that if testing goes smoothly, Alpenglow could be deployed to the mainnet as early as next quarter. (CoinDesk)