🏎️💨SOLANA MIRĄ FINALITY TESTING ON PENGUNA 15× Ả TIME FINALITY IN 150 MILLISECONDS
A Solana▸$SOL ▸is testing one of the biggest consensus changes in its history.
Alpenglow is already running on testnet and devnet, and aims to reduce the transaction finality time from:
12.8 seconds → ~150 milliseconds
That represents approximately 85x less waiting time.
But pay attention: We’re talking about finality, not just the time it takes for a transaction to show up on the network.
Finality is when the operation is considered practically irreversible.
This matters especially for 👇
⚡ Payments
🏦 Deposits on exchanges
🌉 Bridges
📈 DeFi and on-chain markets
Today, Solana uses TowerBFT, which records validator votes within the blockchain itself.
Alpenglow introduces the Votor.
Instead of placing every vote in blocks, validators can exchange votes directly and reach consensus in one or two rounds.
In practice, the ambition is to bring the blockchain experience closer to the speed perceived in traditional financial systems.
But there is one fundamental caveat:
⚠️ 150 ms is still a goal
This performance still needs to be sustained under real mainnet conditions, and no definitive date has been announced for full Alpenglow activation on the main network.
If it works in production, the discussion about Solana $SOL p’s speed could change scale.
💭A blockchain with finality in 150 ms starts to compete with traditional financial infrastructure?
#solana #sol #defi
A Solana▸$SOL ▸is testing one of the biggest consensus changes in its history.
Alpenglow is already running on testnet and devnet, and aims to reduce the transaction finality time from:
12.8 seconds → ~150 milliseconds
That represents approximately 85x less waiting time.
But pay attention: We’re talking about finality, not just the time it takes for a transaction to show up on the network.
Finality is when the operation is considered practically irreversible.
This matters especially for 👇
⚡ Payments
🏦 Deposits on exchanges
🌉 Bridges
📈 DeFi and on-chain markets
Today, Solana uses TowerBFT, which records validator votes within the blockchain itself.
Alpenglow introduces the Votor.
Instead of placing every vote in blocks, validators can exchange votes directly and reach consensus in one or two rounds.
In practice, the ambition is to bring the blockchain experience closer to the speed perceived in traditional financial systems.
But there is one fundamental caveat:
⚠️ 150 ms is still a goal
This performance still needs to be sustained under real mainnet conditions, and no definitive date has been announced for full Alpenglow activation on the main network.
If it works in production, the discussion about Solana $SOL p’s speed could change scale.
💭A blockchain with finality in 150 ms starts to compete with traditional financial infrastructure?
#solana #sol #defi
