Solana is aiming to cut finality to around 150 milliseconds—starting October 21.
The Alpenglow upgrade is officially scheduled: it will replace the current voting mechanism with certificate-based consensus, with the goal of bringing transaction finality down to ~150 ms. This isn’t a minor patch—it’s a major overhaul of the consensus layer.
Public blockchains have been competing on speed for a long time. This time, the focus is directly on perceived latency. For people farming on-chain and trading, faster confirmations could also change the window for front-running.
Which matters more to you: confirmation speed, or whether the upgrade might go wrong?
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The Alpenglow upgrade is officially scheduled: it will replace the current voting mechanism with certificate-based consensus, with the goal of bringing transaction finality down to ~150 ms. This isn’t a minor patch—it’s a major overhaul of the consensus layer.
Public blockchains have been competing on speed for a long time. This time, the focus is directly on perceived latency. For people farming on-chain and trading, faster confirmations could also change the window for front-running.
Which matters more to you: confirmation speed, or whether the upgrade might go wrong?
#币安广场 $ETH