Solana officially launched Alpenglow yesterday—18 months in the making, it’s said. Transaction finality has gone from 12.8 seconds to just 150 milliseconds, with the switch completed in a single block. The governance vote passed with 98.27% support; the community is really united this time.
But $SOL ’s price… $106, down 10% in two weeks and still 64% below its all-time high. The disconnect between tech upgrades and token prices is nothing new. The logic this time is simple: the faster the chain gets, the more we need to see real traffic running on it.
Now we’ll be watching to see whether validators can run Agave 4.3 smoothly after the switch—let’s hope there are no unexpected outages. #Solana #Alpenglow
But $SOL ’s price… $106, down 10% in two weeks and still 64% below its all-time high. The disconnect between tech upgrades and token prices is nothing new. The logic this time is simple: the faster the chain gets, the more we need to see real traffic running on it.
Now we’ll be watching to see whether validators can run Agave 4.3 smoothly after the switch—let’s hope there are no unexpected outages. #Solana #Alpenglow