Solana activated Alpenglow, its biggest consensus upgrade since 2020.
Transaction confirmation time has dropped from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. Nearly 99% faster.
Let’s talk a little about it:
It replaces TowerBFT with Votor:
Validator votes move off-chain and are aggregated into certificates. The block is finalized in 1 or 2 rounds.
The result: transactions become irreversible almost instantly.
Key benefits:
1. Better UX for payments, DEXs, and trading
2. More block space (no on-chain votes)
3. 60% lower validator costs, around 0.8 $SOL
Live migration without restarting the network:
Execution and fees remain unchanged; it just becomes much faster and safer.
Alpenglow is already live on mainnet 🚀
Always bullish on #Solana 🚀
Solana is on another level 🚀
Transaction confirmation time has dropped from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. Nearly 99% faster.
Let’s talk a little about it:
It replaces TowerBFT with Votor:
Validator votes move off-chain and are aggregated into certificates. The block is finalized in 1 or 2 rounds.
The result: transactions become irreversible almost instantly.
Key benefits:
1. Better UX for payments, DEXs, and trading
2. More block space (no on-chain votes)
3. 60% lower validator costs, around 0.8 $SOL
Live migration without restarting the network:
Execution and fees remain unchanged; it just becomes much faster and safer.
Alpenglow is already live on mainnet 🚀
Always bullish on #Solana 🚀
Solana is on another level 🚀