Solana’s Alpenglow Launches on Mainnet, Targets 99% Faster Finality
Solana’s first major consensus upgrade, Alpenglow, went live on mainnet around 1:54 pm UTC on Wednesday, according to the Solana Foundation’s Alpenglow dashboard. Alpenglow seeks to reduce transaction finality by 99%, to roughly 150 milliseconds from about 12.8 seconds, according to the Solana Foundation’s July announcement. The upgrade’s first phase, Votor, replaces the existing voting … Read more