Solana Greenlights Alpenglow, Its Most Explosive Upgrade Yet

Solana validators have overwhelmingly approved SIMD-0326 “Alpenglow,” a sweeping consensus rewrite that aims to cut transaction finality from roughly 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds—a 100x reduction that developers and observers are already calling the most consequential upgrade in the network’s history. According to the official tally shared via Solana Status, 98.27% of stake voted […]