Solana Votes on Alpenglow Upgrade to Cut Block Finality from 12.8s to 150ms
Solana validators are voting on SIMD-0326, a major protocol overhaul that would replace the current TowerBFT consensus mechanism with Alpenglow, a new system promising to reduce block finality from 12.8 seconds to as low as 100-150 milliseconds. The proposal introduces direct voting, signature aggregation, and a 1.6 SOL per epoch Validator Admission Ticket fee to […]
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