Solana Counts Down To Alpenglow Upgrade With Faster Finality In Focus
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TL;DR: Solana is approaching its planned Alpenglow consensus upgrade, which targets transaction finality of roughly 150 milliseconds — a goal, not a guarantee of live-network performance. Solana’s next big technical change is scheduled for October 21. Alpenglow would replace the network’s existing consensus approach with a redesigned system intended to make transactions final far more quickly. The advertised target is about 150 milliseconds, compared with the multi-second finality associated with the current design. That’s a striking number, but it should be treated as an engineering objective. The real test comes when validators run the software under actual mainnet conditions.
Source: Bitcoinist
