Solana’s TPS Fell With Alpenglow – Votes Left the Count
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Key Takeaways Validator votes no longer count as Solana transactions Handover block: 649 vote transactions, then zero 844 of 1,701 first Alpenglow transactions failed Before-and-after TPS comparisons need identical filters The Solana Foundation’s upgrade documentation calls the drop in transaction counts and transactions per second, or TPS, “an accounting change, not a throughput regression.” That still leaves a question for anyone reading a Solana chart: did activity fall, or only the count? What Alpenglow took off the transaction list Under TowerBFT, the consensus system Solana ran until October 21, validators cast their votes as ordinary transactions.
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