The Solana team introduced Alpenglow — a new consensus protocol that will replace TowerBFT and Proof-of-History. Developers claim that this is the largest change in the project's history.
Now:
- blocks will be finalized in just 100–150 ms;
- data will be transmitted directly between nodes, without gossip;
- the new voting logic will allow for faster confirmations even with reduced validator activity.
According to Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, Alpenglow brings the project closer to the speed of Web2 infrastructure and makes it suitable for real-time applications.
