⛓️ $SOL is preparing a revolutionary network upgrade.
Solana unveiled Alpenglow, Solana's new consensus protocol. Alpenglow is a consensus protocol designed for a global high-performance proof-of-stake blockchain. They also stated that the release of Alpenglow will be a game changer for Solana.
Move to Alpenglow in Solana, team say goodbye to a number of deprecated components of the core protocol, notably TowerBFT and Proof-of-History.
With TowerBFT, Solana had about 12.8 seconds from block creation to block finalization. To reduce the delay to less than a second, Solana introduced the concept of “optimistic confirmation”. Solana expects Alpenglow to be able to achieve actual finality in about 150 ms (median).
A median latency of 150ms doesn't just mean that Solana is fast - it means that Solana can compete with Web2 infrastructure in terms of responsiveness, potentially making blockchain technology viable for entirely new categories of applications requiring real-time performance.
