According to PANews, the Solana core development team Anza has proposed the 'Alpenglow' consensus protocol upgrade plan, aiming to reduce block confirmation time from 13 seconds to 0.1 seconds, increasing network speed by 100 times. This plan was designed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and has been supported by co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and others.
If approved through community governance voting, this largest protocol upgrade for Solana may be implemented between the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026. After the upgrade, the network will have real-time response capabilities comparable to Web2 infrastructure, supporting new application scenarios such as instant payments and gaming.
