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Solana sets Oct. 21 for Alpenglow upgrade targeting 150-millisecond finality

Solana has scheduled Oct. 21 for Alpenglow, a major upgrade aimed at making transactions irreversible in roughly 150 milliseconds by changing how the computers running the network agree on payments. The updated timetable published by the Solana Foundation sets a date for replacing TowerBFT, the… Read More

Solana’s 150-millisecond settlement upgrade reaches second public test network

2 months ago by Crypto InsightsCrypto

Alpenglow changes how validators, the computers that check transactions, agree on the network’s records. They will exchange votes directly instead of recording those votes as transactions inside blocks, the batches of transactions added to the blockchain. Agreement can then take one or two voting rounds.… Read More